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Unpopular opinion, I really liked this. I have been having a year of wives books with books like Cursed Bread, My Husband and Our Wives Under The Sea and I find them fascinating. I particularly love it when the narrator is falling slowly into madness. It reminds me a bit of 1 of my favorite shorts The Yellow Wallpaper. Here the Wife's husband has written a story with a disagreeable protagonist & a shop woman asks if she is based on Mrs. this 👇

I‘m finally getting around to this lovely gift from @Cathythoughts and I‘m really enjoying it.

As one of the blurbs mentions, there is a bit of a Patricia Highsmith feel to it so far (and that is a definite plus for me!).

I could not put this book down - Mrs. March thinks her husband is hiding something, her son may have mental health issues, she may or may not be delusional - what's real, what isn't? This book was like an amazing roller coaster ride - loved how the story was told through the unreliable narrator Mrs. March - so why soso? At the end of the ride we go up a big hill and just stop -

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#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious 23,009 for total -

Sending numbers today - will spend the day with grandson and our kids -

Thanks for another fun event @StayCurious and @Clwojick

Happy Halloween everyone -🎃

I thought this might be a nice little psychological thriller for #scarathlon, but I‘m at 34% and the Otessa Moshfegh-ness is getting to me. I get that she‘s written as an unlikable character, but it‘s getting hard to care. I like looking up spoilers for books like these, to see if they ever resolve anything or if you end up not sure what‘s just in the MC‘s head, and everyone is being very circumspect 😡 help? I need to know if I should finish!

One of those books that I read last year and still think about. This messed with my brain!

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Loved the character work, didn't love the plot.

I‘m giving this a pick but to be quite honest this is a beyond creepy and somewhat unsettling read. The FMC refers to herself as Mrs March through the entire read. But what makes this a page turner is the ambiguous time period and descriptive pose.

Once I realized this was not the modern retelling of Little Women I thought it was I settled in and enjoyed the messed up tale told by the unreliable narrator, Mrs March. The weirdest thing was how she referred to herself as Mrs March even in childhood flashbacks.

Some potential March reads.

What did I just read?!?!?!?! This one was a wild ride and left me completely unsettled about what had actually occurred! 🪳 🪳 🪳

Wow, OK. This was a strange one. Are unreliable narrators your jam? Then you‘ll love this.

Mrs March is a strange character. I was most unsettled by the way she thinks of herself as Mrs March, even when flashing back to herself as a little kid! As if that‘s always been her identity.

Definitely not a book I‘d have chosen on my own, and not a preferred genre for me, but I think we‘ll done for what it is!

#FantasticStrangelings

Hairdresser reading time - enjoying this one so far.

Wonderfully written, delightfuly disturbing read. Such a strong sense of place and time. 3.5 🌟

The wife of an author who thinks she‘s the main character in his latest book sounded intriguing. Almost gave up on this a few times but persevered to see if it got any better, it didn‘t. I found the main character one dimensional and the whole book is boring and repetitive with a disappointing ending

This was quite an interesting story, I didn't love it though. I tending towards not really liking Mrs March, but at the same time sorry she is going through a mental breakdown. The husband isn't exactly all that nice too. Mrs March enjoys her lifestyle until someone comments that the main character who is a prostitute in the new book by her husband could be based on her. This turns her world upside down and she begins to unravel.

1. I am reading three at the moment, the tagged book, plus The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray. My nonfiction book is Maiden Voyage by Siân Evans.

2. I am enjoying all three.

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This book reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock plot. Mrs. March is unravelling & slowly losing her mind. Untethered & unreal, Mrs. March exists in a world of expectations never met, while living a surface life with her husband, a successful author & their son. The surface breaks when she hears that her husband‘s latest character-an ugly, unlovable, prostitute-is based on her. This book moves slowly. My issue is that I never cared. 3/5.

Read in September 2021 ...
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Best.Month.Ever.

These are two library books I have out, I will start Mrs March first, when I finish at least one of my current reads.

Seems to be a love it or hate it with no in-between. Curious to find which camp I fall in!

#WeeklyForecast ( a day late & a book still not finished)
It‘s a beautiful autumn morning here 🧡

And I am determined to finish this book this week… I‘ve been in a hell of a slump .. my mind is wandering too much, daydreaming. Time for some serious concentration.
Happy Reading week lovely friends 😘

Mrs March has a mental illness. How entertaining!! What fun! Let‘s write a novel that reflects the banality and sheer tedium of life with depression or anxiety, but, just for giggles, let‘s give her no self-awareness, even when the most clueless are exposed to rudimentary bullet-points on mental health. How about people who don‘t have a mental illness don‘t write about mental illness-down with psychological appropriation?

“The truth is,” Zelda continued, “this is a game-changing book, one that appeals not only to his fans , but to everyone, no, hold on” —— she wagged a finger at George, who had begun to protest—— “and, I‘m compelled to say , is my favorite book of the last decade! And I HATE to read!”

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This book is cracking me up … & freaking me out , the tension is building…

Read it but I have to be honest I didn‘t understand any of it. I wouldn‘t be in a rush to read any others by this author

Imagine if Mrs Dalloway were written by Shirley Jackson but it‘s Mrs March you follow around, listening to her thoughts, wondering where the line between her reality and fantasy lies. Is she slightly unhinged or truly psychotic? It‘s not clear until the very end. Then you know. Absorbingly creepy!

What a twisty delight! This is a slow burn, but when it really gets going about halfway through, I couldn‘t put it down.

I‘m not sure what blurbs I had read before reading this book, but this went in a direction that I didn‘t expect. Looking back now at blurbs and reviews they do all say ‘suspense‘, ‘psychological‘, ‘gothic‘ etc, but for some reason, I thought something completely different.

Still, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book and I can see why it has garnered such praise.

Ugh - only just noticed the cockroach 🪳 on the cover! 😣

• Kindle e-book • Scribd audiobook

OMG! What did I just read? Pick it up and witness Mrs. March‘s slow and painful decline in to madness. Or was it? In the enduring words of Alice Cooper, “Welcome to [her] nightmare”.

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Creepy!

Thanks for putting this on my #ReadersRadar @britt_brooke 💚Completely compelling!! Super unsettling/ Mrs. March might be descending into madness or maybe she‘s more intuitive than this reader thinks. A fun audio - a debut author to watch 😍

I‘m back!!! {{Sort of}} Between jet lag, migraines and overall stress, I haven‘t picked up a book or listened to an audio since last Sunday!! So NO #BookReport this week but here are the two books I‘m hoping to finish before the month ends. Petal is for bookclub on Wednesday and tagged audio is GREAT but my headspace is 💩💩💩

Does anyone else order the UK version of certain books because their covers are WAY prettier? 🦋

Unsettling, in a can‘t-tear-your-eyes-away kind of way. This portrait of a woman unraveling before your eyes is compulsively readable and wholly believable- which, of course, is why it‘s so very disturbing. Very well done. Coming in August.