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1. This was a #BOTM bust
2. New Girl - this is my go-to “pick me up”
3. Coffee & yogurt (so I‘ll be hungry by 11 🤦🏻‍♀️)
4. EST
5. Green Midnight (I‘m loving everyone‘s band names!) 🤘🏼

#friyayintro @howjessreads

The reviews on Litsy & GR aren‘t great for this one, but I ended up loving it. Three friends, flawed & unlikable in different ways, find their lives on pause when they attempt to live a life “in health” in a house in rural Arkansas. We learn their self-destructive patterns even as they pretend to themselves that what they‘re doing has more meaning than it does. I found it incisive, darkly funny, and a fast read. #botm

No thanks. I read the first section and have no desire to go on.
#botm

I'm annoyed that I wasted a vacation book on this. To be fair, there was enough here that I finished it, rather than bailing... but it didn't go anywhere, or mean anything, in the end. Not worth the time.

My husband makes us St. Germain‘s with the watermelon we bought from the local truck stand off Rhode Island NE last night. Lucky me, indeed.

Back in the good old days, when #BOTM was generous, everyone in our bookclub got a free book credit because we disliked this book so much. 😆 #luckyyou #ishouldbesolucky #magicalmarch #marchintooz

#dumbthings
#marchintooz

I didn‘t meet my goal of 50 books, sigh. but this was the first year I set a number for the Goodreads challenge and tracked my progress, so now I have a better idea of a reasonable goal I can set for 2018. side note: my unpopular book opinion for 2017 is that I liked the widely-panned Lucky You. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂 #2017

You had to see this one coming for today's prompt, right??
#youngdumbandbroke
#leastfavoritebookaward
#noredeemingqualities
#decdays

Hey guys! I‘m not dead, just enjoying sometime in Mexico for Thanksgiving 😊 @dariazeoli expect a post card soon!!

I️ did not like this book. My review was so bad, that BOTM gave me a free book credit. #🍀 #emojinov

Reality Check: I have run out of room for places to store books. I have used all of my creativity and imagination. I have stacks and stacks of books stuffed under beds, hidden in lingerie drawers, in boxes behind doors, on the fireplace mantel, tiny stacks serving as the centerpiece on the dining room table, larger stacks performing as end tables next to the sofa and nightstands in every bedroom. What is a reader to do?

I can‘t decide how I feel about this book. It‘s a little difficult to get into, and the storyline is somewhat unique. I‘ve found upon finishing, I‘m wanting more, if for no other reason than I am unsatisfied with the ending. I found the characters interesting, but still seemed to be left wanting more. Great read for writers, who already have the creative juices flowing. For myself, I‘m still left unsure.

Up next...anyone read it?

Blah...a single word sums it all up. I never felt engaged by the narrative, but was too stubborn to walk away and bail. On the "plus" side, the typeset made it feel like the chapters moved quickly...so there's that... ⭐️

38% ?! Okay...a little nervous, but keeping an open mind.

I would like to extend this prompt to all of the characters in this book. #AmericanIdiot #Characters2017

More like Unlucky You! ??? I can't spend any more of my day on this ????! It's like they gave a mediocre college English student a book contract and said, "Here, write your life." I felt nothing but boredom and distaste for each of the characters. I'm sorry if you wasted a #botm credit on it. Thank goodness for libraries! Bailed at 66% #botmchallenge 20/25 I really tried. ??‍♀️

Trying to squeeze in one or two more for the #BOTMchallenge before next month's box gets here. I have this on #Hoopla and Exit West on Overdrive.

Jumping into yet another book this weekend but I wanted to make sure it was one I would keep reading outside in this great weather!

I know this book was divisive (to say the least and be kind) when it was a BOTM. But, what can I say? Y'all made me curious.

#BadRomance All of them. They're all bad. Bad, bad, bad. 😧 #LyricalApril

I didn't expect to like this book at the beginning. The angst and privilege of the characters seemed overwhelming but somehow Carter made each character relatable in an intriguing way. I really liked it by the end. A great, quiet novel with some serious heart.

Did I miss the point of this book? I kept reading because the writing was good and I was waiting for something to happen, but a whole lot of nothing happened.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, although I didn't quite understand the ending. Maybe I missed something. I enjoyed the writing, and found Ellie to be the most interesting person in the novel. There's a melancholy tone through out, but I tend to like books that aren't always happy and cheery.

I needed something light after finishing Allegedly last night. Please tell me this is a light read... upadate: I just read some of the reviews for this book. Many described it as depressing. I need something happy, funny and positive. Help!!

Forgot to tag this as a #LitsyAtoZ pick. So posting it again for #theLetterL.

Based on the number of negative reviews, I thought I would end up bailing on this book. Though I didn't love it, I didn't hate it either. It did make me sad because I saw a lot of hopelessness in all the characters- even though I knew their lives could be different if they made different decisions. But Ericka Carter's writing caused me to have those feels and I'm guessing that was her goal. Definitely depressing, but also a bold and honest debut.

Reading this one next for the "book that got negative reviews that you are curious about" category for one of my reading challenges. Let's see how it goes...

Hated it, only reason I finished it was because I bought it. The story of three losers who can't get their lives together. They live off the grid cause they don't pay their bills nor have jobs.

Evening reading. 📚🌛

My bf's mom let me borrow one of her #BOTM choices from a few months ago. I actually liked this book until I got to the end. It seems all three friends, whose chapter's alternate, are dealing with some sort of mental illness or some sort of codependency. Rachel is the only kinda decent one of her friends, Ellie is an insecure bitch and Chloe is a mix of mean and nice. I just wasn't too fond of how the book dealt with their issues & it ended weird.

#17rainbowbooks Rainbow book stack!!

Got my BF's Mom a #botm subscription during Christmas and this was the first book she got to choose. She enjoyed it so she let me borrow it. Taking advantage that my car is being serviced to enjoy this nice day and read outside at a nearby cafe

The story was great but the book on a whole was tough to get through

I get why a lot of people don't like this one, but it really struck me in the feels. The motivations, the ennui, the self-destructiveness...I get it. I've been each of these 3 women before.

Now that this month's BOTM has shipped, maybe I should read last month's...

Book mail day makes me happy!

Maybe because I'm from Arkansas and I recognized the landscape she described... Maybe because I remember being an idiotic, pretentious 23 year old... But I'm gonna go against the trend and admit that I really enjoyed this book.

Stuck at the DMV, but at least I'm FINALLY getting a chance to start my January #bookofthemonth !

I really wanted to like this book but the end left me wanting more resolution. The story ended up right back where it started. I liked that the story was told from all three view points and there were a couple of funny moments.

It's not that I didn't like it - I did. Erika Carter's writing flows well and paints a solid picture of three lost girls in their 20's. The tie up of the three stories left something to be desired, though.

I like this book! It reminds me of friends I have met in my twenties and weird obsessions we can get into. I thought it was a light, easy read but I also love gossip girl so...

Stayed up past my bedtime to finish

I wanted to like this book and hoped that it would provide any kind of twist or redemption, but it fell flat for me. It read like an indie movie that you watch and then have no idea what the point was. I can see how it could be a book club book though, because there would be a lot of discussion about the characters and their choices.

Reading, writing, and lunching at Whole Foods—by myself! Woot! (For those who aren't huge nerds like me, "woot" means we owned other team. Other team in this situation is either my husband or my kids, maybe both.) ?

Does it bother anyone else that Ellie's haikus aren't haikus?

The syllables are all over the place...

Finally diving into my #botm pick. Hoping it's a good read!