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No One Is Talking about This
No One Is Talking about This | Patricia Lockwood
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Taylor
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Cool book but it leans hard into a certain idea, and you have to be all in on this idea to really have the story resonate with you.

Some of the prose is exceptionally outstanding, and fresh. It‘s like a prose poem much of the time, and she does a good job of not letting the prose-poetics get overly long.

Again: a lot of it is unpacking something she went through. I could see how if your view aligns with hers, this would be super meaningful.

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plemmdog
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“The problem was that the dictator was very funny, which had maybe been true of all dictators. Absurdism, she thought. Suddenly all those Russian novels where a man turns into a teaspoon of blackberry jam at a country house began to make sense.”

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shortsarahrose
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After a day of storms, today was a beautiful day for the first farmers‘ market of the season. Of course, I had to hit the Friends of the Library book sale while I was there! 📚

RaeLovesToRead Patricia Lockwood 🥰🥰 6mo
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Ididsoidid
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How do you capture the entire gamut of social media in a novel that is only 200 pages long? In fact, try doing it in only half the novel. This was dizzy, funny, terrifying, and ultimately heart wrenching. Im still struggling to accept that some of the most beautiful prose I‘ve read is in a novel which is 30% cringy sex jokes.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

The first part feels like an acid trip stuffed with keen observations of America during Trump's presidency and how people behave online, on social media. The second half is a fairly raw account of love and loss, includes a powerful statement in favour of reproductive rights, open questions about ableism, but primarily just shows the human experience, when caring supersedes the attention economy. It's a narrative that's comfortable being messy. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 That being said, it frustrates me to no end to spot the moments of beautiful writing, real emotion, and then get lost again in the scattershot of seemingly random thoughts and toilet humour. Relatable perhaps, and patently a style, seeing as Priestdaddy has a similar flavour, but glimpsing those singular descriptions makes me crave those bits over all that is on the page. Will have to try Lockwood's poetry next, see if they distills/differs... 1y
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 ⚠️fetal and infant health concerns, infant disability, terminal condition, infant death 1y
Robotswithpersonality P.S. Had to hide content warnings under spoiler because they do indicate big events in the book, but this is auto fiction, so you may already know what's coming... 1y
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Robotswithpersonality
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Not sure I've seen that particular abolitionist alternative before...🤨I can respect going back to Greek myths for inspiration...🤔

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Silverneurotic
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This was a gut punch. Starts out as a commentary/satire about social media and completely does a 180*.

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ManyWordsLater
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Second book of the day.

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currentlyreadinginCO
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Maybe I should memorize this five-hour audio so that if anyone asks "what's wrong?" I can just start from the beginning?

In all seriousness, I think that people who would describe themselves as "too online" might really enjoy this. I'd be careful to recommend this exquisitely written novel to anyone though w/o warning them that the TWs are real and, damn.

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Ang203l
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Just two gals sitting in the sun spots! #catsoflitsy

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Erin.Elizabeth10
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This book is a very thought-provoking look at call-out culture & generally just being extremely online. There is a loose plot about an unnamed female protagonist and her sister‘s pregnancy, but it is very loosely woven. In general this book is much more atmospheric and wanders between little instances that create a general vibe. If you have qualms about internet generations and cancel culture, & you don‘t need a plot-driven book, this is for you!

Erin.Elizabeth10 My favorite quote was, “Modern womanhood was more about rubbing snail mucus on your face than she had thought it would be.” 😂 Guilty. 2y
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JLaurenceCohen
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Lockwood is exceptionally witty, but this book isn't for everyone. It consists of very short paragraphs, reflecting the way that the internet has diminished our attention spans. There's only a very slight narrative, but the protagonist--like a character in a Greek tragedy--gains wisdom through suffering. I admire it more than I enjoyed it.

paulfrankspencer Sharp review, that. 2y
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JLaurenceCohen
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Rather than describe being Very Online, Lockwood inhabits it. The prose is very funny, but a little depressing even for someone who spends a fair amount of his time on Twitter.

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Graywacke
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#12booksof2022 June

An ok reading month, but i was surprised how much I got into this book and how much I continued to think about it afterwards.

Andrew65 This is sitting in my TBR. 2y
Graywacke @Andrew65 it‘s a book readers tend to love or hate. And i can understand why. So I only recommend it it with some reservation. But i loved it. 2y
Rissreads I thought this one was fantastic and quite clever. 2y
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BaBaBaBillyAndTheBooks
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In Lockwood‘s book, going on the Internet is called “opening the portal.” The narrator seems to have built a professional life there as a humor writer, until a new arrival calls her back through the door. A baby born with Proteus Syndrome, too rare for both the physical and digital world, transcends both places like the cover‘s circular rainbow, calling everyone nearby to attention and appearing as a kind of short-lived miracle.

