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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: A Novel | Adelle Waldman
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The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable book."Adelle Waldman's debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., scrutinizes Nate and the subculture that he thrives in with a patient, anthropological detachment. Ms. Waldman has sorted and cross-categorized the inhabitants of Nate's world with a witty, often breathtaking precision..."Maria Russo, The New York Times"Adelle Waldman just may be this generation's Jane Austen"The Boston GlobeA debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the romantic life of a brilliant young man. Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice," who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. In Nate's 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed, sometimes infuriating modern manone who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is an absorbing tale of one young man's search for happinessand an inside look at how he really thinks about women, sex and love.
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BookishClaire
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Here‘s what I‘m recommending on this week‘s episode of the @Unabridged podcast!

UnabridgedPod Can‘t wait to read these novels!! Thanks so much for the recommendations. ❤️ 5y
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GidgetsTreasures75
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10-15-18: My 48th finished book of 2018! 📖👍🏼#️⃣4️⃣8️⃣

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GidgetsTreasures75
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10-14-18: What my husband calls a “Moonstruck” breakfast! It‘s from the movie, something Olympia Dukakis makes for Cher. A morning of yoga, reading in the bath, and now this....no complaints! 🧘‍♀️📖🍳

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Paperback.Propensity
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Pickpick

The realest look at relationships and the male psyche that I have ever encountered in fiction.

Centique I‘m glad you liked it. For a while I thought I was the only one who liked it! 6y
Paperback.Propensity @Centique It was really good! 6y
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Paperback.Propensity
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My current read. Just started, and I am loving the writing.

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Lcsmcat
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1. The tagged book. He was just so awful!
2. Chocolate, or tea, or wine and cheese- it varies.
3. Victoria: the Queen by Julia Baird
4. Anyone who wants to play!
#tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47

BarbaraTheBibliophage I liked that biography! She was fascinating. 6y
Lcsmcat @BarbaraTheBibliophage She was! It looks intimidating because it‘s long, but I found it very readable. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Lcsmcat At about halfway through, I remember thinking “this is soooo long.” But I liked it! 6y
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wallacereads
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PJs on and ready for a big Saturday night of reading while the royal wedding plays on repeat in the background. #8intwo

mcctrish Wonderful Saturday night 6y
wallacereads @mcctrish - Right?! I hope yours was just as eventful. 🤓 (edited) 6y
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wallacereads
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As per my new year's resolution, I am slowly making my way through my own books. I am pretty sure I bought this one because of the cover. #mountTBRchallenge

mcctrish It‘s a gorgeous cover 6y
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Ryles
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Mehso-so

Heard so many good things, but wasn‘t my favourite.

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Centique
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#septembowie #modernlove

How bad can the dating scene in modern days be? Well you might come across someone like Nathaniel P. And that wouldn't be good! A lot of readers have found this character too awful to enjoy this book but I was in the mood to be shown the inner thoughts of a supposedly evolved liberal young man who is actually just self involved and terrible. Well written if you want to roll your eyes and gnash your teeth a bit!

Cinfhen I had this on my TBR but I kept reading bad reviews...maybe I'll reconsider 7y
Centique @Cinfhen I think they pitched it as being funny but its more likely to make you mad! But if you've ever wondered how someone can be so awful at relationships, it's an expose of the thinking behind the behaviour. Just have a punching bag ready for afterwards! 😂 7y
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Sharpeipup
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Found a chair that's as colorful as my current read. Sadly, neither are very comfortable.

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Lcsmcat
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Bailedbailed

I think I'm going to bail on this. I really don't like Nate, and 59% of the way in, I don't really care what happens to him. Does anyone see what I'm missing and think it's worth finishing?

Centique I quite enjoyed this but I can see what you mean. And if you're finding him awful, he doesn't do much to redeem himself so feel free to bail! 8y
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Lcsmcat
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"It flashed through Nate‘s mind that Hannah‘s position wasn‘t very feminine. She sounded more like an aesthete than an educator, and women, in his experience, tended by disposition to be educators. He felt intuitively that she was para-\u008phrasing someone else (a professor? Nabokov‘s Lectures on Literature?) and that the someone was a man."

OMG can this character be more of a jerk???

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Lcsmcat
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"At home, he‘d read Kristen bits from Proust, and she‘d get this pinched look on her face, as if the sheer extravagance of Proust‘s prose was morally objectionable, as if there were children in Africa who could have better used those excess words."

This quote tickled me so much I laughed out loud in the law firm lunch room!

zsuzsanna_reads Brilliant!! 😂 8y
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jessberk13
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Just a small corner of the madness that will become my bedroom - I'm stamping all my new books, creating spreadsheets, and reshelving today! Ahhh!

Hazel0303 I think we've talked about this before, but I ❤️ Night Film!! 8y
Lola @Hazel0303 Thanks for mentioning that. I've had that one forever-need to get it into my brain already! 8y
Hazel0303 @Lola that book is so unique - in an amazing way. I can't wait to read it again someday. 8y
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Pickpick

Good read - but Nathaniel P. is a class A jerk.

