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A review by askylark
Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
3.0
I don't even know where I found this book. It suddenly appeared on my ipad. I must have ordered it, but from where and on whose recommendation, I cannot remember.
I like books about nothing. I really do. But this book, this book is TRULY about nothing. I read it out, only because I kept thinking that something must happen, surely. Debut authors do not get published these days with books like this. But really, nothing happens. A young woman moves into her father's home after his death to grieve. She is given, as executor of his will, rights over his poetry. Will she publish it or not? She is an unknowable, unlikable person. The writing is good, intimate, conversational. But being as she is a young woman, she is not very insightful. So bizarre. How did this get published?
I like books about nothing. I really do. But this book, this book is TRULY about nothing. I read it out, only because I kept thinking that something must happen, surely. Debut authors do not get published these days with books like this. But really, nothing happens. A young woman moves into her father's home after his death to grieve. She is given, as executor of his will, rights over his poetry. Will she publish it or not? She is an unknowable, unlikable person. The writing is good, intimate, conversational. But being as she is a young woman, she is not very insightful. So bizarre. How did this get published?