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SheilaChew
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Library stack. 🥰

SheilaChew I wanted to like this book, but the format was too jumpy and I never connected to any of the characters. 2y
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RaeLovesToRead
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First of all, wow.. Lockwood is a master of the poetry craft. She can sculpt her sentences incisively to cut through the gristle & straight to the core of what she's trying to say. And she's witty to boot.

Part 1 is a blistering critique of the Internet age that still acknowledges that things were shittier 100 years ago. Part 2 is a short story about love and grief.

The two parts don't belong together. A stunning but ultimately incohesive work.

RaeLovesToRead Also, I HATE the cover. Sorry to sound like a pretentious ass, but it's so pedestrian! 2y
The_Penniless_Author It is a godawful cover 😕 2y
ravenlee That cover looks like one of those “motivational” quote posters. 2y
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RaeLovesToRead @The_Penniless_Author @ravenlee I knowww 😭😭😭 The author is actually quite edgy... it doesn't match at all 😠 2y
Yuki_Onna @ravenlee @RaeLovesToRead yes, exactly! 😖 yikes! why on earth did they choose such an off-putting one? (edited) 2y
Yuki_Onna however - big yay to the coffee and cake! 😋 looks yummm... 🤩 2y
RaeLovesToRead @Yuki_Onna Toffee blondie and a large mocha 😉☕ 2y
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RaeLovesToRead
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Next up!

You reckon this counts as "a social horror"? ?

So far this is reading like clever prose poetry.

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Cinfhen
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#AlphabetGame One of the most memorable and affecting books I‘ve read in a very long time. Have you played yet @Allylu ??!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻📚👌🏻 2y
Megabooks Nice choice! 2y
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sophies_little_library
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Mehso-so

Lockwood is fantastic at capturing the fragmented, crushing feeling of being terminally online. I found the second half, in which a child she loves is extremely sick, hugely moving. But this book just wasn‘t for me, because I found the first half so exhausting- short, snappy paragraphs about the ‘portal‘ which didn‘t advance a plot, and at times felt like they were included just to be witty. I‘m sure this was the point, but I found it tough.

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AmandaBlaze
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Mehso-so

This wss a Booker Prize Winner; however, I just couldn't get into it. It was beautifully written, and I enjoyed how Lockwood described social media, known as the Portal in the book. It's when she starts describing real life that I couldn't connect the two halves of the book.
#JubilantJuly @Andrew65

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 2y
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everlocalwest
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I read this a bit ago and oddly, it was all I talked about. I've written here before about loving novels written by poets and this is absolutely the gold standard of that statement. Lockwood begins this novel by basically synthesizing the whole of the internet (or Twitter, at the very least) and ends by crushing your soul with the brutality of a very real family tragedy. Read it and feel things. Your empathy muscles will grow three sizes.

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Larkken
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Oh, no. I didn‘t read the trigger warnings, so this is on me; this book is about both modern life being at the mercy of social media, and also about a terminal pregnancy. Be warned, folks, and don‘t read in public!

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Larkken
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My kitty and I are listening to this on the back porch and watching the rain. The meta-ness and the feeling like I‘m listening to a series of twitter posts is a bit mind-bending. I‘m impressed by the format but unsure if I have the attention span for so much randomness! It‘s interesting…

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Julsmarshall
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This novel is strange, modern, and thoughtful. A spare and raw examination of “the portal” (social media), it is truth telling at a whole new level. Often crass, it is ultimately empathetic, emotional, and good. This book is one of a kind! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Blackout

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
Megabooks Perfect summation re: first sentence!! 2y
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Julsmarshall
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Trying to finish this today to #blackout my #BookspinBingo board for June! Weird and kinda wonderful.

melissanorr I'm jealous of your Waterloo! I can't find that flavor anywhere near me. 2y
Julsmarshall @melissanorr I think it is a special seasonal flavor for the 4th. It is really good, I should stock up! I‘d offer to ship you a couple, but I‘m not sure they‘d travel well 😄 2y
melissanorr I can just see the explosion in the mail! 2y
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rachaich
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This is the library book club choice for July.
The cover is so gentle, reminds me of the view from the plane.
I'm unsure what it's really about... ivecread a few pages and feel clueless!

