Welcome to Litsy!

Well, here I go once again, starting my IRL bookclub pick just a few days before our meeting. Oops. 😆

A bittersweet account of one manchild dealing with a breakup he didn‘t want and didn‘t see coming.

I‘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?!

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Super 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.

Yes, I loved GOOD MATERIAL. Read it AND listened to the audio.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Struggling 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🤷‍♀️

Put 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?

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