Neon in Daylight: A Novel | 
so-soThis was a spontaneous pick for me! I knew nothing about this book and decided to give it a chance because I love stories set in NYC. It was okay. The plot and characters seems pretty cliche to me… divorcé dad having relationship with younger woman, rebellious daughter, fraught long-distance relationship. It was fine, but it wasn‘t fresh.
panMeh. I probably would have DNF‘d this one, but it was really short and so I pushed through. Just wasn‘t grabbed by these characters and there was no real plot to speak of.
#AbbaInAugust #Summernightcity I spotted this one yesterday in the shop & nearly got it. I think this sounds good !
#LibraryHaul
Yay!! More book love from the library. I‘d better get reading!!!!
"It's never love, as soon as you feel the next love. Because isn't that a prerequisite of the condition? That you tell yourself everything that came before wasn't really it."
so-soAs someone who did live out her 20s in NY and didn't quite feel right in my skin then, I was drawn to this book right away, but it wasn't everything I hoped. The characters are well drawn, depiction of the city felt truthful, definitely funny at times, but I didn't like spending so much time with the father and daughter, who didn't really have fleshed out arcs or growth. I was more into Kate's self discovery, and this felt short-shrifted.
pickYou know, I debated between giving this four or five stars and—fuck it—I‘m giving it five. There are elements and characters that really moved me; and the way certain scenes were so well put together and then connected, it got gripping, kind of like a thriller novel.
“What a dick-move of evolution, to render faces more conspicuous at the moment they most longed to be effaced.”
This book has LINES.
Been a long time since I posted here. In the last year we bought a condo, sold out place, and moved (repeatedly) while we renovated the entire place and then life just got chaotic. Finally starting to feel settled. Kicking off my long weekend with this, in my favourite place.
bailedOk, I'm usually pretty fair about books and try not to have more than 3 going at any given time, but I legitimately FORGOT about this one. It didn't capture me, and while it has good dialogue and 3D characters the plot was one pothole after another that was poorly paved and made for an unpleasant journey.
I'm having a hard time with this book. It's not holding onto my attention like it should be...😓😓😓
pickKate is a British woman who needs a break from her own life spends a summer apartment-sitting in NY, where she forms unlikely relationships with a young free-spirited woman and her father, a writer coasting on the fame of his first novel. None of the characters are fully formed and there is not much plot to speak of, but I do like stories of alienation abroad.
bailedThis book does not work on so many levels. I think I cannot relate to this type of book anymore. Hate to bail on a book I purchased but I have 150 pages and not sure what I just read.
From the current issue of #EntertainmentWeekly ‘s Must List.
May January 2018 releases continue to treat me excellently...
It is strange to read ARCs and wonder where I'll be and what I'll be up to on their pub dates. Anyway, I'm liking this one quite a bit.
