Katerina | 
pickI realise I am probably in the minority on this one, but I really enjoyed this book. I like the way he blurs fact with fiction (again!). I love the way he writes. Yes it‘s unconventional but not so far out of left field that you can‘t engage with it. Swearing, lack of punctuation and the odd bit of stream of consciousness doesn‘t bother me as it does some readers. If you feel the same way, give this book a try. Dare to be different! 😀
bailedI can't find anything to recommend this book. I didn't like the writing, the story or the main character! I think it's a memoir.....about a shallow, sex obsessed young would-be writer.....I did however very much enjoy the comments from my other postal markup team members @thegreensofa @LapReader @CarolynM and I feel like we need to get together for coffee/wine to complete our literary review in person😂❤️ #LMPBC #GroupZ #ozgroup
panAt first I felt this was a car crash kind of book - ugly but difficult to look away from - and I was interested in where it was going. My major problem with it was its shallowness, I never felt I had any sense of the MC other than as a pretentious drunk so I had no emotional investment in him. Then came the insta-love and the appalling series of clichés which would have embarrassed most romance novelists. ? #LMPBC #GroupZ
pickI‘m away for my partner‘s 47th b‘day at The Anchorage. Service is excellent. Margaritas in the spa? No prob. Candle on the balcony? No worries. Breakfast comes with bottomless champagne as does arvo high tea. I‘m enjoying this book despite the fact that the main character is acting like an adolescent brat. It‘s taking me ages to absorb a pg as despite this he is making me think & everyone can remember what it feels like to be a passionate teen.
The MC, in the present, is depressed, preventing him from #fixingahole in his life. Then he gets a phone call from someone that takes him back to the 90‘s in his 20‘s when he left school to go to Paris where he got #hookedonafeeling about a girl. I thought about this book a lot when I read Milkman because of the repetitive sentences just switched around. But Middle Sister was no cocaine addicted alcoholic. #BeatleMaynia #MayMovieMagic
Kitty is like - hey, not so fast with this reading bullshit, I need a place to prop my paws.
I‘ve heard terrible things about this book but here goes nothing. See also: I‘ll make the decision on what I hate or not.
pickJames Frey is controversial figure in the literary world. He tells lies in memoirs and tells truth in fiction, blurring the lines between genres and catching hell for it. His writing style is different. He repeats phrases often and uses excessive profanity. All that being said, Katerina is a damn good audiobook, baring the good, the bad, and the ugly. Frey isn‘t the best narrator, but he‘s the best narrator for this audiobook. Overall rating: 4.69
pickThis is not what I was expecting. The book covers 2 periods in Jay‘s life. His 2017, self-hating, empty, yet successful existence and his 1992, went to Paris to live life, get drunk, get coked up, appreciate art and become a writer who burns the world down life. He meets Katerina in Paris and they reconnect on the internet in the present. Despite his vomiting, and the vulgar language, the run on sentences with no punctuation that made me 👇🏼
Devil‘s Triangle
Jesus!!!! James Frey!!! I‘m just trying to have lunch at work. Not mid, 20‘s, crazy flashbacks. @LauraBeth I just started, and am digging it so far.
pickWritten like a memoir that is indeed fiction. Taking place between 1992 Paris where two young people, a writer and a model are both on the verge of becoming famous end up falling madly and recklessly in love. Flash forward to 2018 in LA where the writer is now married, famous and rich but very unhappy. He receives an anonymous message that may lead him back to the abandoned love of his youth.
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"The only thing you really need to know about Katerina is that it's ridiculous." ?
I always enjoy a good pan and "worst novel of the year" is pretty bad!
I guess I don't need to add this to the TBR pile.
panFor the vast majority of this book, I despised it. I wanted to quit because I was tired of the repetitiveness, the lack of commas, the lack of quotation marks, the vulgarity, and my general dislike of the main character, Jay. Then I got to the end and it completely crushed me. Although, unfortunately, the heart wrenching ending does not make up for all of the pages I had to read to get there (but it did bump my rating up from 1 to 2 stars).
Mississippi never leaves you. Lol
so-so
