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Moriarty inserts the pandemic into the final chapters of the book. Does that totally break the mood for anyone else? Pretty much ruined the ending for me.

kim I felt like it added to the story. Yes, it set the story in a time to give relevancy, but that wasn't necessary. But what it did do for the story was …moreI felt like it added to the story. Yes, it set the story in a time to give relevancy, but that wasn't necessary. But what it did do for the story was to give an easy transition. At the beginning we learned that Joy and Stan were having trouble adjusting to retirement and the slow pace of life. With the pandemic, their struggle was normalized—everyone was learning to live with the slow pace and isolation. The story could have been written without the pandemic, and it would have been fine, but I think the pandemic did add to the story.(less)

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Teresa Bolster Certainly masks normalised in Australia. No one would look at you twice if you were wearing a surgical mask from March 2020 onwards: a year previously ...more
May 25, 2022 06:05PM · flag

Judith The controversy isn't about Covid, it's a literary discussion about Moriarty ruining a great fiction story with the intrusion of the pandemic at the e ...more
May 26, 2022 08:04AM · flag

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