Status Updates From Upstate

I find it shocking that a book purported to be about people who love books would so glorify the act of ripping covers off of those books to use as a decor

This book is trying way too hard to be too many things. Or rather to discuss too many things. Honestly, every possible windmill is being tilted at

This is the second book in a row I have read that leans on letters from the past to vomit up exposition in the guise a character retelling their loved one their own story. I find it highly annoying.