brutalizermp3 commented on lucyPagebound's review of Evenings and Weekends
Marketed as "for fans of Sally Rooney," yet fell short. I think what Rooney does so well is portray characters who think and speak like real people, full of good and bad, ennui and yearning. The characters in this book felt like caricatures, where their main secrets and sources of conflict boiled down to surface-level identities/markers--being queer, poor, sick.
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Normal People
Sally Rooney
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glad to be leaving this book behind in may. a shame because on paper, it felt like everything i was looking for in a book. instead what i got was a book with bordering-on-purple prose and metaphors so heavy handed they might as well have been hitting me with a brick.
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If this wasn't an audiobook I would have DNF'd by now, because honestly wth his happening. Every character is unlikeable - I have a high tolerance for unlikeable characters and often find it makes things more interesting, but this is next level. Cathy is pathetic, Ren is heartless and flat, and the men are awful caricatures of toxic masculinity. If there's a message in here somewhere, I've yet to find it.
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unfortunately, this is definitely turning into a spite read for me. in which i will be finishing it because i don't like to dnf books
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What do you usually do if there's a book that you started to read and realized you weren't really in the mood for a book like this but you're not sure WHEN you'll be. Do you pause it when you go to log the book OR just DNF it?
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What do you usually do if there's a book that you started to read and realized you weren't really in the mood for a book like this but you're not sure WHEN you'll be. Do you pause it when you go to log the book OR just DNF it?
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The Favorites
Layne Fargo
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Chlorine
Jade Song
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after people we meet on vacation completely surprised me, aka i enjoyed a first person romance after the longest time, i decided to give emily henry another shot. i chose beach read purely because i saw one too many fancasts of logan lerman as gus on tiktok and hey... that was once my white boy of the century. what's a girl to do? beach read is a perfectly serviceable romance novel. it hits all the notes and does them in a way that doesn't feel overwrought or repetitive. what i enjoy, i think, about emily henry's work (after having read two of her novels) is how the character journey is just as important as the love story. the love makes both of them grow, not just the grumpy male protagonist. i also really liked how she poked fun at the "fairy princess", manic pixie dream girl trope through january. but at the end of it, i still think i liked people we meet on vacation more. also, in the immortal words of sabrina carpenter, please, please, please... let the arguments last a little longer! delicious angst is nothing to fear!
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The Bogside Boys
Eoin Dempsey
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Saltwater
Jessica Andrews
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
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Model Home
Rivers Solomon
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"sexy, evil Gus" is totallyyyy something i would call my rival... NOT
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since it's an anthology, is it cheating if i skip over a couple stories 🤔
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I love that period of my reading habits where I decide to read like 10 books at a time
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Beach Read
Emily Henry