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JENNIFER PLATT | Now here’s a thriller that’s worth the hangover
You’ll be sad when you exit Belinda Bauer’s delightful examination of death and dying, but it’s worth it
05 May 2021 - 19:41
A book hangover — that terrible feeling when one finishes a book, usually fiction, and can’t stop thinking about it and its characters. The reader is so attached to the book that when it ends it causes one emotional distress. Urban Dictionary defines it as (1) the inability to start a new book because you are still living in the old book’s world and (2) the inability to function at work/school because you were up all night binge-reading. ..
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