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Title: Wish I could return this one
Review: but I made the mistake of reading it at the beach. On the plus side, it won't take much of your time. On the (far more significant) minus side, it feels both ill-conceived/tossed together and over-worked ... if that is possible. A dreadfully disappointing book: I expected and hoped for an evocative exploration of marriage -- its joys and sadnesses. Apparently Ms. Carson conceives of marriage as a long-distance, sporadic "relationship" between a static, if not paralyzed, woman and a beautiful (we are told, not shown) cad. Skip it, skip it, skip it!Re-read the book after reading some of these positive reviews ... I thought maybe I'd missed something. I didn't. Will try some of her other work to see why so many are giving her so much credit ... Meanwhile, the emperor is in clear danger of an indecency citation.
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