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Coree Brown Swan's avatar

Thank you, thank you, for being a fellow academic who reads loads of fiction! My colleagues post their Christmas break reading and it just looks like work. Give me a fat novel which takes me to another time or place please, not more non-fiction. You have to read Patricia Lockwood's "No One is Talking About This", it was weird and very online and stunning and heartbreaking. I sat in the garden silently weeping and then loudly weeping when I couldn't contain it any longer. Good for a long weekend when you want to feel all the feels.

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Allison Daminger's avatar

Ha, I feel you, Coree! Funnily enough, I JUST finished the Lockwood book over this past weekend. Your assessment is totally spot on. It's the perfect read-in-one-sitting novel.

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