The official match-up this round is an easy choice for me. I found the formal experimentation of Margo’s Got Money Troubles to be intrusive and irritating while the formal experimentation of The Extinction of Irena Rey seemed delightful to me. It seems an easy choice to advance The Extinction of Irena Rey.
Meanwhile in a parallel universe
If you’d asked me a couple months ago which book I’d pick between The Extinction of Irena Rey and The Wedding People, without hesitation, I would have picked The Wedding People. I’ve been flogging this book hard (my mom’s book club added it to their reading list). But The Extinction of Irena Rey has been worming its way into my consciousness gradually and I think it’s the better book to advance.
Which leaves
My judgment on the judgment
I had a bit of panic going into this judgment as there was the possibility of an upset as there was on the left side of the brackets, but my worries were for naught: Sammy Loren picked The Extinction of Irena Rey to advance although for slightly different reasons than my own.
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