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Full disclosure, I’ve had this book with me since grade 11. We were required to write a report on a book of our choosing, picked from a list. I picked Dispatches. Its synopsis intrigued me the most from all the other titles, which included classics. I did not read it at all. I Sparknotes’d the paper. This book resurfaced recently as it was described to me as “the most poetic book written about modern war.”

Having read Normal People, I enjoy the yearning in Sally Rooney’s prose. It’s sensual, and frank when it wants to be. I’m also struck by Rooney’s ability to capture the selfishness in depressives. While it’s an ordeal that deserves all the sympathies, we’re not completely off the hook.