The first time I read this book was in the middle of last week. And I found it maddening, confusing, impossible, and pedantic but I finished it. The second was over the past couple days when I found it delightful, engrossing, fascinating, and insightful. Both are right and neither are right and if you can get over how oddly profound and thoughtful every single character seems to be about their own lives, this might all start to make sense. But you'd still be wrong. Four stars.
"Outline" by Rachel Cusk (2015)
I really enjoyed this story the first time I ran into it, when it was called "My Dinner with Andre". Three stars.
"Kudos" by Rachel Cusk (2018)
Book three of The Outline Trilogy. Was this whole thing a meditation on femininity the entire time? Featuring a main character whom you barely ever see? If so, wow. Four stars.