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All the Summer Girls: A Novel | Meg Donohue

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Ugh 😫 this book drags with zero connection between the characters, relationships, and dialogue. The characters are only relevant to one another because of too many shared traumatic experiences. More importantly, the characters didn't move forward in their lives because the author wrote a built up of secrecy as a plot twist reveal 🤷‍♀️.The author's writing is scattered, phrases are outdated just like the characters.
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Piranesi | Susanna Clarke

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Well, I was certainly sold the dummy here. Quite definitely the worst book I have read so far this year ... perhaps even a contender for worst of this century. Even the beautiful presentation (the cover beneath the dust jacket, and the endpapers, are exquisite) could not redeem it.
See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953. #books #bookstagram #fiction #dontreadit #art #history #dreadfulbook #dontjudgeabookbyitscover

mackelie I‘m really sorry you didn‘t enjoy this book! On the contrary, I loved it and think it‘s a brilliant read. But I do agree that it may not be for everyone :) 4y

Moonprismpower I enjoyed this book. However starting out, the story was very confusing and I had to read and reread quite slowly before it turned into a good book for me. I feel like it leaned quite close to literary fiction and usually literary is a hard pass for me. I hope you find a better next read! 4y

Palimpsest I can‘t access your Goodreads review, but I was only going to read your review to see what you found so unlikeable because this book in my opinion is brilliant. I may have interpreted it differently than the author‘s intention, but for me it was about creation, almost an ethnography; of being alone and trying to make sense of a world with very few clues, but continuing to live because that‘s what we are built to do. Book reminds me of Borges too. (edited) 4y

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Palimpsest I‘ve also read quite a bit about the real Piranesi and his imagined prisons, so my English lit trained brain was making all sorts of connections in theory which is how I look at literature. Just had to defend it because I think it‘s the best new fiction book I read last year. Not that anyone cares about my opinion, but to say that even the boards don‘t do it justice is harsh. 😕Then again I don‘t like what most people read. 4y

Bookwomble @Palimpsest I loved it, also, and I got a Borges feel from it as well. The Narnia connection was delightful, too, but mostly the power and grace of Clarke's language and images. Then again, I don't like what most people read 😃 4y

Palimpsest @Bookwomble I agree with the Narnia feel. I also got a bit of Samuel Beckett. Please note I don‘t mean to sound flippant when I said like you that I don‘t like what most people read, but I don‘t automatically buy what publishers push (although this book deserved the publicity) and I enjoy a lot of classical works, classic novels, non-fiction, some fantasy and a little avant-garde. I like well written, thought provoking stories and this fits. 😄 4y

Bookwomble @Palimpsest I didn't think you sounded flippant 🙂 4y

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