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Does anyone have any idea what the author would choose to write this book without any quotation marks?

Amy I normally won't read a book with no quotation marks... I wait until I can listen to it on audiobook. This one was for my book club so I forced myself…moreI normally won't read a book with no quotation marks... I wait until I can listen to it on audiobook. This one was for my book club so I forced myself to read it (and I did enjoy it) but it bugged me the entire time. This kind of cutesy approach to punctuation takes me out of the "flow" I'm normally in when reading a story -- I'm concentrating on, "wait, did someone say that or is that narrative?" instead of getting lost in the story.(less)

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