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Green Dot
Green Dot: One of the best books you will read all year' Elizabeth Day | Madeleine Gray
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'Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give Green Dot all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year' Elizabeth Day 'Witty as Fleabag, psychologically insightful as Sally Rooney - everyone will be talking about Green Dot' Lucie Whitehouse Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties. Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far. Until she meets Arthur. He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office - the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in - he is a source of much-needed sustenance. And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life. Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
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Night_Reader
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Author Talks with Madeleine Gray - so excited to have a signed copy. 🥳

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Daily
Pickpick

This may be a good book for you if you relate to Tang's ecological vision. By being in audiobook form it allows the listener to be more in the narrative, creating an immersive experience that lets listeners ponder the relationship between ecological places and human places.....
Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6615828462

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BittersweetBooks
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…this disquiet I have long reckoned with as my most permanent companion: it comes from a place of wanting. And to want is a hopeful thing. It‘s the most hopeful thing, really📱

Time is everywhere, it is everything. Time is literally all there is ⏰

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Night_Reader
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Pickpick

3.8/5 🌟

Initially put off by yet another tale of a disaffected 20-year-old lacking motivation, I hesitated to continue. However, I'm glad I persisted because after 100 pages, the narrative gains momentum, and I became invested in her entanglement. Despite the familiar setup, the story proved to be a rewarding read overall.

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Night_Reader
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Paws-ing to Share: Currently reading 'Green Dot' by Madeleine Gray. 📚

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mjtwo
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Mehso-so

29 Mar-4 Apr 24 (audiobook)
A directionless girl in her 20s embarks on an affair with a married workmate. I found the protagonist self-indulgent and delusional and the married man an incomprehensible egotist whose only motivation seems to be a younger, adoring body. It did make me reminisce about a friend in a very similar situation in her 20s. Where did his wife think he was when he was eating very average dinners in my Fitzroy sharehouse?

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VRM1975
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Loved this book so much, the hype is all true! Sad to finish it

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CarolynM
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Mehso-so

The story of a love affair between a 20something looking for direction in life & an older married man. The writing is sharp, & kind of funny (although not always my sense of humour) & if I‘d read it as a teenager or even in my twenties I think it might have broken my heart. At my advanced age, though, I found the narrator a bit too self sabotaging, the man in question unattractive in every way & the love impossible to believe in. #ozfiction

MrsMalaprop Almost bought this one the other day. I‘m trying to choose our next book club read. 8mo
CarolynM @MrsMalaprop It‘s my book group‘s current read. I‘ll be interested to hear what everyone else thinks about it, but I doubt it will be a very long discussion. 8mo
squirrelbrain Great review - I‘m glad now that I didn‘t power through the annoyingly formatted ARC….sounds like the book was annoying enough in itself! 🙄 8mo
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CarolynM @squirrelbrain It wasn‘t annoying, the writing is good, but I‘m too old to get invested in that sort of story. 8mo
Cathythoughts Great review! I have this sample on my kindle. It‘s good to hear your review, I‘ll be giving it a miss. 👍🏻♥️ 8mo
Reggie I have a friend who is making out with some man in his office. He says he and the wife are separated but guess where he‘s still living?!!!!!! (I gave an oh please but I held on to the impending eye roll) And I just tried to keep the judgement and disappointment out of my voice as I tell her this is no good. I could understand this in our 20s but we‘re 2 decades on, ughhhh. So your review, totally relatable right now. 8mo
CarolynM @Reggie What can you do🤷🏻‍♀️ I hope your friend doesn‘t get hurt too badly. 8mo
mjtwo Great review. This is exactly how I felt about it - I didn‘t mind the writing but could not invest in the characters or the relationship. 7mo
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squirrelbrain
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I was going to read the tagged #netgalley #arc next, but not sure I can cope with this.

Each ‘chapter‘ is only a few paragraphs long (also annoying in its own way!) and this sentence appears at every chapter change, so it‘s there 2 or 3 times on every page…. 😠

I‘ll delete it and download it again - if it‘s still the same I‘m giving up.

MicheleinPhilly Not to mention that paragraph is laughably bad. 10mo
squirrelbrain I hadn‘t even read the paragraph @MicheleinPhilly 🤣 - hmmm might just decide not to read this one…. It does sound a bit of a ‘millennial‘ book. 🤔 10mo
rockpools Oh for goodness sake! Why put out an ARC if it‘s unreadable? Although @MicheleinPhilly is right - maybe they don‘t actually *want* you to read on! 10mo
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MicheleinPhilly @squirrelbrain @rockpools Like WTF is a “life couch”? Is that what you lie on when you‘re talking to your life coach? 🥴 #dadjokes 10mo
Megabooks Yikes! 10mo
squirrelbrain I looked up life couch on Google and it said ‘Are you sure you don‘t mean life coach?‘ 🤣 There is such a thing, apparently, but v obscure and it means a couch where you think about life decisions. Or maybe I‘m not twenty two anymore more….. 🤷‍♀️ @MicheleinPhilly @rockpools 10mo
Birdsong28 Email Allen and Ullwin as they might have a better copy as I had an issue with an arc once and I emailed the publisher and they sent me another one. To be honest it was one they sent me via email so I knew who to contact but it might be worth asking. 📚📖 10mo
squirrelbrain Thanks @Birdsong28 - a similar thing happened recently with Wellness and I deleted it, re-downloaded it and it was fine. I‘m not sure I even want to read this one now though, after reading that first paragraph! 🤣 10mo
Hooked_on_books Wow, that would drive me crazy! 10mo
CarolynM I assume you didn‘t bother with this in the end. Probably a good decision, it is, indeed, a “millennial” book. 8mo
squirrelbrain No I didn‘t @CarolynM - I kept seeing great reviews for it, so I was torn but it sounds like I made the right choice! 8mo
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keepingupwiththepenguins
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Green Dot is also full to the brim with dark, wry humour. I loved it. I laughed out loud, a lot. I particularly enjoyed the fun little meta nods to the format that Gray sprinkles throughout the narrative. The only thing that struck me as unrealistic was the fact that Hera‘s office didn‘t hot-desk. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/green-dot-madeleine-gray/

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