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The Summer of Oprah: If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
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Today’s Oprah author, Robin Black, is undoubtedly a skilled short story writer. As she reveals details about settings, plot, time, and space to readers in If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, her characters are slowly opened up to reveal raw, screwed up, real people, so screwed up and real that you see yourself in them.
It’s this very fact that makes these stories so unbelievably boring. Reading these stories is like watching the front-runner for the Academy Award Best Picture nominee—you know it’s very good, but you can’t bring yourself to care. You watch the movie, you don’t hate it, and you wish you had the knowledge or the passion to bring yourself to love it.
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