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Milkman by Anna Burns
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Liked it, rather than loved it. Seems like it took me forever to read it. It's interesting reading other reviews complain about the lack of proper names for the characters. Not only did that not bother me, I thought it was one of the more interesting and successful devices employed by Burns in this novel. I also enjoyed the surprising amount of subtle humor woven throughout. I wish we had gotten more of the story of "First Brother" and his love affair with "Tablet-Girl's Sister" and this concept of the "wrong spouse". For me, that was an intriguing vignette and I would have happily followed that thread a bit further. The ending didn't blow me away although I suspect, perhaps, that there was some profound symbolism that went over my head and if I had got it I would screaming BRILLIANT!
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Reading Progress

July 27, 2019 – Shelved as: to-read
July 27, 2019 – Shelved
October 1, 2020 – Started Reading
October 10, 2020 –
page 110
31.25%
October 16, 2020 –
page 215
61.08%
October 22, 2020 –
page 302
85.8% ""Her glee - not so much either, that sickening triumphant glee that some people get who certainly deserve to have their faces slapped, but the glee of someone who finds herself alive for an instant in all the awfulness when her usual condition was to feel completely dead - well, that glee ceased, as I knew it would, for I had got her where I wanted her, right at her center.""
October 25, 2020 – Finished Reading

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