bailedI really wanted to like this book, but this is now the second book by Penelope Lively that I've bailed on. This seems to be an esteemed book, but it just wasn't for me.
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bailed#AAM At 36% there‘s nothing I dis-like about it but nothing I particularly like either. I also bailed on The Extraordinaries after just 1 ch. I‘m surprised because I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea & Under the Whispering Door. I have a hold on Somewhere Beyond the Sea but that‘s months out. Hoopla has tons of other options & they all sound really different, but I‘m not exactly drawn to the blurbs so I‘m wondering if it‘s worth trying one more?
bailedI read the first 80 pages, but nothing really happend.
bailedI've given up. His imagery and the details about (alllll) of his characters are interesting but all of those stories still haven't started to come together and I'm frustrated. I had to force myself to pick this up the last few times I read it. I see glimmers of something I'd really like but I'm through trying to force it.
bailedDNF. It was very funny but I got increasingly uncomfortable as the humour seemed to be more and more blatantly mocking the characters' physical and mental infirmities.
bailedThis actually seems like an interesting book, but the audio is so bad I couldn‘t take it anymore after 2 hours. Much of the action takes place in the current day, but the voice of the audio reader feels like the 1940s. Maybe I‘ll try it again someday in print.
bailedI couldn‘t get into this one. I really tried. Not for me.
bailedAnd, yeah, that's a big ol' #HailTheBail
I thought maybe 20 years after my first attempt to read this that I could actually do it. Nah-uh. Could bearly keep my eyes open for 15 pages 🥱
Thankfully, it's finally off my TBR shelf!
60/62
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bailedWas duped by Junji Ito‘s artwork! I was drawn to the graphics immediately, but read 3 stories and had to bail. They all kind of ended the same… “and then she was alright.” Or “ The girl never appeared again.” There was no explanation or substance to the few stories I read. The blurb said these were based off true stories, but they lacked any details. It felt like something I would make up on the spot to scare a group of kids around a bonfire 😭
bailedAfter a thought-provoking first chapter dealing with the mistrust of memory, this went quickly downhill for me interest-wise. I made it to 90 pages. I don‘t like the characters, regardless of the satirical tone. Also, Martha, the apparent MC of the first section, gets shifted to the only woman character going forward. Discussions of her past sex life and the focus on her current sexual relationship are so boring at best.
