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Finished this last night with my reading companion Mr. Junebug. July bug? Quirky book with themes really resonating with me right now. Fans of Jenny Offil‘s Weather might like this one. Woman disconnected from the world and all the people around her is shaken out of her disengagement. When one of her fellow P.R. consultants bails on work and life, his project is thrown onto her plate: Save the Norway postal service from an EU directive! ⬇️

i bought this book for my dad for christmas & since i had a copy of the e-book, i decided to also read it so we could talk about it. honestly, i didn‘t find the first half of the book very compelling but once the postal workers and their fight against the EU directive were introduced, it really started to pick up & there were even moments that moved me to tears! long live the postal service! 📬🌹

This is... conclusively Not My Thing, but it prominently features a postal service (or so I'm told) and that makes it perfect for my feature on the Postcrossing blog (https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/tag/books -- not the most recent post, but the two before that). It's short... I can do this...!

Mostly I don't like the stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and the main character is (intentionally) vague and disconnected. Meh. Not my thing.

Norwegian postal unions fighting an EU directive with the help of a PR consultant who is having a personality crisis. Topical, because long live the post office!