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AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

Waugh pits the stifling values of Catholicism and English aristocracy against bisexual bohemian whimsy; love of God and country versus love for beauty and life. The author seems to think he has written the triumph of Catholicism. I, the reader, and therefore the deciding party on the matter, disagree.
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what's the point of telling the story from three perspectives if I can't tell any of the narrators apart?? 
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Phenomenal collection! Each bite-size essay, with its distinct voice, shifts perspectives and reframes cultural concepts like time, heritage, and independence in ways I've never considered. 
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The inherent eroticism of leaving half the encounter in the ellipsis, the em-dash, the white space between section breaks. 
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AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

The problem with suspending the reveal until the very end is that it also suspends any interesting questions and meaningful conversations raised by the reveal, such as "wtf was he THINKING" or "what is WRONG with you"