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Title: The Last Time I Will Read Anita Shreve
Review: Self absorbed, poignant, pretentious, plenty of Catholic angst, details that move boringly slow, nuance in the mundane - not at all my kind of book. Linda is a woman who seems to have given up on life when she hit middle age, who orders food over and over again to not eat it. She meets a former lover at a literary convention, and maybe things will pick up? [Hint: don't count on it.] In hindsight, the italicized speech and italicized thoughts make a little more sense - but were annoying and rather affected. And, yes, the ending is a very contemptible, condescending trick and renders the book insignificant.
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