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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | Alissa Nutting
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DinoMom
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Bought this for the title and cover alone. I have no idea what to expect but starting this as part of #roll100 for December.

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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 11mo
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Megabooks
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Mehso-so

Eh. This was fine. Some of her wackiness was wonderful, but some of it missed the mark for me. Porn Star features the host of a game show where the winning contestant gets to have sex with her…on the moon. In Deliverywoman, an interstellar trucker heads to an auction house to buy the cryogenically frozen body of her criminal mother. And those were the ones I enjoyed! I much preferred the more structured weird of Tampa and Made for Love.

vivastory I have only read Made for Love. This title makes me think of the Mike Rowe show 😂 2y
Megabooks Me too but decidedly more sexual than the Dirty Jobs on Discovery! @vivastory (edited) 2y
Cinfhen I‘ve only read and LOVED 2y
Cinfhen But I don‘t think this is for me!! #TooWeird 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen tampa was my favorite and this didn‘t compare. I‘d say skip it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y
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Bertha_Mason

I like Alissa Nutting, except when she tries to do sci-fi.

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Bertha_Mason

"She seems to be continually deflating from her neck hole, wrinkled and losing the battle for air. Her hole is like a withered pit that used to hold a large seed, but one day it fell out and she wilted."
-"Teenager"

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Bertha_Mason

"She sighs, and it is a loaded sigh; I hear leaves stirring inside of it, very dead, very dried leaves. They scare me, these leaves inside my sister‘s voice."
-"Bandleader's Girlfriend"

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Bertha_Mason

"When I glance at Leo, it's like seeing a lemon the color of tooth enamel."
-"Porn Star"

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Bertha_Mason

"His teeth are a variety of sizes in all the wrong places, as if they‘d once fallen out and he had to shove them back in a hurry with no regard to their original position. He looks naked without a log of wood beneath his arm, though this is the first time I‘ve ever seen him, and he‘s logless. I bet he likes waffles."
-"Porn Star"

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catiewithac
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Haha @Mynameisacolour we sent each other the same book 😂 I finally opened the #LitsyLoveSpringSwap box you sent. The notecards and stickers are adorable! Thank you! The pens are so thoughtful 🩺 What a nice way to usher in this season of renewal and growth 🌸 #LLSS Thanks for hosting Kristen and Rachel 🥰

Jessieleah Those pens are so cute!! 4y
HeathHof I had to smile when I opened that book, great minds🤣 I'm glad you liked everything! I'm currently binging Horrid. Thank you again for the amazing package!😁 4y
Bookgoil Those pens are so cute and it‘s so fun when you send each other the same book maybe you can read it together! ❤️ 4y
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reading_rainbow
Pickpick

This book gave me the weirdest dreams lol I love Alissa Nuttings writing and her humor. Quick little bizarre read, I enjoyed it a lot👍🏼

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reading_rainbow
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“ It‘s right here on my waist; I‘ve been making paths inside of me just as there are paths inside of you. After you came to see me, I began reporting to the government that I,too, hold ants inside my body, but I don‘t. Not yet. It is your ants I‘m after. You have become the ants who ate you; your consciousness is united with theirs. And when you all crawl inside of me, we will all become one forever.”
🦴 🐜

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reading_rainbow
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🍑

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Heather_Allen
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Day 3 of the #7days7books challenge posting some of my favorite books 📖

Megabooks She‘s one of my favorite authors! 5y
Heather_Allen Same!! 5y
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Jenjamin
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Pickpick

“Humor allows us to convey terror without being shunned, and to experience terror without being isolated.” I was embarrassed for the women in these stories, women who so often found themselves in absurd situations with misplaced hope. But I was embarrassed because I have been them— even if I haven‘t been a model‘s assistant or knife thrower or corpse smoker— and hindsight is 20/20.

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Well-ReadNeck
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Bailedbailed

Nutting‘s novel, Tampa, was delightfully weird and warped. These stories (to be fair, the first 1/3, anyway), were weird and warped but just didn‘t reach the high bar of that novel for me. #MountTBR

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Megabooks
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I did it! 🎉📚☕️💙💚👍🏻 My fourth time for #24in48 and my second for #24b4Monday! Thanks to everyone who cheered me on 😊 And thanks to the moderators at 24in48 and @TheReadingMermaid and @Andrew65 here on Litsy! I‘m going to finish this book up (It‘s great. 😁) and then 😴😴😴

