F. Scott Fitzgerald 2011
- What it is
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A love story that hurts a little · laughing so you don't cry
- Genre
- Classics Literary Romance
- Feels
- Lyrical Wry Melancholic Romantic Bittersweet
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Love hurts sometimes
Bridget Jones's Diary
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Laughing so you don't cry · comedy with teeth
Severance
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Laughing so you don't cry · comedy with teeth
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Edith Wharton 1920
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A love story that hurts a little
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