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Off the Shelf
By David Brown | Wednesday,
January 25, 2017
There is this silly word that only exists in book reviews and
was probably invented by a book reviewer. It’s “unputdownable.” Spell check
will always underline it in red, auto-correct will always suggest confusing
replacements, and I’ll always picture a book with some sticky, glue-like substance
on it preventing you from releasing it. The word might be silly, but the
concept isn’t.
I happen to judge books by their “stickiness,” or how long the
story, resolution, or characters stick with me after I finish the last page.
The stickiest book that I’ve read in a long while was Mindy Mejia’s
EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE. READ
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