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Reading in Public No. 7

The Expectations Game: Common expectation hangups for readers

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Sara Hildreth
Apr 13, 2023
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As a public reader and reviewer who loves consuming other public readers’ reviews, I know I’m not alone in letting expectations impact my reading experience. So often we hear about books not living up to the hype, books taking us by surprise, books that are marketed as fill-in-the-blank-genre that are not fill-in-the-blank genre. As an avid reader, it’s…

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