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“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

February 8, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Ooof. This book is slight, but it packs a wallop. I felt like I was reading through someone’s diary. It was as if the diary was left open with a READ ME sign glowing in neon above, but it was still so personal that I had to keep sneaking furtive glances over my shoulder to make sure that the diary’s owner wouldn’t walk in to find me poring over her every thought and feeling. When our narrator “I secretly hope that I might be a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: creative life, entropy, Fiction, Jenny Offill, Marriage, Motherhood, Quick read, short fiction, vignette

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: creative life, entropy, Fiction, Jenny Offill, Marriage, Motherhood, Quick read, short fiction, vignette ·
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    Practically every sentence is a joke omg, I recently finished a book like this. Hated it.
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