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Love and Other Consolation Prizes
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Start date
April 1, 2018
Finish date
June 30, 2018
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Tasha
3.5

This is an interesting story but I wasn't as captured by it as I was with Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Really interesting history and lots of peeks into a bygone time, I especially enjoyed reading about the 1st AYP fair. For whatever reason, I just never fully connected with any of the characters.
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Celia
This book was a slow starter for me. In fact, when I was reading some discussion questions, I could not answer the first question. It asked a question about what happened in Chapter 2 and I could not remember what Chapter 2 was about!! When I re-read it, I could see why I forgot. The subject matter was painful to remember.

But like all historical fiction that I read, this one did eventually grab me.

Love and Other Consolation Prizes largely revolves around two World's Fairs that took place in Sea
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Sarah Brown
Jul 29, 2023 marked it as going-back-to  ·  review of another edition