When I do my montly round up at the end of July I will let you know which ones were good and which ones were bad.
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Looking forward to it. So I know which ones to buy first to get the good ones read. Because some of them are fantastic, some are average, and a few are dirge.
Oh, I agree some are fantastic, some are average but passible and some are just godawful.
It was such a clusterf*ck guys!!
Will put it behind spoiler in case someone wants to read it later unspoiled by my unadulterated hatred
So, first of course all reading is personal. Due to life stuff, I really dislike emotional cheating storylines being minimized. And that's exactly what happens here.
FMC is married and has been TTC for "years" (even though she's only 32, cause God forbid a romance involves a woman older than 35, we all know our lady bits have shriveled by then right?). She has a podcast about it which amounts to her full time job, and a rich husband who actually pays for their fancy lifestyle. They have s surrogate who is having their last two embryos implanted, against medical advice (just so you know the type of character we're meant to root for).
On the day that her surrogate's implant takes, FMC finds out that her husband has been cheating on her with their dog walker (the dog walker is a cliche straight out of a porn film). She kicks him out and uh... checks notes... runs to the house of her former male coworker she hasn't seen in 2 years (Golden Retriever man for those wondering). They almost have a thing.
And then, while in the present timeline she is moving on from her marriage faster than a Japanese bullet train while still hating and bashing her husband, the author weaves in some sappy flashbacks to the years she worked with Golden Retriever. And guess what? She had a full blown, years spanning, emotional affair with the guy that almost tipped into the physical on her 30th birthday right before she left the company to focus on trying to conceive.
Yeah. But because there was no P in V it's not as bad as her husband's affair with the dog walker, or so implies the author. We are supposed to root for her cause she fell in love! Life is messy, you guys!
And yeah sure it is. I could have gotten on board if at any point this woman had shown any modicum of self awareness. But nah.
Oh and the Golden retriever? Boring AF. Just the most perfect, unflawed man in the world who is just totally in love with her even after 2 years of NC and is willing to let go of his dream of being a biological dad just for her.
Oh and really unsexy sex scened.
Pass me the boke bucket.
FMC is married and has been TTC for "years" (even though she's only 32, cause God forbid a romance involves a woman older than 35, we all know our lady bits have shriveled by then right?). She has a podcast about it which amounts to her full time job, and a rich husband who actually pays for their fancy lifestyle. They have s surrogate who is having their last two embryos implanted, against medical advice (just so you know the type of character we're meant to root for).
On the day that her surrogate's implant takes, FMC finds out that her husband has been cheating on her with their dog walker (the dog walker is a cliche straight out of a porn film). She kicks him out and uh... checks notes... runs to the house of her former male coworker she hasn't seen in 2 years (Golden Retriever man for those wondering). They almost have a thing.
And then, while in the present timeline she is moving on from her marriage faster than a Japanese bullet train while still hating and bashing her husband, the author weaves in some sappy flashbacks to the years she worked with Golden Retriever. And guess what? She had a full blown, years spanning, emotional affair with the guy that almost tipped into the physical on her 30th birthday right before she left the company to focus on trying to conceive.
Yeah. But because there was no P in V it's not as bad as her husband's affair with the dog walker, or so implies the author. We are supposed to root for her cause she fell in love! Life is messy, you guys!
And yeah sure it is. I could have gotten on board if at any point this woman had shown any modicum of self awareness. But nah.
Oh and the Golden retriever? Boring AF. Just the most perfect, unflawed man in the world who is just totally in love with her even after 2 years of NC and is willing to let go of his dream of being a biological dad just for her.
Oh and really unsexy sex scened.
Pass me the boke bucket.
Regarding the Beth O'Leary, I agree her books are getting progressively bad. She is clearly thinking of cuckoo plot twists first and foremost, above character arc or actual plot progression. And I'm tired.
There was almost no character development in this one and the plot twist was so unnecessarily convoluted.
