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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt: A Novel | Andrea Bobotis

bailed

I just couldn‘t get into this book.
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dabbe #hailthatbail! #betterbookshead 🙌 1w

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starlight97

The Buried Giant: A novel | Kazuo Ishiguro

bailed

Well this is the second Ishiguro book I can't finish. I really liked Never Let Me Go but this one and The Unconsoled are just too abstract for me I guess. Gave up at page 150.

dabbe #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 1w

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Darklunarose

Wintering: How to Survive When Life Is Frozen | Katherine May

bailed

I enjoyed it till I didn‘t, then I just couldn‘t continue.

DGRachel This may be my favorite review ever. 😂 3w

dabbe #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 3w

Darklunarose @DGRachel 😂 thanks…I‘m not sure what else I could have write. It was “oh I love this”, “this is good” then”nope, I‘m not going further!” 3w

BkClubCare Same! 3w

Darklunarose @BkClubCare ❤️ glad I‘m not the only one. 3w

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Roary47

The Summer Skies | Jenny Colgan

bailed

I‘m DnFing this one. Not that it isn‘t enjoyable. It is just a slow read what I can‘t get into right now. It was a library random pick, mainly for the pretty cover. 😅 #hailthebail ?

dabbe YES! #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 3w

Cuilin 🙌🙌 I‘ve had to DNF a few myself recently #HailTheBail 3w

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TheBookgeekFrau

Night Music | Jojo Moyes

bailed

And I'm calling it on page 130. Not a freaking thing is happening #HailTheBail

49/62

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader #Next 2mo

dabbe #hailthatbail!!! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

TheAromaofBooks Some books are not a match!! Hopefully the next is better!! 1mo

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kspenmoll

Plaid and Plagiarism (Highland Bookshop Mystery #1) | Molly MacRae

I think Poe agrees with my decision to bail from this book. Just bored. #hailthebail #libraryfind #Poe #catsoflitsy

TheBookHippie I have bailed more this year than any other!! 2mo

dabbe #poeknows #hailthatbail! 🖤🐾🖤 2mo

Librarybelle 😹 2mo

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Prairiegirl_reading When I first about heard about this book I immediately went to buy it. And I may have read about 5 pages, maybe. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2mo

Mollyanna This was a so-so read for me. Probably should have bailed… I remember very little about it. #hailthebail 2mo

ShelleyBooksie Poe is soo cute!! 2mo

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TrishB

All Fours | Miranda July

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Life‘s too short to be voluntarily annoyed and hate read this any longer.
I loathe this MC.
There should be a sub genre of ‘menopause‘ books- insufferable privileged women spending money to find solutions to their life.
Definitely a lot to discuss here.
#campylitsy24

Megabooks, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB

The_Book_Ninja 🍿 2mo

Ruthiella Love this review! I liked it for what it was. July pushes boundaries, but your assessment is not wrong. 😆 2mo

Librarybelle Love this review! One of my favorite bailed reviews I‘ve read! 2mo

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squirrelbrain You might still be able to contribute at the weekend! 🤞 If it doesn‘t upset you too much…. 2mo

Susanita I‘m hanging in there so far, but yeah she is…a lot. 2mo

TrishB @Ruthiella I think it‘s because I don‘t think the boundaries are real. Woman has mid life epiphany needs a lot of sex. 🤷‍♀️ lots to discuss! 2mo

TrishB @Librarybelle 😘 2mo

TrishB @squirrelbrain I think I have a lot to say! Probably none of it relevant 😁 2mo

TrishB @Susanita you‘re very diplomatic 😁 2mo

Susanita Actually, I read a few more pages and decided to bail too! 2mo

julesG 👏👏👏 2mo

dabbe I think I'll skip this one based on this review. #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

Megabooks I‘d still love to hear your thoughts. Seriously! I love menopause reads, but I can definitely see how they‘re marmite. 2mo

BarbaraBB Lots to discuss. I am not a fan of menopause books per se but I liked this one much more than Sandwich, which I know you preferred. I do think J won‘t read the new Lombardo soon, having enough of menopause books for now! 2mo

Hooked_on_books I thought the menopause bit had a lot of potential and could be interesting, if the book would stop focusing on sex for two seconds and act like there‘s more to life than that. I don‘t blame you at all for bailing. I probably should have. 2mo

Oryx Love this review! I've been so looking forward to seeing the reviews of this come in 2mo

DGRachel I could not agree more! I love this review. 2mo

TheBookHippie I bailed… I couldn‘t even hate read it 🫣😬😵‍💫😝 2mo

TrishB @Megabooks I definitely have plenty of thoughts! 2mo

TrishB @BarbaraBB I think I liked Sandwich as there was some humility, normality and humour! But still a bit privileged. I didn‘t find any of those in this one! Like you I may give them a miss for a bit. 2mo

