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BarbaraBB
The New Me | Halle Butler
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Mehso-so

Milly has a depressing temp job in a depressing office. The rest of het life is depressing too. She lives alone, with no friends or hobby‘s. So Milly has the right to whine. And whining she does. The comparison with Moshfegh‘s My Year of Rest and Relaxation comes up, but that one is much better. Although I did feel sorry for Milly, especially because she wrote such sincere job application emails and was treated unfairly.

#Bookspin

alisiakae I was about ready to say this would be a great pick for the Booked #wineorwhine prompt, but that was last year! 🤪 (edited) 4y
Moonprismpower The temp job reminds me of the movie Clockwatchers. Four women all temps trying to make it in life. It‘s a bit depressing but Parker Posey and Toni Collette star in it. 4y
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Cinfhen Is that snow in your background?? Sorry book was only ok 4y
BarbaraBB @4thhouseontheleft I was looking for that prompt too 🤣 4y
BarbaraBB @Moonprismpower It does sound similar indeed but I don‘t know the movie. 4y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen It is snow... while spring is in the air with you we‘re having the coldest winter in years! ❄️☃️ 4y
Kalalalatja It is one of the coldest winters here too 🥶🥶 4y
BarbaraBB @Kalalalatja Are you having snow too? It is -15° C here ? 4y
Cinfhen It‘s unusually warm here / it‘s been in the 70‘s everyday for over 2 weeks already☀️I‘m NOT complaining 4y
Kalalalatja Yep, snowstorms in some parts of the country (luckily not near me... yet) 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
emilyhaldi Even with this so-so review, your synopsis has me very drawn to this book and miserable Millie 😂 4y
Hooked_on_books Fabulous picture! 😍 4y
Ruthiella Oh, I loved this one! I‘ve yet to read the Moshfegh, but I will! 4y
Megabooks Lovely picture, mediocre book! ❤️❤️ 4y
BarbaraBB @emilyhaldi I can totally see why @Ruthiella loved it, maybe you will too. Milly has some sharp observations of her coworkers and life in general 4y
LeahBergen Eee! Look at the snow there! 👏🏻 4y
BarbaraBB @LeahBergen Are you having snow too? 4y
LeahBergen Oh, yes! Quite a bit lately. 😊 4y
batsy Such a gorgeous, evocative photo. 4y
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emilyhaldi
The Liar | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
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And with my final book of 2020 finished today, I completed #booked2020 🎉
✅Makes you LOL- My Family & Other Animals
✅About Genocide- Ordinary Men
✅Animal on Cover- Owen Meany
#wineorwhine- The Liar
✅Gothic Horror- Dracula
✅Bottom of your TBR-Frog Music

BarbaraBB Did you like Owen Meany? 4y
emilyhaldi @BarbaraBB Can I be honest?? I don‘t hate many things but I hated Owen meany 🤭 It seems to be very loved on Litsy but Owen drove me nuts!! I alternated between audio and print and the audio squeaky voice was too much for me....perhaps if I did print only I would have felt differently??? (edited) 4y
Cinfhen Woohoo 🎉 🙌🏻
congrats on completing #Booked2020 💗This is your #OfficialFinalEntry 🎊WELL DONE 😁🌈🥳
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Cinfhen I LOVED Owen but THE LIAR was HORRIBLE 😖😫 4y
BarbaraBB Owen on audio must be horrible! That voice! In print it already drove me crazy (all those capitals!). My husband literally threw the book in a corner and I couldn‘t blame him. But I ended up loving the book. That was a long long time ago though. 🤷🏻‍♀️😀 4y
emilyhaldi I think I threw the book at one point too!!! I was certainly yelling obscenities 🤣🤣 @BarbaraBB 4y
emilyhaldi @Cinfhen something we can agree on!!! I think The Liar is my most hated book EVER!!! It makes you wonder how some books make it to publishing?!?!? 🤮 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job! Sorry it was such a mixed bunch! 📚♥️🎉 4y
Reviewsbylola The Liar was truly incredible, as far as how bad it was. 4y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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For the first time, I read completely out of order this year. Seems fitting for 2020, when mood reading was a dire necessity. Here‘s my full run-down, since I‘m not entering the drawing (obvi). If you‘re posting a #Booked2020 #FallWrapUp, please just include completed prompts you haven‘t submitted before. You have until Jan 3, 2021 and we draw / announce by the 5th!

1. Millennial - The Bone Season
2. Hat on Cover - Women Talking
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

BarbaraTheBibliophage 3. #LiveandLearn - Material Value
4. Hollywood - Play it as it Lays
5. #CoverCrush - Of Blood and Bone
6. Finish in a Day - My Lost Family
7. LOL - Nothing to See Here
8. Parent Child Memoir - In Pieces
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BarbaraTheBibliophage 9. Tartan Noir - Knots and Crosses
10. Genocide - The Sandcastle Girls
11. Pan Asian - Sorcerer to the Crown
12. Animal on Cover - Tell the Wolves I‘m Home
13. Red, White, Blue - Doing Harm
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BarbaraTheBibliophage 14. Eccentric MC - Drive Your Plow ...
15. YA novel by POC - The Hate You Give
16. #WineorWhine - Wiving
17. Banned Book - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
18. Armchair Travel - The Missing Sister
19. #ThinkPink - Cleopatra: A Life
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BarbaraTheBibliophage 20. Gothic Horror - The Lottery and Other Stories
21. Set in India - Gun Island
22. #BookClubWorthy - Girl, Woman, Other
23. New in 2020 - Valentine
24. Bottom of your TBR - Autobiography of a Yogi
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Cinfhen Well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼I don‘t think I read in season either #RebelReader 💗🎉😘 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen What a pair of rebels we are!! 💓 4y
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Julsmarshall
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Mehso-so

