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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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ablasich's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

This book defies description. The nameless faceless character is any one of us and absolutely someone you may know. Definitely a tale told in 2 parts.
I almost put this book down part way through the first half. The jumbled and hectic style didn’t make sense to me. Small nuggets of insight and humor kept me going and I’m glad I did.
I don’t want to give spoilers for the second half but it does get REAL and delivers and emotional gut punch. Check content warnings if you are triggered by topics. By the end, this book will leave you with a confusing mix of awe and sadness.

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tealord's review

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sad

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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sineaderoo's review

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emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

This begins as a funny, cheeky, fragmented wander through online life and turns into something quite different half way through when the reality of real life family tragedy forces our protagonist into offline life in a new way.
Written in a mixture of beautiful poetic prose and meme banality, this made me laugh out loud and cry in public.
The most effective attempt I've read to capture what the endless scroll feels like in a book.

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ovenbird_reads's review

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challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This is really two books. Part one and part two are only vaguely related in the sense that part one is life "in the portal" of social media and part 2 is what happens when the full catastrophe--the beauty, grief, unfathomable depths--of life comes to pull you out of the portal to live in true community with the people you love who are facing the impossible.

So much of this felt like genius. Although I was losing my way towards the end of part one. I was gripped again on part 2 where the hard realness of the world asserts itself again.

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