I have already had the humiliating experience of calling several books from this decade “recent” and then realizing they have been living in my head for years. That is probably the better test anyway. Not whether I loved them during the first week, but whether a family argument, a strange friendship, a house full of impossible rooms, or one furious voice keeps resurfacing long after I have forgotten half the other books I read around them.
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