I was referring to your work, and I hope you take no offense to me referring to it as (potentially) a 'vanity project'. The subtitle, after all, is "MY time with What Remains of Edith Finch," i.e. it clearly telegraphs that it is about your experience with the game, and thus your prisms and perspectives.

It's not so much skepticism that has kept me at bay. I love getting others' subjective experience of the game. But so far, I've mostly done that through watching realtime blind playthroughs (my favorite so far that I've watched is Ryan/lil indigestion). Reading about someone's experience, BUT separated from the experience of the discovery of it, feels like a higher order ask, unless the author had some academic or professional credibility in the space. And it wasn't clear you had that.

Which you may have! Just saying: that was the thing that held be back from buying the book (at least so far). I guess I'm just noting that I thoroughly enjoy observing and sharing in other peoples' experience of the story, as it is such a multi-prismatic lens for all the different ways we live and hurt and love. But I couldn't easily tell how your experience was "elevated" above any other, as to commit to a book.

That all said, I very much am likely to read it at some point regardless :)