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+- gr_id: 4155602198
+  title: The Course of Love
+  author: Alain de Botton 
+  rating: 4
+  read: 2024/11/07
+  review: "This was my walking book for the year — when I’d go on a walk, Alain de Botton would teach me a 
+  little bit about relationships. It’s very softly written, anecdotally, and not at all patronizing. 
+  I think we would all be slightly better partners if everyone internalized this book."
+- gr_id: 6910087052
+  title: The Ministry of Time
+  author: Kaliane Bradley
+  rating: 3
+  read: 2024/11/05
+  review: "This was a cute, light read. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, so if you’re looking for hard time-travel 
+  sci fi, this isn’t for you. Everything else is in the jacket summary, and I won’t try to rewrite it. Additonally, my 
+  dog would like to give this book 5 stars; I assume she liked it because I caught her chewing on it 
+  before I started reading it, and it’s the only book she has eaten, to date."
+- gr_id: 6811057533
+  title: The Will of the Many
+  author: James Islington 
+  rating: 4
+  read: 2024/10/16
+  review: "Give me a little 'started from the bottom now we here' epic fantasy adventure and I’ll for sure enjoy it. 
+  I’m already mad I didn’t wait to read this until book 2 was out because it ended on a cliffhanger and I NEED to 
+  know what’s next because that ending was whack."
+- gr_id: 6738188200
+  title: All Fours
+  author: Miranda July
+  rating: 3.5
+  read: 2024/10/16
+  review: "In every book (just this book actually) there are three wolves: what I expected it to be from my friends’ 
+  reviews (erotic and horny, but literary) vs how I experienced reading it (insane woman makes deranged life choices I 
+  can’t relate to; my favourite genre) vs what it ended up being (self acceptance and feminism? Sort of). A rollercoaster 
+  of a read whichever wolf you pick."
+- gr_id: 6586387969
+  title: Intermezzo
+  author: Sally Rooney
+  rating: 4
+  read: 2024/10/07
+  review: "Update after I’ve been sitting on it: I do wonder if me liking this book is like when I thought I liked Sonic 
+  Youth because all the other edgy people liked Sonic Youth.<br><br>
+  <br><br> --- <br><br
+  I’m a painter, and as a painter I struggle a lot with the idea of 'having a style'. I fear that if my visual style 
+  changes too much and looks too different from previous work, then it’s a sign I’m not confident enough/my visual 
+  style is not strong enough/I’m too inconsistent etc. I tell you this because in this book, Sally Rooney 
+  intentionally experiments with style, in a way that’s completely unrecognizable at first glance from her last books, 
+  yet when you’re done reading it 'feels' completely like a Sally Rooney book: deeply emotional, at times philosophical, 
+  critical of current society and some of its norms. May I be that brave.
+  <br><br> 
+  The writing threw me off at first and took a bit getting used to. The sentences are sometimes backwards 
+  and feel overwritten— (the object), she (verbs): Cold and dark, the house around her / breathing out he typed / clink of 
+  teaspoons he hears / etc, but in the end it had the effect of making me slow down, read and think about every sentence 
+  because it was too pretty to miss. This isn’t a book where something 'happens', but it is a book where a lot of life is lived, 
+  and you’re right there along with the characters, mundane or introspective, agreeing with or getting mad at. 
+  And if you like the sound of that, you’ll love this book. Or you’ll think it’s real wankery and boring. 
+  Doubt there will be much in between.
+<br><br>
+Btw I do wonder if this was a deliberate choice; like, if I were Sally Rooney and I had all these big thoughts 
+I wanted to put out there in the world to make it better, I’d be pretty bummed that Normal People got so popular 
+because it was such an easy read, and people didn’t internalize them how I wanted them to. I do wonder if in this case, 
+I’d write an extremely literary book, so that you can’t help but think about e.g. vacuous truths."
 - gr_id: 213069271
   title: Bad Publicity
   author: Bianca Gillam