Janá?ek wrote quite simply and clearly. His wife, in a section of the memoirs mentioned in the book, stated that it might of been because Stösslová was not well educated. Her letters were harder to read due to a lack of puncuation and easily followable thought. Imagine reading letters by a twelve year old or something. (Thankfully the editor saved us from the myriad spelling mistakes).

But overall it was easy to follow, the biggest issue was it did drag quite a bit at some points, because he wrote to her everyday and there were whole months of letters that breached the same topics over and over again.