On ‘alone with you in the ether’ by Olivie Blake I’ve been shocked, hell, bamboozled even, by my unexpected enjoyment of this book. Yes, of course, the quotes jump out at me and strike a resonant chord. But it’s the story, the characters — Aldo and Reagan — that roped me in to their seemingly tennis match of a relationship. In all their mess, it was the tenderness of understanding love, of being wholly seen and not ashamed to be. It was the interesting discussion and analysis of time and…