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Jun 17, 2017
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I first read this when I was about 15, and have just finished rereading the copy I annotated back then (which is an interesting experience in itself!). I love it, and possibly more than I did at the time, though I enjoyed it then. It's clever and lighthearted, while also managing to acknowlegde people's complexities and difficulties. Just like the narrator, it is very consciously naive, but in a way that I feel works well and doesn't grate too badly. Smith was clearly very influenced by Austen a
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