Book historians allergic to metafiction: what's your go-to response when friends keep kindly recommending works of metafiction? (or am I the only #bookhistory person around who hates #metafiction, be it highbrow or lowbrow as long as it's not #TristramShandy?)

Our lives today exist in multiple dimensions: the present, the past, and online. Sterne’s novel might help us to make sense of this tangle. Reading #TristramShandy for the third time, I realized that my previous frustration was not a failure to understand the book. Sterne’s digressions are both rich and unsatisfying in equal measure. But whilst trawling the internet often leaves me drained or feeling numbed by variety, Sterne’s novel invigorates as it overwhelms ... https://lithub.com/reading-tristram-shandy-in-an-age-of-distraction/