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Bubblesandflowers

I've finished The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. That's my 3 library books in 1 1/2 weeks. I'll pop to the library tomorrow and find my next reads. I wanted to read the "You" books. Reserved book 2 by accident 😂 I've released that hold and going to try to get hold of book 1 "you".
 
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francaispangol said:
I started Exciting Times last night - took it to the hairdressers to try and read (instead the trainee tried to flirt with me 🙄), I'm just not loving it? I think it's the style - disappointed as I am also a TEFL teacher abroad with romantic problems 😂
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I really did not like Exciting Times. I struggled through and made myself read it all
 
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Caffeine Fiend

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I really need to start a new book as soon as I finish one.

I finished Will Dean The Last Thing To Burn on Sunday and havent picked anything up yet. I find it so hard to start a new.
 
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francaispangol said:
I started Exciting Times last night - took it to the hairdressers to try and read (instead the trainee tried to flirt with me 🙄), I'm just not loving it? I think it's the style - disappointed as I am also a TEFL teacher abroad with romantic problems 😂
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That's one of my worst books of the year, I got so angry reading it that nothing was happening.
 
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Pinkii

Reading ask me again, yes.

i usually love a story through out the decades kind of book but this one seems to jump ahead and then spend ages going over what happened in the past..

Anyone else read it?
 
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That's one of my worst books of the year, I got so angry reading it that nothing was happening.
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I am so glad I have not picked it up! I was tempted as I do like some angry/depressed millennial women literary fiction (It's an expanding genre 😂 ).
 
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Oohthedrama

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Finished Rock Paper Scissors last night, what a pointless book. Such a disappointment.

Also finished Last Night at Chateau Marmont, I’ve read it before but completely forgot the story (it’s been ten years!) I really enjoyed it! Didn’t even realise I had it downloaded.
 
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Bubblesandflowers

My morning trip to the library was successful. Picked up 7 books. 6 for me and 1 for OH. I've finished the first one - Convenience store woman. It was a quick read (163 pages) and was really good. I've had it on my wish list for over 2 years so really glad I picked it up.
I've done a quick look at the prices of the 14 books I've got from the library the last few weeks. If I purchased kindle it would've cost £72. Paperback would've been £102. That is a crazy amount saved!
 
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Oohthedrama

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Bubblesandflowers said:
My morning trip to the library was successful. Picked up 7 books. 6 for me and 1 for OH. I've finished the first one - Convenience store woman. It was a quick read (163 pages) and was really good. I've had it on my wish list for over 2 years so really glad I picked it up.
I've done a quick look at the prices of the 14 books I've got from the library the last few weeks. If I purchased kindle it would've cost £72. Paperback would've been £102. That is a crazy amount saved!
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Id be lost without the library now!!!!
 
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Oohthedrama said:
Id be lost without the library now!!!!
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I can only say again how much I love it when you talk about using libraries. They are under constant threat in England and their funding decreases every year. This year senior managers questioned if we actually needed a book fund to buy new books or could we source them “elsewhere “! Every time you use your library service you support it, thank you on behalf of library staff!
 
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marjan

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Been so busy with work lately that I completely lack the energy to read at night 😅 I'm 1/3 done with the song of achilles though and I absolutely love it so far!!
 
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Oohthedrama

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Geranium said:
I can only say again how much I love it when you talk about using libraries. They are under constant threat in England and their funding decreases every year. This year senior managers questioned if we actually needed a book fund to buy new books or could we source them “elsewhere “! Every time you use your library service you support it, thank you on behalf of library staff!
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Aw this makes my heart happy! i talk about the library none stop now 😂 I even have my neighbour using it again, she’s in her late 70’s and learned how to use the app and now goes back to the actual library every week, I hate that it took lockdown for me to really appreciate it again! I’m honestly the biggest fan at the moment, it’s like a sweet shop to me. 😍
Btw, furry purry bean cat saved a library from closure, the kids were reading this from the library app 😂

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Oohthedrama said:
Aw this makes my heart happy! i talk about the library none stop now 😂 I even have my neighbour using it again, she’s in her late 70’s and learned how to use the app and now goes back to the actual library every week, I hate that it took lockdown for me to really appreciate it again! I’m honestly the biggest fan at the moment, it’s like a sweet shop to me. 😍
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Same! I had a card that I opened at the beginning of 2020 and all summer I was just getting books from my library!
 
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francaispangol

Finally finished Exciting Times this morning - I literally threw it across the room, my boyfriend was rather concerned :ROFLMAO: So glad it's done - I have so many books to read (and so many that I've started to finish!). Currently reading Atlas of AI and Quiet: The Power of Introverts, but will pick up another fiction book once I've stopped being angry at Exciting Times!
 
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DietGossip

francaispangol said:
Finally finished Exciting Times this morning - I literally threw it across the room, my boyfriend was rather concerned :ROFLMAO: So glad it's done - I have so many books to read (and so many that I've started to finish!). Currently reading Atlas of AI and Quiet: The Power of Introverts, but will pick up another fiction book once I've stopped being angry at Exciting Times!
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I feel so validated that other people hated this book too. Did you really enjoy the bit where
They have a whole conversation where she says she's moving out, he says ok, she gets angry at him, says she's not moving out and he just goes ok
 
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francaispangol

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I feel so validated that other people hated this book too. Did you really enjoy the bit where
They have a whole conversation where she says she's moving out, he says ok, she gets angry at him, says she's not moving out and he just goes ok
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The whole relationship was just like ??

Did I miss the point of the book? I just didn't GET their relationship
 
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