bailedI may try again later, but for now it‘s a bail 🤷🏼♀️ I couldn‘t stay interested… at all.
1 like
Cartwheel: A Novel | 
bailedI may try again later, but for now it‘s a bail 🤷🏼♀️ I couldn‘t stay interested… at all.
pickI found this to be a very interesting fictional view of the Amanda Knox case. The author did a good job of creating a story that sparks deep thought. I really think she did a good job of getting her point across, although, it was a bit complicated in parts.
so-soNot good, not bad. I mostly feel unsettled after finishing this.
Not sure about this one. I‘m halfway through it, and it‘s odd? The writing comes off a bit pretentious.
Tagged by @Dogearedcopy - it took me a while to come up with my answers.
1) Eat, Pray, Love (Yuck!)
2) Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois. I thought everyone would love it. Nope.
3) Katniss-Peet's-Gale - hated Mockingjay so much.
4) Science Fiction
5) Alice from Alice in Wonderland
6) Joyce Carol Oates
7) Characters shutting down the one person with the answers they need, keeping the mystery going.
8) 50 Shades of Grey
9) Lord of the Rings
so-soUgh. For my #didntlikeitstillfinished I chose this one I read for my work book group. I guess I was expecting a courtroom drama and got lit fic instead. Not a bad book, just not my taste.
#marchintoreading @RealLifeReading
panThe author spent more time trying to make the reader hate the characters than actually care about what was going on. The premise sounded interesting, but rather than write a good plot the author ranted for 363 pages about how young people are entitled, ignorant, naive, and self-centered. The ending was abrupt and unsatisfying. I'm so disappointed.
Clarifying the earlier statement. Again, this is pretty much the only thing in this book that sits with me.
#FunFridayPhoto A book that takes place in college? Take your pick! Both of these books mine the issues that arise from the Amanda Knox ordeal. Cartwheel looks at how hard it is to know the truth, to know someone, to understand a person's intentions. Abroad ties its characters to a chain of women throughout the history of the region who have been lost to violence, and lost to Time. Both of these are worth some of your time. Enjoy! 📚📚
so-soThis wasn't the most successful book for me. It is difficult because I know a lot about the Amanda Knox case and Lily, Katy, and Sebastien didn't ring true to what I was expecting. Sebastien's character I found especially tiresome. I did think the book picked up in the second half though.
Just started this book yesterday. It is a fictional account of Amanda Knox and the murder of her roommate abroad. I am much pickier about ebooks I read (maybe because there is no pretty cover to distract me?) but this is definitely holding my attention.
pickI read this book 2-3 years ago and still remember it very well (which says a lot). While I had little interest in the real Amanda Knox trial, I became obsessed with it because of this book. DuBois gets into her characters' heads (and therefore the readers') in such artful and cunning ways.