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NikkiDolson
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Mehso-so

I stayed with it until the end but only because I was hoping Nate P would become a better character. I don't think I have ever disliked a character more. Not a bad book. Not bad writing. Just wasn't for me.

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GinaAnderson
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In my defense (as if one were needed) I had a birthday this month. There may or may not have been kindle and audio books purchased as well. Spoiler alert: there were. I'm going to try to show some restraint in September. #augustbookhaul #augustphotochallenge

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hahaha! Love the spoilers! 8y
rubyslippersreads ❤️ Rebecca! 8y
GinaAnderson @rubyslippersreads I'm trying to fill in some gaps in my reading. Really looking forward to finally reading this. 8y
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BookishFeminist 😂😂 good luck with the restraint. I tried that this month and you've seen my haul. Book buying restraint is so hard! 8y
GinaAnderson @BookishFeminist What else was I really going to do with that money? Spend it on my kids? Those white boys will do just fine in this world. 😋 8y
BookishFeminist @GinaAnderson 😂😂😂 that's the spirit! Lesson on financing & privilege all in one go. I support your multitasking. 👍🏼 8y
GinaAnderson Yes, they love it when I talk to them about their privilege. They hardly roll their privileged eyes at me at all. Then I go spend their college fund on books. 8y
katedensen Haha. Love this. Had some issues with Nathaniel P though! 8y
Laalaleighh @GinaAnderson @BookishFeminist 😂😂😂 I'm dying at this conversation. 8y
Scurvygirl 😹😹😹 8y
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GinaAnderson

In my defense (as if one were needed) I had a birthday this month. There may or may not have been kindle and audio books purchased as well. Spoiler alert: there were. I'm going to try to show some restraint in September. #augustbookhaul #augustphotochallenge

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GinaAnderson

In my defense (as if one were needed) I had a birthday this month. There may or may not have been kindle and audio books purchased as well. Spoiler alert: there were. I'm going to try to show some restraint in September. #augustbookhaul #augustphotochallenge

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JessieReadsInBK
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Popped into a thrift store on my way to a cafe and walked out with a stack of books!

MrBook Nice haul and pic! 8y
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Megabooks
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Mehso-so

3🌟 I'm having trouble reconciling my feelings about this book. There are interesting insights into the male mind. Nate is an fascinating MC with a well-circumscribed POV. The writing is fine. It's a little navel-gaze-y for me and the pacing is a bit off. One relationship was drawn out and got boring, while the other one flew by at warp speed. If you want to be in the mind of a bro, I don't think it's a bad book, but it could've been better.

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Megabooks

Subtitle: How crazy women get men and rational women are seen as undesirable a.k.a. Why I'm single. 😒 Although, honestly, I'd be pretty miserable with Nate's brand of bro-ness. 🙄 Review tomorrow.

PS This is obviously an oversimplification of relationships! Meant to be read sarcastically. 😏

whelanmaria I really liked this one but I HATED him. :) 8y
MrBook 😂👍🏻 8y
LitHousewife You make me wonder if I really want to read this one. 😆 8y
AmyWrites @whelanmaria me too! Loved the story and the writing but hated him. I found myself thinking about this book for a loooong time after I was done. I was so mad he didn't stay with the nice chick! (Can't remember her name any more) 8y
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Megabooks
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This book is fascinating. So the girlfriend brings up a complaint rationally. When he refuses to acknowledge what she said, she loses her temper for the first time in 3 months of dating. Then he feels smug.

The girl he's dating is so much like me. Since she's not always hysterical, he just can't believe she's being honest. You really can't win. 😒

Chelsey Ooooh that makes me cranky 8y
HollyB3 This quote makes me eye roll so hard. 8y
Trav Ugh x 100 8y
bookishchelle 😤😞 8y
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Megabooks
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I think I'm calling it a #readathon at 5.5 books! (I may read a bit more before bed.) My first, and definitely not my last, #24in48 has been a wonderful weekend! I have 4 #blog posts to write and work tomorrow, so I better get cracking lol. 😉 Thank you to @Litsy and @24in48 for such a great time! And thank you to @coffeehousepress for sponsoring the contest I won. You guys rock! 👊🏻 Also, thanks to this wonderful community of readers! ❤️❤️❤️

