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Title: baggott's poetry is better
Review: I'm afraid this novel didn't work for me. The characters were flat and it felt cliche. The biggest annoyance, however, was the way Baggott recycled her images from her poetry. While I was reading Girl Talk, I was also reading her book of poems This County of Mothers. While the images in the poems were fresh and surprising, when I discovered them nearly word for word in her novel I felt cheated; that was a cheap shot.
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