This book was interesting with glimpses into the world of wine that I loved but also moved really slowly in places and went off on tangents that I just didn‘t care about. If it wasn‘t for a challenge and I wasn‘t reading in audio, I likely wouldn‘t have finished it. #Booked2020 #wineorwhine @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Cinfhen I felt the same way... I was completely underwhelmed 4y
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Julsmarshall
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Trying this one again for the #wineorwhine prompt. I didn‘t finish it on audio the first time I checked it out. Will try again :) It has a lot of info about smells. #Booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Cinfhen I wanted to love this book but ultimately I was disappointed/ I just don‘t get the ambition over being a CORK DORK 😜 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Any luck? Sounds like it‘s had some mixed reviews ... 🍷 4y
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TheKidUpstairs
Drama | Raina Telgemeier
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I'm very behind on posting reviews, but I did complete the Summer prompts for #Booked2020! On to the Fall!

13. Red/White/Blue type on cover: Grown-up Pose by Sonya Lalli
14. Eccentric MC: The City We Became by NK Jemisin
15. YA novel by a POC: Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
16. #WineorWhine: The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker
17. Banned Book: Drama by Raina Telgemeier
18. Armchair Travel: The Man with the Black Valise by John Goddard

Cinfhen Woohoo 🙌🏻This is your #OfficialThirdQuarterEntry 🎊🎊🎊#Booked2020 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great choices and accomplishment! ❤ ⭐ 📕 4y
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hes7
Party of Two | Jasmine Guillory
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My #Booked2020 Summer reads:

-#RedWhiteorBlueTypeonCover: Party of Two
-#EccentricMC: The Widow of Rose House
-#YANovelbyaPOC: I Wanna Be Where You Are
-#WineorWhine: A Court of Frost and Starlight
-#BannedBook: Animal Farm
-#ArmchairTravel: Lady Pirate

alisiakae Great job! 🙌🏽 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great choices and accomplishment! ❤ ⭐ 📕

(and sorry it took me so long to get here and comment ... )
4y
Cinfhen Hi, it looks like I missed your summer post roundup ....I‘m so sorry....I‘m adding these to the final drawing 4y
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jmtrivera
Untitled | Anonymous
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Sorry for the late #Booked2020 my friends! House renovations and prepping for maternity leave have warped my sense of time! But I realized I'm almost caught up again!

I got #RedWhiteorBlueTypeonCover, #EccentricMC, #YANovelbyaPOC, #WineorWhine, #BannedBook, and went back and covered #TartanNoir!

Also realized I covered a few from Fall already, so I'll have time to finish catching up before the end of the year! Yay!

Cinfhen Woohoo 🙌🏻This is your #OfficialThirdQuarterEntry 🎊🎊🎊#Booked2020 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great choices and accomplishment! ❤ ⭐ 📕

(and sorry it took me so long to get here and comment ... )
4y
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sprainedbrain
Untitled | Unknown
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I finished my summer books for #Booked2020 😃

Blue type: Chosen Ones

Eccentric main character: Elinor Oliphant

YA by POC: The Poet X

#WineOrWhine: The Lost Vintage

Banned book: Lady Chatterly‘s Lover

Armchair travel: Sharks in the Time of Saviors

alisiakae Great job!! 🙌🏽🎉 4y
Cinfhen Woohoo 🙌🏻congrats on completing #Summer #Booked2020 👙🌞🍦📚This is your #OfficialThirdQuarterEntry 🎊🎊🎊
4y
Cathythoughts Great choices ! Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
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VeganCleopatra Do you happen to know when this quarter is due by? 4y
sprainedbrain @VeganCleopatra I don‘t, but I bet @Cinfhen can answer that! 4y
Cinfhen You have until October 4 to post your results @VeganCleopatra and just make sure to tag us so we don‘t accidentally miss it 👻 @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job!! 🥳📚♥️👊🏻 (I just picked up Sharks on sale ... we were supposed to go to the Big Island in November. Maybe I‘ll read this then ... 😓) 4y
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Laughterhp
Melmoth | Sarah Perry
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And with that, I have finished #Booked2020 - Summer Prompts

About Genocide 👍🏻
Eccentric MC 💚
YA Novel by POC 👎🏻
#WineorWhine 👎🏻
Banned Book 💚
#ArmChairTravel 💚

And I‘m also almost done with Fall already! I just need #ThinkPink which I‘m not sure what I‘m going to read yet and Bottom of your TBR, so we‘ll see what that is 😂

Cinfhen Woohoo 🙌🏻congrats on completing #Summer #Booked2020 👙🌞🍦📚This is your #OfficialThirdQuarterEntry 🎊🎊🎊 4y
Cinfhen 4/6 isn‘t too bad.... 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Great job!! 🥳📚♥️👊🏻 4y
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