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No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

April 29, 2021 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

I knew nothing about this book when I bought it. I saw it on a list of new releases, thought the cover looked kind of cool, and added it to my cart from my local book store. I had never heard of Patricia Lockwood, had no idea what kind of writer she was (SPOILER ALERT: I STILL DON’T REALLY KNOW), and didn’t know anything about the plot. I started it, struggled hard with the format and writing style, and put it down. The streaming train […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, no one is talking about this, Patricia Lockwood, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, no one is talking about this, Patricia Lockwood, Scootsa1000 ·
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No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood (2021)

No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood

March 9, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

I really loved this book. It keeps getting called a book about “being extremely online” and while that’s kind of true, it obscures what the book is really doing (in the first half, leading to the second half). The book is not “about” being extremely online, but is narrating the experience of being essentially addicted to being online. Well, no. It’s about trying to narrate the experience of having your brain having been rewritten by internet communication to the point at which, while you’re incredibly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: no one is talking about this, Patricia Lockwood

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:89 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: no one is talking about this, Patricia Lockwood ·
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