I just want to excerpt massive passages of this book. I almost didn’t get it out of the library, and when I did check it out, I almost didn’t read it. It’s this woman’s diaries from World War II – she was living in London during the Blitz, which you’d think would cause her to, you know, write about the Blitz, but she’s seventeen and mainly unsupervised, and largely what she’s writing about is all the men she’s running around with. I keep thinking “Oh, the author has done things so cleverly here, look at all the things she’s leaving…
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