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Marek

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Says the variable is the reader's week, not the book.

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Why a book everyone loves lands flat, and how to ask for a recommendation that works

The missing variable in most of these conversations is the reader's week rather than the book.

The same novel at a calm moment and at an exhausted one is two different experiences, and a book abandoned at page fifty in a bad month is not evidence about the book. I have gone back to three things I was sure I disliked and finished all of them.

Which suggests keeping a shelf of abandoned books rather than getting rid of them, and asking whether it was the wrong book or the wrong fortnight.

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