panHad to push through with this one from the very beginning. Could have gone without it. Plus side: it was a gift✨
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Adultery: A novel | 
panHad to push through with this one from the very beginning. Could have gone without it. Plus side: it was a gift✨
I am posting one book a day from my extensive to be read collection. No description and no reason why I got these books. Some are really old and some are new; there are quite a few. Join the fun!
This is day 6.
#BooksToRead #TBRPile #TBRMountain #Bookstagram
I cannot remember when last I was this hooked on a book ! Truly enjoying every moment of it , I feel like I can partially relate to the main character Linda. I love how the writing is so free flowing it really has me hooked !
bailedI made it about 30 pages before I started skimming to see if it got any better. It didn‘t. The mc was completely unbelievable to me. It seemed like she was created for the shock value. A flat, almost sociopathic character that was obviously a woman written by a man. 👎🏻
panI often remark that #coelho is able to write so convincingly with a woman‘s voice. This was not the case, here. I‘m not prudent but it felt exploitative for no real reason. Having just come off of reading Eleven Minutes, which I LOVED, this one just never felt like it got where it was going... still love PC, though!
panA dud as far as I‘m concerned. Didactic and instructional with a couple of really awkward sex scenes thrown in. ⭐️⭐️
so-soHmm.
Not the best introduction to his writing!
I found the first half to be quite interesting and kept me reading; the second not so much. I empathised hugely with the female character need for help, and related to her ups and downs. However, her ways of dealing with it were obviously unpleasant.
I will read his other works next year! 😊☺
I'm ashamed to confess I've never read any of his before 🙄🤔 and am thus rectifying the situation!
Not sure this is the best place to start!
panNot even a beautiful sunny day can save this hot mess of a novel by an author whose work I often love.
Have just got to a major WTF passage and now I loathe the main character and want her to be eternally miserable.
#Aprella or maybe now #Baychella 🙌🏻🎵Did ya‘ll see the Queen‘s performance!?! OMG⚔️ I feel bad for all the other artists that have to follow that....Back to Declan McKenna 🎤I read both of these books by Paulo Coelho from #Brazil who‘s highly regarded as a national treasure🙄Ummm, I‘m sorry but I‘m missing something! Both books seemed contrived,poorly written and almost juvenile. I can‘t express why, but books seriously pissed me off! #RipOff
This face sums up how I felt going through this book. I had so many wtf moments 😕😕. It was my first time reading #PauloCoelho and I hated every second of it. At some point I even thought his work was #Overrated and maybe some part of me still does. But I'm willing to keep discovering his writing until I find that one book that will definitely prove me wrong. Any suggestions ? Which one of his books should I read?
panDidn't really enjoy this one, except for perhaps the last 20 pages? I don't know why, I've liked all the books I've read by him so far, but this one just didn't do anything for me.
pickAs a whole I didn‘t love this book. None of the characters were likable. The author had some interesting insights and has an amazing way of saying things. There are lots of great quotes. So for that I‘m going with pick.
so-soI'm so torn...I wanted to love the book, I really did! There‘s no doubt that Coelho is a fantastic writer, after all he does write poetry. However, I think this novel was a bit of a struggle. Was this done on purpose because the main character, Linda, a thirty-something journalist/mother/wife is struggling?
"Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days."