MrsMalaprop Buckle yourself in! 😊 2y
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Graywacke
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Twitter personality wrote a Twitter novel. And it works. It‘s creative, powerful and, I thought, confusing to our mental senses. A spray of information through bitesized expressions with meaning, each contained and concluded; and they‘re insightful, and they go rushing by in a flurry of not-really-random information. And there is a story within, broken up and unfocused by the chatter and yet patently there. I‘ve been mentally twirling this one. 👇

Graywacke I think it‘s a strange fantastic creation, and the nature of how it works or doesn‘t is as interesting as whether it works or doesn‘t. 2y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB @Suet624 @CarolynM Here‘s where my thoughts are 5 days later. 2y
Suet624 Thank you so much for sharing. I felt the same way but you expressed it soooo much better. 2y
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BarbaraBB I understand what you mean. Very insightful 🤍 2y
CarolynM You‘ve found a wonderful way to describe it. For me, it didn‘t fully work, but I was so moved by the tragedy of the second part, and the way the narrator stepped up for her family, that I mostly forgave it. 2y
vlwelser 💯 2y
Graywacke @Suet624 @BarbaraBB @CarolynM @vlwelser thanks. It was nice to be able to express what I felt (at least as I wrote it). That‘s not always easy. And regarding the book, I think I had to find a way to process it, to figure why I appreciated it. Because it doesn‘t work perfectly, it‘s not entirely original, but it is actually very original in a manner, and does work. It‘s a hard-to-capture something. 2y
Graywacke @CarolynM I completely understand. And i felt a lot was left unresolved. The narrator confronts a lot of personal problems and then moves on. And so I kept wondering about many of them. 2y
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Graywacke
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Bought a Kindle version and started this yesterday evening. So far a hundred pages of mind trapped in Facebook or some other social media (… like 🙄🥺 this? Surely never.) I‘m enjoying it but ready for that second part a lot of reviews talk about. Oh - with this I will complete last year‘s Booker longlist.

BarbaraBB Can‘t wait to see your thoughts on the 2nd part 2y
Suet624 What @BarbaraBB said. 2y
CarolynM I‘m also keen to see your final review🙂 2y
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Graywacke @BarbaraBB @Suet624 @CarolynM I finally finished this morning, but not sure what my thoughts are. I‘ll sit on it a bit. 2y
BarbaraBB The ‘but‘ sounds hesitating, I am very curious what you think! 2y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB just a lot to take in - the style, the state of our minds today online, the emotional aspect, the state of the reader (he‘s just tired last couple days). 2y
BarbaraBB I hope the reader will be able to rest and relax a bit 🤍 2y
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Liz_M
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I an so looking forward to trying these recipes, @Julsmarshall! I love icebox cookies and risotto! And I;m excited to try some new-to-me Texan food. 😍

I've had my eye on this book for a while, and (if I can wait that long) might save the it for my next plane ride .

#RecipeSwap @Bennett

LeahBergen Those recipes sound fun. 👍 3y
Julsmarshall I‘m so glad you like everything! I just got home from spending the weekend my my college age daughter and so I‘m about to open mine! 3y
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Bibliophile_22
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Mehso-so

Although at times hard to follow, No One is Talking About This is a unique read. Part one was a clever and disheartening depiction of our current time and part two was a heartbreaking story of loss.

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Jeg
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Very different to anything I have read. Took a while to get into and almost gave up but glad I didn‘t.
I should have read the blurb first , I think that may have helped.
Her subtle critic of the medical system in the US rang true for me.
So much in this book when I think about it.
Few words that say so much.

Suet624 Such a great book! 3y
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mcctrish
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This book was a challenge to read. It‘s not written in a standard prose style and it‘s alarmingly true/real considering the recent news with the American Supreme Court‘s leaked document re: Roe vs Wade and politics in Ohio. It‘s good. It was just hard.

Sparklemn Is that Queen Elizabeth on your mug? 3y
mcctrish @Sparklemn it sure is 3y
Sparklemn I love it! 🙂 3y
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Rissa1
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I just couldn't so it. Reading is my escape this book put me directly in the pages of social media. I think it could probably be a fantastic book but for my mental well being I bailed.

* pic of my front door and my bobble head gnome. Both decorated by my daughter. She wiped mud all over the door and spray painted the gnome with red pain. She is 10.

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mcctrish
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May the 4th Be With You

EvieBee Yes!! Awesome sauce. 3y
BookwormAHN Fantastic 💜 3y
mcctrish @EvieBee @BookwormAHN I had a few people ask me what my shirt says and then say “right on! May the 4th be with you” Nerds Assemble ❤️❤️ 3y
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mcctrish
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This cover makes me think of Oprah

Bookwormjillk Me too! 3y
Kayla.Adriena I really like your photos! 3y
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk 👯‍♀️ 3y
mcctrish @Kayla.Adriena thank you 😊 3y
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MrsMalaprop
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WTF was that I just read 😱😢?

First half felt like I was running. Fast paced; words tripping over themselves. Second half like a hallucination or a really bad dream.

Some clever, poignant stuff here about how we increasingly live our lives online. I don‘t do twitter, but I ‘do‘ just about everything else.

