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Ep 603 - Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

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How to Read a Book That's Fragmented

When I was reading some of the reviews of this book I thought it was even more fragmentary than it sounds like it is. All the fragments are like grouped thematically inside of chapters mostly. It's one of those books that you need a few chapters to get into the rhythm of it and the voice of it or recalibrate your expectations for what the book is going to be like. You know 10, 20% of it with my expectations recalibrated so I can appreciate it more instead of just trying to figure it outYou know what I mean. Ponyville, Buenavut, Joseph Campbell here we go.

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