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I usually try to reserve my comments until I finish but I need to put this down before I forget.

I would beg to differ that this is a novel about friendship

One of my bookish pet peeves - characters developing unexplainable obsessions with another character/thing/concept for seemingly no reason

Ruth is so, so passive

I don’t know how I feel about a lot of books masquerading as “friendship books” when really they are books about repressed desire. Those are two separate things in my view