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Reading another pair of books that are exactly the same

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Naomi K
Jun 20, 2016
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This time it's a pair of books about groups of girlfriends tryna make it in their twenties: Jennifer Knoll's Girls in White Dresses and J Courtney Sullivan's Commencement. I still can't tell whether these are good books or not. They're ridiculously compelling and emotional, but they're also stacked high with cliches. For instance, in Commencement (the b…

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