The Unkindness of Ghosts

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I love plot based fiction by the way. Just like this do more to teach you how to read them than like kind of traditional genre fiction might. Where it's just like the character what you're really there is to get a strong sense of character and maybe a MacGuffin. Like I just I just read the unkindness of ghosts book and right from the outset that book is telling you a lot about like I'm a sci-fi book I take place on a space station like I hear our things. Sure.

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material.

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