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Completely bonkers! 😲😂 But, I really liked it.

I wanted something different, something funny, but also quirky and this was perfect. I've never read this author before but I will definitely try something else by her now.

The pacing is uneven at times but there is great commentary mixed in with the wacky humor.

First, the cover 🤩🤩 Nutting writes wonderfully nutty books. While I didn‘t like this as much as Tampa, her voice and POV are distinctive and interesting.

Hazel has a problem. She‘s arrived on her dad‘s doorstep because her husband Byron, a tech CEO, threatened to install a chip in her head to merge their thoughts. Her dad wants privacy, especially since he just got a sex robot. With comically horrible coping skills, she fights to leave Bryon.

Alissa Nutting is insane. And absolutely hilarious. She is insane and smart and very funny. And so was this book. 🐬💕💻☠️

Used bookstore score 🐬🌴

About to curl up and finish this one. Then going to watch the series just in time for the Books and Beers event tomorrow night!

What a breath of fresh air this book is and a mind f*#k! Thanks for putting it on my radar @Reggie
It‘s a cautionary tale about letting technology take things too far in our world. It also acknowledges that women are somebodies not somebody‘s. This was weird and wonderful! 🐬🐬🐬

#bookmail! I wanted to #reread this before watching the HBO series. My hardcover copy is in storage.

Did anyone else see this book was made into a series? It‘s so strange I can‘t even imagine, but am really intrigued...

TBR. Getting books from the EU is a pain in the ass and requires a middle man. I feel like a smuggler.

If you want unexpected dolphin erotica, look no further. In a world of remakes and recycled tropes, Alissa Nutting‘s writing is consistently original and amazingly funny. The speeches her characters make in the protagonist‘s fantasies are raw satires, sharp and ironic in that they showcase reality posing as fantasy.

This book is about human connection or more precise, a lack of it. The characters are attracted to things like sex dolls, dolphins, waking over the dead and technology gadgets but have no clue how to connect to eachother. This leads to a lot of funny situations with relatively normal Hazel, the MC, in the midst of them. In the end however it‘s tragic-comical at the most.

#Booked2020 #Covercrush
#ATY2020 Book printed in a prime year (2017)

#WeeklyForecast 12/20

Another attempt to read We Cast a Shadow this week for the #ToB2020. Also lined up I have Made for Love, to use for both #Booked2020 and #ATY2020.

First I have to finish Miss Pettigrew though, one of the #1001books list.
Lastly , on audio I am listening to another of that list: Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

Welp, I loved it. Lots of reviews focused on the dolphin-love, but I thought the dystopian themes of tech-gone-wrong were interesting, too. (Read about Elon Musk‘s brain chip plans the same week I read this book, and how thousands of Swedes are using their hand as a credit card, health monitor and key card via an implanted chip.) Hilarious, disturbing and sweet book all at the same time.

I read half of the book, and had lots of witty (if I do say so myself) markups in it for #LMPBC... but then my darling puppy destroyed it (and my purple pen) when I left it on the end table for an hour unattended. So I finished on audio and am choosing a new book to send. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This book is weird, subversive, and hilarious. Alissa Nutting is not afraid to go to the strange, and she‘s not for everyone, but she‘s definitely for me.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Current work lunch book. This book is hitting a sweet spot I didn't know I had. Preposterous/weird yet firmly rooted in reality. Darkly hilarious. Reminds me, in feel, of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Trying to parse it out over my lunch breaks but will probably cave and take it home on Friday. Would love to hear any recs in the same vein 🙂🐬💻😯🌴

This book was absolutely bizarre. I‘m not sure what possessed me to even finish it, but whoa. Freakin weird man.

Kinda bummed to read this on my Nook since the print cover is so colorful! Started last night when I couldn‘t stay still in bed, so read the first two chapters while pacing my living room. Working from home today which means some work but with reading breaks!

#popsugarreadingchallenge #loveinthetitle

#showme My Library TBR

Two days into the month and already I‘m reading #offTBR #readingrebel #coverlove

Holiday book haul, part one #vacayallday

So after an encounter in the ocean, a character in this book falls #crazyinlove with dolphins. As usual with Alissa‘s writing, some of the over the top stuff seems funny, but that‘s just so she can Trojan horse some deeper stuff into your core later. #heatofjuly.

Just trying to spread the news that Book Outlet is having a summer reading sale for the next couple of days! Here are the books that I splurged on! The covered up ones might just be for some special littens 😉📚 #bookoutlet #bookhaul

Reposting my "yay, I hit 100K" giveaway in case anyone missed it and wants to enter. Entries accepted until Friday 4/13 at Noon EST for US/Canada.

