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As much as I love reading series out of order, for reasons of "laziness," it is also not the best way to consume content, for reasons of "it's always worse that way."

While I've heard amazing things about the second installment of this trilogy (The Cost of Living), and I'll probably read it someday, this one just...did not work for me.

I wasn't in the right space for this book and coming into it at book 3, on a subject I feel most disconnected from, is odd. I'm 24 years old and I live in America and the chances of myself ever owning real estate are somewhere between the chance I win the lottery and the chance I sprout wings and fly to Neverland.

Reading reviews of this and trying to figure out what I was missing, I found a lot of Deborah Levy devotees, which was a very surreal experience considering I have never heard of her to this point. I swear I'll remedy it, but as of now, I still have no answers re: what I was missing. It felt like Googling the answer to a question and finding every result was in a language I couldn't identify.

That being said, there is a lot of good stuff here, and the connection between real estate / property and the patriarchy is done well (even if I tend to find basic feminist rhetoric like this unsatisfying sometimes. Get more radical!).

But if I never see words "best male friend" again it'll be too soon.

Bottom line: Not you, book, me! I think.


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pre-review

hate to use a cliché, but...sometimes "it's not you, it's me" just applies.

review to come / 3ish

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currently-reading updates

starting a series at book 3 just to feel something

(thanks to the publisher for the copy)

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