pickI‘m was laughing and crying out loud while I read about The Madness that overtakes Andy when he is blindsided by Jen dumping him
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pickI‘m was laughing and crying out loud while I read about The Madness that overtakes Andy when he is blindsided by Jen dumping him
I read some, then skimmed some and then read the ending, and I do think Alderton did something really interesting here, but I just couldn't force myself through the incredibly depressing part to read the book as a whole.
Also, as with another book I read that was set right before lockdown, I found myself worrying about how the characters would manage with this horrible new challenge in front of them. Why do authors do this?!
#BookSpinBingo
pickSuper interesting to read about a break-up from the male perspective of a woman writer. To be in a similar stage of life I appreciated the honesty.
pickStruggling with how to rate this book. It's centered around a breakup, told 90% from the male perspective and his rollercoaster journey of how he dealt w/it. The writing was great. The subject was largely uninteresting to me personally. I have read multiple books from the female perspective of a breakup, so it was nice to have this out there choosing to tell the story in a different way-I don't think most guys are as emotionally 'woke' as him🤷♀️
pickPut this on library hold months ago - maybe I read a terrific review here? Was it on the #ToB_LongList? I admit, I was not fond of whiny broken-hearted Andy for the first quarter of the book, so I decided to read the ending (helped by someone who said we hear HER side of the story). Doing so entertained a conversation in my head of this book with both Liars and The Book of George.
#MenAndtheWomenWhoPutUpWithThem?
#ApplePie #FishPie #LitPie
eBooking this; said YES to it and took a few days to start and now have only a few days left on my library loan. It just feels far,far away from our current lives of watching the US govt/stuff becoming dismantled. #guygetsdumpedandfeelsSad #boohoohoo
so-soMaybe it's an "it's not you; it's me" situation, but I never really got into this novel. I laughed a few times, but it doesn't feel like "good material," I can't imagine it being a funny comedy show, and the MC---a man---doesn't read like a man to me. I finished it, so I didn't dislike it, I just didn't love it, either. A #tob25 longlist title that I don't mind not making the shortlist.
Am I in a reading slump? I feel like I might be in a reading slump. But for me that looks like audiobooking (the tagged) but not constantly and not really getting into any of my print books for...gosh, like 5 days. Maybe it's too early to declare a reading slump, but it feels slumpy for me.
This week I journeyed “north” to Essex, Vermont and visited Phoenix Books there. Among the books on the new paperbacks table? These gems. You really want to read GOOD MATERIAL and THE FROZEN RIVER. Also? I signed so many of my books! Thanks, Phoenix!