The Prize:
- The pictured stack of 10 books
- A $15 gift card for either Amazon or B&N (winner's choice)

How to enter:
- Make a new post about two books near the top of your TBR (one backlist and one new or soon-to-be release)
- Tag me @swishandflick
- Use hashtag #swishandwin

Good luck!! ❤️

Just finished this extremely weird and quirky novel; I gave it 4⭐️. There was plenty of incisive observational humor and none of the characters could really be considered conventionally likable. I thought the writing was very skillful and the plot moved quickly, but the end got very anticlimactic and sometimes things veered from interestingly absurd into silly. If you don't mind a lot of strangeness, you might enjoy this one.

This book is just so weird and wonderful and brilliant. I‘ve been reading it on and off since #24in48 . And it‘s because I never wanted it to end. The last time I remember feeling similarly was with Katherine Dunn‘s Geek Love. This book is for people who like things odd and quirky and far from politically correct. It isn‘t classically feminist in a Roxane Gay kinda way, but it challenges the idea of women as property without saying it outright.

1. A nice boring, now empty, glass of water.
2. Girlfriends on AcornTV- adore British television
3. Tagged book. Love it!
4. Cold enough it snowed but not cold enough for it to stick
5. Lots of tattoos... ears pierced just once
#humpdaypost @MinDea

I like the idea of Octavia Butler channeling feminist thoughts into peoples' minds!

This book tho...🐬🐬🐬... seriously?!?!?

Alternate Review:

Call me crazy, call me a prude, but I never got past the fact that Hazel‘s elderly father (passionately! continuously! & openly!) stuck it in sex toy dolls (PLURAL), and the discussion of his “fluids.”

The end.

Masquerading as “realistic fiction” (with the world‘s most infinitesimal dash of sci-fi/dystopia), the characters & situations in “Made for Love” are too ridiculous to actually conjure empathy & connection. So while I alternately tittered & recoiled from certain tidbits of writing, I never felt drawn in or wholly emotionally-invested.

*Cont‘d in the comments below.👇🏻

“Melted cheese is a culinary veil... a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.”

😂🧀😂

“Hazel always took a geological approach to epiphany - if she didn‘t understand something, it was because she was too new at it; she just needed to get more layers of “experience crust” to put weight on the memories and information she did have so the answers would squeeze out.”

Carbing and caffeinating up in a surprisingly good coffee shop in a Kansas City hotel lobby. #calmbeforethestorm #missthesquirrels

“Nothing was worse for one‘s emotional comfort than scrupulous observance, Hazel reminded herself.”

Agree or disagree?

I‘m having such a hard time focusing on this book! 😫 I don‘t know if it‘s me or it... but the fact remains. The thing is, when I can sit down with it, it absolutely makes me giggle (and CRINGE!). Has anyone else read this & felt similarly or am I alone in this? (It seems like everyone else has adored it!)

Whatevs Valentine‘s Day! Just try one more curveball and I swear I‘ll phone it in tomorrow! #lemmeread

#BookHeartChallenge .... #BookHeartBust What happens when the book cooperates but the lap cat runs interference!?! This. @PatriciaU does this count? 😝

“A single beam of light shot down from the ceiling to illuminate a toilet. It looked like the toilet was floating in the middle of outer space... Hazel walked over & sat down on it, disturbed to find that her pee didn‘t make a sound; what did make a sound was a whoosh & a rush of heat between her legs upon her urine stream‘s conclusion. Like she‘d just been wiped dry by a sunbeam.”

I‘m not crazy... this sounds kinda nice, right? 😆🚽☀️

I picked this up because Rainbow Rowell recommended it. I can tell that I‘m eventually going to find it really funny & engaging... but right now, it‘s suuuuper difficult to get through the first few pages of “my elderly dad bought a sex doll & wants me to recognize her personhood.” 🙈🤮😆 SOS!

This cat is just so weird. The smaller the platform, the better! #catsoflitsy

Weird in all the right ways.

Weekend TBR: After a crazy busy December, I'm spending time on the Northern California coast reflecting on 2017. I think that fans of a Carl Hiaasen romp will enjoy this fun book. Happy New Year 🎉🎉

I liked a few books that came out this year; Most notably- Forest Dark and Made for Love, but I didn't have a favorite. #BookOfTheYear #ReindeerReads

This book was really strange and slightly uncomfortable at times.

Check out @vivastory for a great review!!!

Weird and wonderful story about attraction and desire and free will. Hazel escapes her tech-billionaire husband to move back in with father, who has just started a new relationship with a sex doll. And don‘t even get me started on the side character with a dolphin problem.

4. Favorite Book Cover of 2017: Made for Love

Just loved how retro and fun this cover is. Definitely against the grain of what‘s popular in book covers today. Goes well with the wacko story inside. Dolphins play an unexpectedly large part in the plot of the book.

#allthebooksof2017