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A Year in Reading: Angela Chen

At the beginning of the lockdown, I—in a fever dream of hubris, pretentiousness, and self-delusion—decided that this would be the perfect time to finish ’s . I’d read the first two volumes years ago and loved them whole-heartedly, but abandoned volume three, , because the focus shifted to French aristocratic life instead of extremely relatable adolescent angsting. I did pick up again and I did finally finish, but I could not force myself to read the next book past

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