I am confronted, disturbed and self-conscious. So much provocation in one little book. ☄️

CarolynM I wasn't a fan of the first part, but I found the second part deeply moving. She's an interesting writer, that's for sure. 3y
LeeRHarry I DNFed this in the first half and then was encouraged by some Littens to persevere and I found the second half so emotional - one of the most interesting books I think I‘ve ever read. 3y
squirrelbrain Great review! 3y
Rissreads I loved both parts! This was a powerful book. Great review. 3y
Jeg Just finished it. Wow. 3y
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MrsMalaprop
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This book is freaking me TF out 😱. #currentlyreading

(The white-out at the beginning is an attempt to avoid a ‘spoiler‘)

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Andrea313
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I was blown away by this book and read the last quarter or so through a tear-soaked haze. I had to sit with it awhile; in some ways, I feel like I'm still gathering my thoughts. This short space seems insufficient for a review of a book that felt like a major reading experience: a meditation on consciousness; on lives both real and virtual; on blithe irony vs fierce love and loss, deep grief and profound joy; the huge shifts in tiny moments.

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Andrea313
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Being in a month-long reading slump certainly didn't slow me down when it came to acquiring new titles! Now that I feel like I'm getting back into the swing of things, here are a few I plan to start soon. Any favorites among the selection here? #ReadingPlans

Ruthiella Ann Patchett! ❤️ 3y
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Minervasbutler
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Perfectly captures the weirdness of Twitter and the gear shift between Part 1's perceptive humour and Part 2's real-world tragedy is masterfully handled.

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Rissreads
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“A minute means something to her, more than it means to us. We don‘t know how long she has-I can give them to her, I can give her my minutes.” Then, almost angrily, “What was I doing with them before?”
This quote sums up this book to me. The first half of the book is about how superficial and disconnected our lives have become online. The second half is about being connected and present in real life.
It‘s concerning how much time I can waste ⬇️

Rissreads online. I am guilty of sliding down that rabbit hole. This book was a slap in the face and I loved it! (edited) 3y
Lindy I loved this book too. Nice review! 3y
MrsMalaprop Starting this today. 3y
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BarbaraBB
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Another contender for our tournament is No One is Talking About This, this year's favorite book of Cindy, Helen, Sarah and Jessica. Although 6 of us preferred Several People are Typing, the Lockwood is our winner today - as it is in the real #ToB22.

sarahbarnes What a relief!! 🎉 3y
ImperfectCJ It's interesting how the beginning of Several People Are Typing is strong but it loses some of its potential meaning at the end, whereas it's the other way around with No One is Talking About This...like the judge, I almost bailed in the first half of Talking but was glad I kept reading because that 2nd half was...wow. I do think Typing ended realistically, though, if not satisfyingly. I think a big change would have seemed false. 3y
Cinfhen Thank God 😅I really wanted this book to advance!!! I hope it wins but I‘m feeling Trees will be the ultimate champion. (And that wouldn‘t be a bad thing) 3y
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Ruthiella I could see No One is Talking taking the prize...it depends very much on the judge! I don‘t mind it advancing. I see why it works for others though it didn‘t for me. 3y
Readerann Looks like I‘ll have to consider reading this one. Sigh. (Oh, the TBR…😩) Several People are Typing was clever, but I didn‘t really expect it to get too far in the ToB. 3y
merelybookish Enjoyed that judgement! And the outcome! Her experience with Several People are Typing resonated with mine. I liked the Lockwood more than she did from the get-go but found it interesting to learn how elitist and exclusionary she found it 'the portal' stuff. 3y
BarbaraBB @ImperfectCJ I‘m with you in that second half of No One is Talking About This. Wow. I did like the first half too but less. And indeed, it‘s the other way around with Several People, which started so good but couldn‘t keep that up imo 3y
Mindyrecycles Depressed now! LOL I loved SPAT and could not bear NOITAT. RIP SPAT and Subdivision. 3y
Megabooks I enjoyed both, but No One was 5⭐️ for me, so I am happy about this!! 3y
BarbaraBB @Mindyrecycles I loved No One but am still missing Subdivision too! 3y
thebluestocking @Megabooks Ditto for me! 3y
Hooked_on_books I fully expected the Lockwood to win in both places today. I felt the same way as the judge about the first half of that book, but did not feel the second half redeemed it. I was not a fan. I really enjoyed Typing. I thought it was clever, smart, and bananas in the best way and it got my vote. But I saw how many people loved the Lockwood and figured that‘s the way the wind was blowing. 3y
Suet624 @merelybookish I found that interesting too. 3y
Suet624 Very happy about this. 3y
Addison_Reads I've only read the Lockwood and loved it, but I can certainly see where it wouldn't be for everyone. The other book my local library just got in, so I'm excited to read it soon. I'm nervous about tomorrow because the Ozeki is my favorite and I know it's a long shot, but I'm hoping it moves on. 3y
Chelsea.Poole This was a good match…very happy to see No One advance. 3y
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