There was almost no character development in this one and the plot twist was so unnecessarily convoluted.
After the road trip, I gave up. What she used to be able to do well, she just doesn’t do it anymore.
MrComment has learnt not to make this statement over the last couple of years.
However, I think he thought I’d evolved earlier when I picked up 4 books and decided that I’d just buy two. BUT I’m not NOT buying them… I just decided to space out the book endorphins.
And no, reducing my TBR this year isn’t going well, thanks for not asking.
the new kindle store interface made me accidentally buy two books yesterday (first one by accident, second one to test how the first one had happened, don’t question my logic) so that’s how my tbr pile reduction plan is going
i realise i could have retuned them but
i realise i could have retuned them but
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Essential testing!the new kindle store interface made me accidentally buy two books yesterday (first one by accident, second one to test how the first one had happened, don’t question my logic) so that’s how my tbr pile reduction plan is going
i realise i could have retuned them but
The first is very me, I love seeing what other people have on their shelves! (I do admit to not having read everything I own, and I stopped lending books after either not getting them back or not getting them back in the same state)
I refuse to believe anyone truly enjoys Ulysses - James Joyce and no top 100 needs 3 Hemingway novels.
I'd read about a third of this list but only really enjoyed about 15 of them.
I find it interesting to see how these types of lists change over 10/20/30 years.
For British Library Crime Classics collectors, if you want any brand new the British Library does 3 for 2 and if you’re a member you can get an extra 20% off the 3 for 2 price, so 3 books for around £16 which I didn’t think was bad.
I may have calculated how much it would cost to buy them all and then how much it would cost to buy all the tales of the weird ones as well.
It doesn’t often let me post on here because I refuse to accept sharing my data with the 1700 odd ‘partners’ of this site. So I have to read around the pop up but I’ve still been following every single day And slowly whittling down my tbr - I’m at 165 now so 30ish down since the start of the year.
Interesting that a lot of you liked Rebecca, I read it quite a few years ago and was really disappointed because I thought it was a literal ghost story.
I may have calculated how much it would cost to buy them all and then how much it would cost to buy all the tales of the weird ones as well.
It doesn’t often let me post on here because I refuse to accept sharing my data with the 1700 odd ‘partners’ of this site. So I have to read around the pop up but I’ve still been following every single day And slowly whittling down my tbr - I’m at 165 now so 30ish down since the start of the year.
Interesting that a lot of you liked Rebecca, I read it quite a few years ago and was really disappointed because I thought it was a literal ghost story.
I'm going through the British Library's Women's Writers section - I find it so interesting what's fallen out of print, and how early "sliding doors" tales were being written
Just a note that there's a firefox extension which answers/declines the pop up for you!
EmHen girls, we need to boycott.
What the hell is that hair?! The beard? He looks like the sketchy bus mafia men in Greece.
What the hell is that hair?! The beard? He looks like the sketchy bus mafia men in Greece.
Was tempted to buy yesteryear because I keep hearing so much about it, but I absolutely refuse to blind buy a book for 9.99.
Where do you all top out?
Where do you all top out?
On kindle 99p to 1.99 if I’m really desperate but most of the time I just wait for the library. I will buy something I really want if I’ve read the author before or if I want a little treat but that’s less often just now as I’ve too much TBR
i make extremely poor financial decisions so i have no top out
if i see a book and i like the look of it i’m probably buying it tbh. i DO refuse to pay over about £6 for something on kindle though because i seriously begrudge paying £9+ when i don’t get a physical copy of the thing!
£5 for an author I've not read but has come highly recommended, and I don't think it'll appear in deals. I might go to £8 if I've read and loved the author.
I'm confident Yesteryear will be in a daily deal soon though - but I lucked out and my library got it
Mostly 99p deals, charity shops or free from the library. Unless its a book I really really want to read and can't wait another minute, which doesnt happen too much as quite often I will request from the library and wait for my turn!