Nessavamusic Grats!! 6y
BeansPage Congratulations hun!!! 👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉 6y
LauraJ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 6y
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DGRachel Congrats! 6y
cariashley Great job! 6y
monkeygirlsmama Wtg!!! 6y
Bookzombie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
Jas16 🎉📚🙌🏽🥳 6y
Traci1 Congrats! 6y
hes7 Yay! 🎉 6y
Bookish.SAM Congrats!!👏 6y
sprainedbrain Woohoo! 🎉🎉 6y
Kalalalatja Well done! 6y
Simona Congrats 👏👏👏 6y
Librarybelle Congratulations! 6y
biblio_ginger Yay! Congrats! 😄😄😄 6y
Kaye 🌟 6y
youneverarrived 🙌🙌 6y
RealLifeReading Woohoo!!! 👏👏👏 6y
Andrew65 Congratulations 🙌😊👏👍🥳🙌😊👏👍🥳🏆🍾⭐️ 6y
Megabooks @Andrew65 Thank you!! 😊😊🥰🥰 6y
Reviewsbylola Killed it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 6y
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Megabooks
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I just treated myself to this ebook because #readathon. I‘m loving these short stories! Tampa is one of my favorite books I never recommend to anyone, so maybe I can recommend this. 😏 #24in48 #24b4Monday

And I won a 24in48 prize! 🎉🎉🎉📚 Yay!

monkeygirlsmama Congrats on your win! 6y
BeansPage Why do you never recommend Tampa? I'm curious because I'm curious about the book. I haven't read it yet. 🤔 6y
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Megabooks @TheReadingMermaid I love it. But there‘s VERY graphic, frequent sex between a teacher and a minor. Not for everyone. It‘s very well written, though! 6y
Andrew65 Well done on the prize! 👍 6y
Megabooks @Andrew65 Thank you! 😊 6y
ohyeahthatgirl Haha, I feel the same about Tampa! Also The Devil All the Time. Sooo dark and violent (the dog doesn't make it) but so compelling. 6y
Reviewsbylola Lol Tampa was too much. I bailed. 6y
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rachellayown
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Some of these stories are pretty out there, others were just delightfully weird. Overall it was an entertaining read. Alissa Nutting is one of a kind.

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Giovannacb
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Pickpick

Weird, psychedelic and oddly sensual! This was a very fun and gritty collection, recommend to anyone who loves dark fantastical feminist writing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (out of 5)

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amb
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Pickpick

This book was full of weird stories and I loved it! Each story is titled after a job, even when I didn't see how the title actually was a job, or where the other was going with it it was always not what I expected. Well written and interesting, different than anything I've read in recent and not so recent memory. Not weird for weirdness sake but the author's mind is amazing.

readordierachel Love the cover! 6y
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Ashley_Nicoletto
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Pickpick

Ever read a book that's so strange and wrong that you can't help but cackle in delight that another humans brain thought it up? That's this book.

Effing weird and wonderful.

emilyhaldi Intrigued by the cover!!! 6y
Ashley_Nicoletto @emilyhaldi This book is so weird. The covering is fitting. 🤣 6y
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Lauren.Archer
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Like everything Alissa Nutting writes, it‘s wonderful with just enough strangeness built in. Overall solid short story collection.

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Lauren.Archer
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New work week, new short story collection.

Well-ReadNeck Just picked this one up this weekend!!! 6y
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BookshelfAl
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Late lunch and some short stories! #reversereadathon #readathon @DeweysReadathon

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Well-ReadNeck
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SWEEEEET!! The second-half preview is (finally) here!!!!! There goes my TBR!!! 🤗📚📚📚📚

https://themillions.com/2018/07/great-second-half-2018-book-preview.html

AmyG Thank you. 6y
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Rachael_reads
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Pickpick

I have mixed feelings about this book. The stories are so bizarre. I can't decide if they are good or if the author was trying to be as weird as possible. I wonder if she was practicing galumphing... fitting unrelated objects, actions, etc. together.
I do love the cover.

ohyeahthatgirl I liked these stories, but I really loved her novel, Tampa. And she has a new novel out this year! 8y
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Rachael_reads
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#bookmail
The book arrived!!! So excited to dive into this one. 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚

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Rachael_reads
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I've been wanting this book for so long, I finally ordered it!! It will arrive tomorrow!!! ☺ 📚

Suzze That sounds really interesting! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds really interesting! 8y
Librariana I'm with @Suzze and @Riveted_Reader_Melissa - sounds intriguing! Will be looking forward to your thoughts on it! 8y
ohyeahthatgirl I looooove Alissa Nutting! She has a new book coming out this year and I can't wait. 8y
Rachael_reads @ohyeahthatgirl Awesome...i didn't know that. Thanks! 8y
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