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Naive camp is The Most Perfect description of the super popular stuff I’ve attempted to love but can’t and probably why I am a huge J. Cruisie fan. Thanks for this!

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Jul 8Liked by Shelf Love

Great analysis!

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Jul 8Liked by Shelf Love

j’adore- because of this genius piece of substack writing, I will henceforth be reframing flop romances as merely Karlie Kloss-esque pieces of literature.

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Jul 9Liked by Shelf Love

I’m fascinated by the taxonomy of camp (naive vs failed vs successful) and I’m going to have to think about how it applies to books I like vs books I don’t

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