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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9811.Difficult_Loves?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Difficult Loves" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166064842m/9811.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9811.Difficult_Loves?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Difficult Loves</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/155517.Italo_Calvino">Italo Calvino</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2910072?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>why do i keep trying with calvino? i react the same way EVERY TIME. i really like where his books/stories start, and there's ideas and details and sentences which i love and i get all excited thinking this time will be different, that once everything goes all surreal i will still care... but no. he loses me every time. i've tried following other readers' advice and read these stories backwards and out of order, as if that would make a difference, but it hasn't. so i give up. i'm done. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32981?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>