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Reeseâs Book Club - by Reese Witherspoon
Each month Reese Witherspoon picks books she loves with a woman at the center of the story.
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A couple of friends and I formed a small book club, and this was our first pick. It was short, and ChatGPT recommended it as funny and futuristic (yes, those were our exact search terms đ). Out of the five of us, only one person liked it. One couldnât even finish it. The other three (myself included) powered through... and strongly disliked it.
Letâs start with the positive: it was short. And⌠thatâs it. đ
Why didnât I like it? Honestly, I just didnât see the point. If the book was meant to highlight the futility of war, well, Iâve read others that did a far better job. (for example: "All Quiet on the Western Front" or "A Farewell to Arms"). The sci-fi elementsâaliens and time travelâfelt randomly thrown in, like an afterthought. They didnât make much sense or add anything meaningful to the story.
Overall, this feels like one of those âyou either love it or you donâtâ classics. And I definitely fell into the âdonâtâ camp. The writing style reminded me of Virginia Woolf (especially "Orlando and "To the Lighthouse") â lots of feelings and events, but with a meandering, almost directionless tone. It also had similar vibes to "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, another book that left me wondering, âWas that it?â
Iâm always a little sad when I donât enjoy a popular classic. But at the same timeâTBR item crossed off, and a clear decision made: Kurt Vonnegutâs books just arenât for me.
Rating: ââ (2 stars â not my thing, but at least I tried!)
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i like to have nonsense challenges to complete like Pokedexs and i'm elaborating a 40 female autors list, help me with the last 4 i feel like i'm forgetting important people and i'm going insane, TW: some authors aren't included in the list cause i have read them, but feel free to recomend everything you think of this is the current list (some titles are in spanish or catalan lol i'm trilingual)
Banana Yoshimoto â Kitchen, The propositions Almudena Grandes â El lector de julio verne, las edades de LulĂş Clarice Lispector â The hour of the star, agua viva Magda Szabo â the fawn, Abigail Elena Ferrante â La amiga estupenda, un mal nombre Han Kang â Human Acts, La vegetariana⌠Ursula Le Guin â La saga de terramar Mikeko Kawakami â Heaven, sisters in yellow ⌠Sally Rooney â Intermezzo, Normal people ⌠Margaret Atwood â The handmaidâs tale, the penelopiad Edith Wharton â The age of innocence, Ethan frome⌠Toni Morrison â Beloved, the Bluest eye Mary Shelley â Frankenstein, Matilda Maggie O'farrell â Hamnet, portrait of marriage Annie Ernaux â El acontecimiento, Pura passion Charlotte BrĂśnte â Jane Eyre, Villette Kate Chopin â the awakening, the story of an Hour Agustina Bazterrica â CadĂĄver exquisito, las indignas RF Kuang â Taipei story, Babel Virgina Woolf â Orlando, una habitaciĂłn propia Robin Hobb â the Mad ship Donna Tartt â La història secreta, el jilguero Mercè Rodoreda â la plaça del diamant Pat Barker â the voyage home, the silence of the girls Isabel Allende, Simone de Beauvoir â el segundo sexo, la mujer rota Marjane Satrapi â persepolis Qiu Maojin â notes of a crocodile Octavia Butler â parabole of the sower Leslie Feinberg â stone butch blues Min jin lee â Pachinko Louisa May Alcott â Little Women Elizabeth Gaskell â North and South Sylvia Plath â Ariel Iris Chang â The Rape of Nanking Amal El-Mohtar â This is how to loose the time War 46 47 48 49
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Ernest Cline delivers a fun and exciting adventure for readers of every age (and there's even a little bit of romance). It's not Little Brother with his sharp critique of society, but there are some good things pointed out here too.
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Interesting premise đ°ď¸, but the unusual narration and romance style just weren't for me. Read a sample first! đđ
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