Dept. of Speculation

Didn't love it; didn't hate it. I guess that's a 3-star review. For those who are thinking about reading it, it may be a better read if you read it in a day or two and not two weeks.

According to one reviewer, this doesn't stand up to Elena Ferrante's writing at all. What does? It works at what it is, a tightly compressed examination of a marriage. Points off, though, for being yet another book set in Brooklyn.

This is a short but lovely story of a relationship, a child and a marriage, as told by that girl on Livejournal you had a massive crush on when you were 17.