TrishB @Hooked_on_books agree. It seems the only ‘solution‘ to the menopause is to throw off the shackles of life and have lots of sex. Hard enough getting the menopause taken seriously as it is. 2mo

TrishB @Oryx @DGRachel @TheBookHippie it definitely makes for strong opinions 😁 2mo

TrishB @Susanita 👍🏻 2mo

Caroline2 “Voluntarily annoyed” love that expression Trish!! Yep, life is defo too short to spend with books that wind you up!! ? for me, the real privilege came later when she‘s all blasé about her annual gynaecologist appt who then just did a hormone test and got her on hrt like it was nothing. Cor, can you imagine that in this country!???? 2mo

TrishB @Caroline2 getting the app would be one battle, being taken seriously would be a step too far! Fantasy. 2mo

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deeannloso

Gallows Hill | Darcy Coates

bailed

This was sooo slow. I couldn‘t take anymore.

dabbe And with a title like that? #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

deeannloso @dabbe I didn‘t even think about that. 😂😂 2mo

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AllDebooks

The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck

bailed

I'm so disappointed to bail on my #Bookedintime selection. I adore the landscape and nature descriptions. However, it does feel overly preachy, and I'm just not in the right mindset atm to persevere. I will pick it up to try again, at some point. I do feel the fault is mine, not the book.

@Cuilin @dabbe

Cuilin Oh, I totally get it. I‘m struggling with the puritanical preaching in Little Women right now. Grateful that it‘s only a chapter a day. I DNF‘d my book for this month too. I‘m going to see if I can get something else but yeah, I get it. #HailTheBail 🙌 3mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin Absolutely #HailtheBail 😅 3mo

dabbe On the spreadsheet, and yes! #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

AllDebooks @dabbe 🙌 3mo

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TheIntrovertedDodoBird

Ace of Spades | Faridah Abike-Iyimide

bailed

This book feels like the cliched love child of John Hughes and Gossip Girl. I'm in the vast minority of readers who didn't enjoy it. First of all, I feel like it's all been done/said before. The student with the scholarship who feels like an outcast in their shabby clothes compared to everyone else's designer labels (overdone and cliched). The Queen Bee rich girl (predictable). (1/?)

TheIntrovertedDodoBird The anonymous bully (seen it all before). The elite private school (mind-numbingly unoriginal). The beautiful dead girl (I'm pretty sure a girl who has just been violently killed by a car is not going to look doll-like!). Niveus Academy is just a cesspool of tropes and stereotypes. It promises to address serious topics: institutional racism, white supremacy, homophobia and social injustice, and it achieves just that - mostly. (2/?) 3mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Kudos to Àbíké-Íyímídé for delving into these very real issues, but everything else about this book felt shallow. I can't help but be critical over some of the discriminative undertones. The perpetuation and the labelling of Black people - practically Black men - as inherently homophobic and violent towards the LGBTQ+ community. (3/?) 3mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Consistently portraying all the female friendships or interactions with misogynistic connotations - constant backstabbing, being catty to one another, microaggressive bullying, physical violence. The poignancy was diminished by the novel's overall superficiality and dramatized plot. There were a few clumsily worded sentences and others that just made me roll my eyes. (4/?) 3mo

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TheIntrovertedDodoBird I've read copious amounts of YA but this one just felt immature and overcompensates the teenage angst for the typical quasi-American dark academia experience, which made it impossible to invest in the characters and not find everyone infuriating. For a book tackling some serious topics, I can't help but feel like it breezes over others; the nonconsensual outing of a student, the distribution of graphic videos, and physical assault. (5/?) 3mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Also, it feels like a red flag when an author cheekily gives their book a five-star review on Goodreads. I decided to DNF halfway through when I found myself skipping whole paragraphs. Rant over. (6/6)
3mo

emmasm08 After that review I‘d be too embarrassed to even pick the book up 😂! Thank you for reading it on behalf of the rest of us - definitely giving it a miss - sounds dreadful ! 3mo

dabbe Definitely #hailthatbail! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @emmasm08 Opps, I went on a bit of a rampage with that review 🤣. I feel like I took one for the Litsy Team by reading it (read: forcing myself to stick at it before promptly giving up at the halfway mark) 😂. It was so, so dreadful. I can not explain the number of five-star reviews it has been given! I'll re-sell it on Vinted to a poor unsuspecting buyer 😬🤣. 3mo

emmasm08 I loved your review ! It made me laugh a lot - it‘s happened to me too - a book that gets out standing reviews and you are left thinking - how did that happen !!!! 😂xx 3mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @emmasm08 Thank you! 😂 Yessss! There's so many awful bestsellers! Seriously, how DOES it happen?! All of those five star reviews, and there's me, trying not to hurl the book through the wall! 🤣 xx 3mo

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