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playasuave

playasuave

Joined May 2016

our lady of skepticism
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I love when you find a book where it feels like the author took the lines right out of you.

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Uganda Be Kidding Me | Chelsea Handler
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Pickpick

Funny, but not her best book.

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Uganda Be Kidding Me | Chelsea Handler
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She is the human incarnation of a night terror (and I love her).

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Super funny and very relatable stories of extreme depression and anxiety. It's so nice and relieving to read something I can relate to and resonate my awkward feelings with. Even better to laugh at them.

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Is mental illness memoir a genre? If it is, I think it's my favorite one.

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About 80% through right now. The first 25% was an exact novelization of the Disney movie Aladdin - I feel a little gyp'd that these aren't new representations of the classic characters, but rather just bound Disney fan fiction.

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Pretty Little Liars | Sara Shepard
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Read this bc I wanted something I could finish in about 2 hours and I used to watch the show. I feel like a prude, but I think these books are soooo inappropriate for YA girls. Everyone in the book is awful and mean and just general bad influences for the target audience.

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A Study in Charlotte | Brittany Cavallaro
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Boring and poorly strung together. For an added splash of WTF-ery, the author actually thanks ACD in her acknowledgements a la Anne Hathaway's Les Mis Oscars acceptance speech.

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A Study in Charlotte | Brittany Cavallaro
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Trying to knock out another quarter while the sun's out.

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A Study in Charlotte | Brittany Cavallaro
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About a quarter of the way into this one - not sure what I think yet. I am on a serious Sherlock kick right now, so this book fits in perfectly with that + my goal of only reading books by women writers in 2016.

TheBookDream What else have you read about Sherlock by women authors? If you don't mind my asking. 8y
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Mehso-so

Ani is a terribly unlikable narrator, despite her delving into her past traumas. I wanted to like her, but it was so hard. I was blind-sided by the shooting and really just confused by the use of that as a plot device. It felt like it had been copied and pasted into the story. Overall, it was "eh".

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The narrator is super, super unlikable so far.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | David Shafer
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Super engaging and very exciting. I loved the overlapping of each of the characters lives. I think of this book often and seriously hope there is a future film adaptation.

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All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven
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Mehso-so

Depressing as fuck.

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Girl Waits with Gun | Amy Stewart
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Started off slow & never really became the fast-paced thriller/mystery I was hoping for, but I still enjoyed it. Would make a great lazy beach or rainy weekend read.

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Panpan

Pandering and misogynistic! The worst "memoir" I have ever read.

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Deja Dead: A Novel | Kathy Reichs
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Mehso-so

This was my first KR book even though I love the show BONES. I was happy that the book was so different from the show - I didn't want to re-read the TV series. I wasn't too impressed with the mystery, though. I thought it was a little slow & boring in parts.