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This will go on my list of "most boring books I've ever read." So many pages of inner dialogue (boring), introspection (who cares), and scenarios that went nowhere, and the ending... well if you have trouble sleeping go ahead and start this, guaranteed to make you snooze.
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My initial reaction to picking up a novel about an American academic living in England, written by an American academic living in England, was that it definitely wasn't for me. I generally don't like fiction involving academia, not do I generally care for fiction where the protagonist and author's biographies overlap too much. But once I cracked the spine and read a few pages, the writing swept me up. It's hard to put a finger on the particulars, but this is writing that manages the odd trick of
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Jan 15, 2017
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Chantal
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