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Nope, this was really rather annoying, actually. Clearly I‘m not the target market for a book about a millennial who is getting divorced in her late 20s, but still…

I thought the first couple of chapters were OK and mildly amusing, but then it became apparent that the MC had no redeeming qualities whatsoever and was just obnoxious. Some authors can write such characters and you revel in their nastiness, but this wasn‘t one of those cases.

#bookreport
Shrines- vintage Atkinson ✔️
Unsinkable- enjoyed
Act of Oblivion- meh, not nearly as exciting as it should have been
Six Years- usual entertaining, bonkers plot from Coben
Just starting 1989.

I wanted to love this. I find historical fiction most interesting when it exposes truths about the past, which this certainly does. From kidnapping and sexual slavery in China and San Francisco to the effect of the Chinese Exclusion Act on immigrant workers in Idaho, Zhang covers a lot of ground in the late 19th c Chinese-American experience. But the voice and thoughts of the MC just grated on me. Given all the great reviews, maybe it‘s just me.

I‘m on a roll with #unpopularopinions. Clearly cowboy romances are not my thing. I found the writing clunky and repetitive. The MCs were immature, and for characters who were supposedly 34 (the hero, Jericho) and early-20s (the heroine, Honey), ridiculously childish in their behavior. Honey was also obsessed with her virginity and with finding someone to hook up with so she‘d no longer be a virgin. It was obnoxious.

A lot of the insights Emily makes in this reflective essay collection about her body were universal despite, as a model, her body being her main source of income. That said, even though I finished yesterday, I had to dig deep in my memory to think of the exact points she made. I enjoyed it while reading, but nothing memorable. Low pick. #botm

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Not quite the low blows I had feared, but it was obvious the author had an axe to grind in this gossipy book about the media (eg Tina Brown, Ronan Farrow) and politicians (eg Giuliani, Boris Johnson, Al Gore). Okay enough to finish but not one I‘d recommend. 3⭐️ #audiobook #BirthdayBash readathon

Because no one has ever heard of “Hickory Dickory Dock,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “Jack and Jill Went Up The Hill,” or even “There Was an Old Man from Nantucket,” we have to have this sappy... I don‘t even know what to call this. Was she drinking (as she suggested - liquid courage and all) when she wrote this?
#BrookeEWayne #ComeWriteWithMePoetry #Limericks #NoIdeaWhatShesDoing #MakeHerStop #Nope #Pass

I read the 1929 book about “Passing”. Now I‘m starting the 2020, but based in 1968 version!
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#PasséBlanc #PasseBlanc
#LitsyBookClub

I can‘t remember what podcast I heard about this 1929 book ? but I was intrigued. I remember as a child my mom telling me actress Lena Horne “passed‘ as white in early Hollywood. We still have a ways to go but we‘ve come along way! ??? #PasséBlanc #PasseBlanc

5 pages from the end of the entire book, suddenly he‘s a poet now? Pass.
#JohnMatthews #TheBookOfCelticVerse #poetry #JohnMatthews #Pass