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squirrelbrain
Rouge | Mona Awad
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Mehso-so

#LitsyToB24

There‘s not much I can add to other Littens‘ fabulous reviews on this book. I went into it expecting to dislike it, as I really didn‘t ‘get‘ Bunny.

I did prefer Rouge but, each time I thought I understood an analogy or a metaphor, something even more absurd happened that just didn‘t make sense to me. I just don‘t think that excessive absurdity works for me.

Unfortunately this is my least favourite so far on our Turkey short list.

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Ruthiella I loved Bunny, but this one was too much for me too. Still, I know others loved it, which is great. Vive la difference! 11mo
jhod I loved Bunny (on audio though so perhaps that was why?) But read about 70 pages of this on holiday and then never went back.... 11mo
TheBookHippie I bailed this morning 😂😅🤷🏻‍♀️ 11mo
CatLass007 I‘m sorry to hear that you didn‘t have a stellar experience with this book but sometimes it happens. What‘s next for you from our Turkey List? With all the mixed reviews I was hoping to check it out via Libby, but it‘s not available. (edited) 11mo
CBee I bailed on Bunny, so I‘m not running to grab this one 😂 11mo
BarbaraBB I am with @Ruthiella and you. This one was too much for me but I love that @Megabooks and Cindy loved it. Vive la difference indeed! 11mo
squirrelbrain @TheBookHippie - I only read it / finished it because I‘m a #listcompletist. Maybe my New Year‘s resolution should be to bail more! 11mo
squirrelbrain @CatLass007 - The Rachel Incident is next for me, on audio as I have a fair bit of driving to do this week. 11mo
TheBookHippie @CBee I bailed that one too you‘d think one would learn 😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️ 11mo
TheBookHippie @squirrelbrain I bail allll the time. It‘s very freeing. 11mo
CBee @TheBookHippie I just couldn‘t keep going, it was too much 😳 11mo
Megabooks As @BarbaraBB said, I did enjoy this, but to each their own! I am looking forward to more Helen bails (and bail reviews) in 2024! 🤞🏻😂 11mo
Hooked_on_books I was a list completist for the TOB in the past, and while I enjoyed the tournament having read all the books, I really didn‘t enjoy reading certain ones (including Awad‘s previous book). So, if I know a particular author isn‘t for me, I‘m just not going to be a completist anymore. Hence me planning to not read this one. I completely understand your instinct to complete, though! 11mo
Caroline2 Yeah I bailed on Bunny. Think I‘ll get the kindle sample for this one…. 👍 11mo
TheBookHippie @CBee 😅💯 11mo
kwmg40 I liked All's Well and was looking forward to reading more Mona Awad, but given the comments here, I'll move it lower on the priority list. 11mo
CatLass007 If I‘m reading a book series I‘m a completist. I used to be a completist about everything, but Litsy gave me permission to bail and it‘s very liberating! 11mo
CBee @CatLass007 same here! 😊 11mo
CatLass007 @CBee ☺️ 11mo
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LeahBergen
Falling Animals | Sheila Armstrong
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Thank you for this wonderful birthday bundle, @Cathythoughts ! ❤️

The tagged book sounds so intriguing and I love the other two that you picked because you thought I‘d like the covers. I do! 😆 I‘m a Jane Gardam fan but I haven‘t read this one!

The pretty reading gloves will be much appreciated in this old house this winter and, as always, I loved your sweet note. You‘re a dear friend. 😘

squirrelbrain Lovely gifts! I have Falling Animals to read shortly as it‘s featuring on the BBC‘s Between the Covers. 13mo
CarolynM Lovely😍 13mo
LeahBergen @squirrelbrain Oh, really? I‘ll look that up! 13mo
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LeahBergen @CarolynM Indeed! 🥰 13mo
squirrelbrain Here‘s the full list. Being a #listcompletist, I‘m reading them all! In fact Falling Animals is next on my list. https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/between-the-covers-series-seven It starts on Monday 6th Nov. 13mo
LeahBergen @squirrelbrain Thank you!! 13mo
batsy How lovely! 😍 I must read Gardam. 13mo
LeahBergen @batsy I‘m sure you‘d like her! 13mo
Balibee146 Belated birthday wishes xx 13mo
LeahBergen @Balibee146 Thank you! 😘 13mo
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squirrelbrain
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Pickpick

I only requested this from #netgalley as it features on the upcoming BBC series of Between The Covers. I thought from the cover that it would be a fairly standard crime novel and wasn‘t overly inspired to read it. (But #listcompletist here! 👋)

Once I started it though, I couldn‘t put it down. Based on a true story (don‘t Google it though…spoilers!) we see Zina, a recent Cypriot immigrant to London who hardly speaks any English, accused of a ⬇️

squirrelbrain ….terrible crime. Eva, also an immigrant Greek speaker, becomes her translator and starts to grow closer to Zina. Both women have traumas in their past which we learn about as we follow the court case right through to its conclusion. Highly recommended. 13mo
squirrelbrain Published in the UK 9th Nov. #unspeakableactsofzinap 13mo
TrishB Looks good 👍🏻 13mo
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BarbaraBB Definitely looking good! 13mo
Cathythoughts Sounds good. Stacked 13mo
Caroline2 Looking forward to getting to this one!! 😀 13mo
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JenP
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Nope. This is the kind of writing style I don‘t care for. This will be a struggle for me. 😬

Bklover This reads like someone writing an essay and using all the big impressive words they could find. 1y
JenP @Bklover it feels pretentious and overwritten to me but the book gets a lot of acclaim. I‘m hating it lol 1y
Bklover You have my sympathy. I think I‘d hate it too. 1y
squirrelbrain I hate-read this right to the end, because I‘m a #listcompletist. It‘s definitely bottom of my Booker longlist at the moment, with only 2 to go. 1y
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