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I'm your host Danic Ellis. This is episode number 458.5, and today I'm going to talk about a couple of messy, sappic, 20-something coming of age novels.

So I was thinking about this because I am part of a queer book club and their most recent pick was one I had been

meaning to read for a while and when I picked it up I think, you know, when I was in my 20s, this sort of, I can't say what I would usually call this sub-genre.

So let's call it the 20-something mess-up novel was a style I absolutely loved. I obviously could

relate to it and I just found it so enjoyable to read about 20-somethings kind of bouncing around

through their

relationships of all kinds.

And I thought this was the height of literary fiction and as I began reading this book club pick I thought you know maybe I am beyond that now maybe I am a different kind of reader now that I am in my mid-30s.

Just as at some point in my 20s I started realizing, although there are some great YA books I really enjoy, I don't relate to the

main character like I used to. That happened in my 20s. I feel like maybe that's happening in my 30s.

For the 20-somethingsomething mess-up novel. But I stuck with it and I

ended up really enjoying it so I thought I would talk about a couple of these

sappic 20-something coming of age novels in a very messy way that I really

enjoyed, the one I just read from my book club, and then one I read previously. But before I get into the books I do want to talk about

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