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alana
Aug 15, 2015 rated it really liked it
After reading The Opposite of Loneliness, I thought I should wait a bit and digest it before reviewing...but really I should know myself better. Now I've gone and forgotten at least half of what I wanted to say.

I'd heard the title of this book causing a stir when it first came out, but I had no idea that was related to the fact the young author had died in a car accident days after graduating from Yale. The title of the book comes from her commencement speech which is...painful to read in light ...more
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Elizabeth
Jan 20, 2017 rated it liked it
Mixed opinions on this one -- there's no doubt that Marina Keegan had a lot of talent. I enjoyed her essays and non-fiction much more than her fiction. The essays 'Why We Care About Whales' and 'The Art of Observation' contain interesting ideas around writing and compassion. She shows great understanding and hopefulness about her own generation.

I did find her fiction to be less well-developed than her essays, they tended to focus on relationships and offered a fairly limited (privileged view) p ...more
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