LitHousewife Congrats!!! 8y
Megabooks Thanks @LitHousewife 👊🏻 8y
Jenshootsweddings Amazing job! I enjoyed following along ❤️ 8y
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BookishFeminist Awesome job!! 🎉🎉👊🏼 8y
LauraBeth Yay 😀 8y
Hazel0303 Great job! 8y
Megabooks Thanks @LauraBeth and @Hazel0303 !! 👍🏻🌟 8y
MLVReads I hope to participate in the next one! 8y
Megabooks @MLVReads I hope you enjoy it! I'll definitely be back. 😃 8y
moranadatter Yay 5.5 books in under 48 hours! What was you favorite read of the weekend? 8y
NatalieR 🍾🎉🎉🎉 8y
Megabooks @kmdartist definitely We Should All Be Feminists! 8y
Megabooks Thank you @natalier ! 8y
Shay Way to go! 8y
NovelGirl82 I know what you mean! I finished the full 24, but I have to go back and write reviews for all of these for the blog tomorrow, and work as well! Great job!!! 8y
Megabooks Thank you @shay ! 😃👍🏻 8y
Megabooks @NovelGirl82 I got my big wrap up post written and edited and ready to go at 6 AM today. I got one other written, but I still have two to go. This is the only aspect of Readathons I don't like as a blogger! 8y
Megabooks And @NovelGirl82 Congratulations on finishing all 24!!! 🎉 8y
bookwormkara Yeeee-uuuhhhhh🎉📚 8y
NovelGirl82 Thanks!! I agree, all of the reviews is the only rough part about it, but they are fun anyway!! And thank you!! I wasn't sure that I was going to get all 24 done! 8y
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Megabooks
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My man Nate P. Is a total bro. It interests me that this book is written by a woman. It always interests me when people write MCs of the opposite gender. It makes me wonder about the veracity of the MC's inner thoughts. Given that most of my experience knowing the inner sexual thoughts of men is more from gay friends than straight, I'm intrigued to know if #notallmen break down a woman's attractiveness this much. #24in48 #readathon

becausetrains It's pretty common from my experience, speaking as a white cis-straight male. I've done it before 😕 and been in groups where women's looks were about all we discussed 😞 but a) my female friends knocked sense into me and b) I realized early on that conventional attractiveness doesn't make relationships - common interest does. I've heard gay/bi male culture is similar, but can't personally confirm. 8y
Megabooks @becausetrains That's a very interesting insight. I think the reason I find this character so unlikable is also that he thinks things like "Women are incapable of reasonable thought - just feelings." And "Women don't write anything interesting." I'm still compelled to read on. I'm glad some women knocked some sense into you. ?? 8y
becausetrains @Ebooksandcooks yikes. I can say I've never thought those two things!! Some men I've met have expressed those thoughts, but nowhere near a majority. That said, I run in highly educated, urban, white-collar circles - might be different for blue-collar, less formal ed, rural, etc. 8y
Megabooks Oh dear @becausetrains this MC is a freelance journalist living in Brooklyn! That's part of what shocks me so much! That he can be so openly mysognistic and douche-y. 8y
becausetrains @Ebooksandcooks ugh, that kind of entitlement happens too - I think all men past a certain age have gotten the message that it's ok to objectify women, but some demonstrate it far more than others. I don't know why rape culture sticks so much more heavily for those men - probably have it demo'd to them persistently when young, with few examples to the contrary. 8y
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Megabooks
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Starting out, my goal for the readathon was six books. I don't know if I can keep going after that, but cheers to starting book 6! #24in48 #readathon 📖👊🏻

In other news, it's becoming mathematically impossible for me to hit 24 hours. ☹️

LitHousewife It is also mathematically impossible for me to reach 24. My girls wanted to make bookmarks with me. I couldn't turn them down. Congrats on starting book 6! 8y
bookwormkara Yep me too, I won't get there. We went to see Back to the Future at our local theater for "flashback cinema"? 8y
Hooked_on_books 5+ books is an awesome accomplishment! 8y
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Megabooks @LitHousewife That is so sweet! Have fun! 8y
Megabooks @bookwormkara Back to the Future was one of my favorite movies growing up! #80skid 8y
bookwormkara @Ebooksandcooks it's my husband's favorite😊 8y
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LitHousewife
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Today's book a day pick makes me happy I picked up the ebook while it was on sale. I may have to consider this for #24in48 this weekend.

ultrabookgeek That calendar expressed my opinions of the book exactly! 8y
BekahB I had a book a day calendar last year. It added so many books to by TBR list! 8y
LitHousewife @sharimichele I'm excited to read it! 8y
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LitHousewife @BekahB This week has been pretty hard on my TBR. 4 out of the 5 books featured sound fantastic. Best week ever! 😍 8y
GuiltyFeat Nate P. is an insufferable twerp. This book drove me crazy. 8y
susanw I have had this on my kobo for years. I was excited when I got it, then something shiny caught my eye 😬 8y
Megabooks It's in my #24in48 TBR! 8y
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Megabooks
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Adding this to my readathon stack! Just $2.99 right now on Kindle. 👍🏻

MrBook On my TBR now! 😎👍🏻 8y
thatotherlisa I really liked this book in an everyone-is-deliciously-awful kind of way. 8y
LitHousewife Oh! I might have to pick that up. 8y
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LauraBeth Thanks for the head's up - getting it! 8y
AmyWrites I LOVED this book! 8y
Soubhiville Oh thanks for the heads up! Time to add to my stack! 8y
RebeccaH BOUGHT! Thanks for the heads up! 8y
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