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Title: Disappointed . . .
Review: The reviews of this book were generally favorable but after I finished reading it I was dissatisfied. The book is not a novel in the traditional sense; rather, it's a group of loosely connected short stories that add up to less than the sum of their parts. Boyd is a decent writer -- I have no complaints about her style -- but her book had almost no impact on me; when I was done with it, I had to go back and reread parts of it to refresh my memory of what I had read. Not a good sign for me of a memorable book.
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