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Friday, January 29, 2021

Love

LoveLove 
by Roddy Doyle
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
“Things you make up bleed into things tha' definitely happened. Like describin' an event, an actual occasion. You add to it, you take things out. You forget exact details. I don't think it's dishonest.”
I'm not really sure how I felt about this book. It made me think. It made me sad. It seemed to want us to believe that love is a real thing. It couldn't really offer solid proof though. Played a lot with questions of memory. Is there a version of the past that "really happened" or is it all just the perception of the people who remember it, including those who weren't even there.