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PROS
1. She conducted interviews with people who have autism to give a broader perspective. As long as your perspective/exercise is found somewhere in there even partially you‘re good to go.
2. A not too bad discussion on situational mutism.
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Chapter 29: marriage through the eyes of Casaubon? #hardpass #justno #absolutelynot #whatapig #andnowweknowwhytheycalledlydgate #notthattherewasanydoubt #whatwasinthatletter #igottaknow #pemberlittens

This is a deeply weird book. The main storyline is riveting in places, but will then spin off somewhere else and never quite pick up the thread again. Some of the side characters are just awesome, but you kinda wonder what they‘re doing there at all. By the end, it was a serious slog and I just wanted it to be over. #toblonglist #whatweretheythinking

I very rarely pan a book and it makes me sad to do so with this one. It may have been a so-so had it only been half of its 900pages. Honestly, I don‘t do myself any favours by struggling to bail. I think I (quite) enjoyed from about page 200 to 500 and by then I was too far in to give up.

I was going to say it contains the usual sexual and scatological humour, but I think a lot of what was missing in this book was the humour ⬇️

Shopping the audible sale reminded me of this. My library had it, which was good because I didn‘t enjoy it that much. I‘m surprised it was longlisted for the Booker. 🤨 Macleod Andrews is a favorite narrator, but even he couldn‘t make me love this novella about an awkward, fussy introvert.

Micah is the Tech Hermit repairman and lives a fastidious life that barely leaves room for his girlfriend. When an ex‘s son shows up, he reevaluates his life.

This book is pretty problematic. No only the fat shaming I shared before but also the flimsy plot. It is about a woman who comes between a group of three friends and their partners. Normally, I don‘t care whether characters are likable, but the interloper has no inner life that made her evilness interesting. In the end, her motives were ridiculous and juvenile.

However, Ronke (the “fat” friend) is a gem! Otherwise 👎🏻

⭐️ Even the amazing Bahni Turpin couldn‘t save this one. Nothing felt believable. To elicit fear, there needs to be *some* plausibility. It was very surface-level; just gory, not scary nor suspenseful. I didn‘t care about the teenaged victims or the killer‘s (weak) motive. Maybe it‘s better on screen, but someone will have to let me know because I‘m not giving it two more hours of my life.

I was waiting to see if I would finish anything today before posting but it‘s now a quarter after four and I haven‘t read a single page. I‘m guessing I‘m not going to finish anything else. Still I had a really good week. I finished four books, bailed on one, and have three in progress. The audiobook of Dracul is dragging, but The Invited has sucked me in. 🖤 #bookreport

Do you remember inflating the word count in your high school essays by the saying the same thing twice but phrasing it differently? Imagine a whole book of that. She would say the same thing twice yet in different ways. 😏

While taken as a whole arc the story of Vitale‘s addiction and sobriety is interesting, the actual writing is atrocious! I can‘t recommend this #AudiblePlus title. 👎🏻

⭐️⭐️ This self-published memoir needed heavy editing. Francis CoCo was admitted to a psychiatric hospital at age 14. This is her story of that time written decades later, but in present-tense as her teenaged self. An unstable family undoubtedly played a big part, but she claims to have never known why she was there, so there‘s no real resolution, and I‘m left wondering, what‘s the point? Nonetheless, I hope it was therapeutic to get it on paper.