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Yes, Philip Larkin named a book after me 😆. Why I thought it a good idea to read the story of a teenage boy from the provinces excruciatingly trying to find his way through the incomprehensible nuances of life at Oxford University when I‘m about to send my own teenage boy off to uni I don‘t know. My heart both broke and cringed for poor John Kemp as things unravel. You‘ll also love to hate his privileged (or is he?) roommate from hell.

3⭐️ I enjoyed the early part of Jill, with descriptive campus narrative, and strong characterizations. While the kids in The Secret History inhaled drugs and alcohol, the pupils in Jill have afternoon tea with cakes and scones 👨‍🎓It starts getting weird in the middle, with the main character - poor student John Kemp - becoming a totally different version of himself. Still a good college novel, though.

I shall do this for my kanji exercise

My current read 😍 and am loving it so far. It‘s quite similar to Old School. College setting is my fav… especially the ones in early 20th century. Sigh… I just want to jump into the story and be one of the characters.