Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels

[Stewed]

You have already spent too much time on this book.

[Charles Darnay]

Elaborate.

[Stewed]

A joke. I wasted a lot of time reading up to the second last page. I think it's a bad habit to praise the good by dwelling on the bad. Still I felt malicious enough to want to take a lazy kick at it. Hadn't read the review guidelines at that point, either. But don't read it; it's terrible, it's a scented candle of a book, solemnly dripping with sensitivity and gift-shop aesthetics.