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Between the Covers Romance Book Club November Choice. Selected Trope: Enemies to Lovers
okay my review was GOING to be Gus and January I love you..... but ....... ugh the last fourth (or so) of the book was really not great IMO! I took a whole star away for the ending. like maybe when they got together it just wasn't FUN ANYMORE sorry does that make me basic? I don't know? I just felt the ending really soured Gus especially in my head. :(
book & cook club November Mystery Books choice!!
I was hooked into this book, and it got its teeth around me! I had my gripes with it, mostly based on the pacing, but I really did like it. The payoff and twist were sufficiently shocking and tasty, yum yum yum I ate it UP! Maybe I'm just still a hater of popular things, but this just doesn't quite deserve all the hype it got when it came out..... tbh. ALSO just to add this as well, this threw me into a mystery/twisty suspense kick!
entertaining, interesting, and memorable!! I loved reading through these letters and seeing the creative ways that the author chose to speak as he slowly lost letter by letter!!! I love a novel in letters :D
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the fact that the whole thing, i mean the ENTIRE thing is written from August's (A MAN'S) perspective....... HELLO IT'S WOMEN TALKING where are the women :( Someone I talked to about this book tried to argue that this is the point and some kind of meta-commentary but I just wanted women to write some pieces of this :/
an interesting read and an even better research topic to look into the real story!!
literally how did i do this twice- I once again read a sequel without reading the FIRST?!?! how did I even manage this and I feel as though I need to start looking up books in detail before reading them.
anywayyyyy a captivating read that took me a little while to get into, but definitely got me in the second half!
text to a friend after i completed the book: "there's just not one piece of that book that justifies its existence"
i thought this book was borderline unreadable and barely read half of it before giving up- it is a book i came across through no one's fault but my own (thank god none of my perfectly lovely friends recommended it to me) because i was innocently browsing the fiction section at my library and we all know by now that a book with interesting formatting, I am probably going to pick up! I love it when they are shaped funny or have weird quirks. Anyway, this book is written all through emails or texts and it is unbearably difficult to comprehend. Not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure all of these women hate one another and yet they are supposed to be the best of friends... feels like a hate crime towards the idea of womanhood and the deep incredible love that can be held in female friendship.... all these women wanted to do was tear each other down and undercut one another's successes!! also it was the most millennial style of humor and "hey girlies" dialogue I've ever read!!!!! and as someone with a millennial sister, i know even THEY can be funnier and more self aware than this!!!! wow I am usually not so picky but this one was ROUGH
Genuinely enjoyed this one! I've never read a book quite like it. Had some questionable bits but overall was an intriguing story, well written and entrancing. Left the book feeling like I further understood the boys story and life
There is honestly nothing wrong with this book. Its colorful and descriptive, uses easy to comprehend language and is full of just about every career you could imagine. It's useful for researching one specific career but its also kinda fun to just browse through (esp. as an artist type- you get to see just how much more business men make than you!- yippee!)
Like I said before this is the end-all be-all perfect career guide and it is holy in my opinion.
picked it up from the library because the formatting intrigued me (there are pages that are turned upside down, to the side, etc, and this bright red thread leading through every page) and I didn't quite believe that it belonged in nonfiction. however, I now think that categorization was correct! I think I would have enjoyed an audiobook version of this, or a video version, far more than the book-ish edition, it's something, a topic, that I would've watched a video essay about (my obsession with hour+ youtube videos has re-surged) and felt more engaged with. But I felt in book form that the storyline was clunky, and it was difficult for me to go back and forth from general maze-talk to more mythology/Greek talk, with no real parameters. perhaps my rating was also affected by my current ability to focus, sinus pressure and multi-day migraines really do tear ya down, what can I say.
OOOOHHHH goodness that ending :,,,) I'm not scared anymore (crying)
sooooo this was my least favorite of the series!! but that does not mean I didn't enjoy it. I think the reason it was my least favorite is because the author kept doing this interesting thing that I'm not sure how to describe exactly.... I'm going to call it predictive emotion. A scene would happen, with the author very literally describing what was happening (think "I told Peeta I would see him the next day") and then the next sentence would be putting emotion behind whatever the action was (think "That made Peeta furious, because he could tell I was upset") and I was constantly thinking.... really? The predictive emotion I was supposed to gather from the happenings "on-screen", so to speak, felt inaccurate to me many many times. I was like.... is that the emotion I'm supposed to get from that conversation?? Am I.... stupid????
to give the author the benefit of the doubt, maybe that is the reason they were using so much predictive emotion, because most people wouldn't understand the emotional tones without the author specifying what we should understand/feel? Maybe that was their intention to make things more clear? It sort of just left me wondering if I was speaking and acting like an alien or if that was the characters in this story.
stunning, incredible, life changing, one of the best things I've read in a long time and got me completely out of a reading slump!!
https://archiveofourown.org/series/590482 I will never apologize for reading fanfiction
somewhat inspiring and an enjoyable, short read! I think it could've been better if the timing was clearer, or the timeline was laid out easier for the reader to grasp, but I do understand that the not-doing-that was intentional... like it was obviously ambiguous on purpose, that just isn't usually my style. anyway, glad to call another book completed after this silly reading slump I've been in!
a shockingly good ending to wrap up a book that's taken me nearly a year to finish! I'm sorry, but the first section I got into had such a lack of interest for me that I immediately fell off putting the effort in and almost gave up. My mom reminded me I wanted to read it last month though, and I came back around. We were supposed to read it as a buddy-read in March. She finished it before April, and you see how my progress went.
Anyway! The book was a stellar ending that managed to make me overlook the beginning and middle bits I didn't jive with. I think it ultimately just could've been better throughout, but I can also see how someone would disagree with me. I loved the way Hannah led us through the story bit by bit so that we picked up on little things throughout, but never all at once. I never felt tempted to "guess ahead" either, because the story was always giving me something to think about, such that I wasn't trying to skip to the "big shock". Even at the very end, which I guess I would consider the "big shock" I still was happy at the pacing that the author chose.
I wrote in my book journal in response to the question: "Who would you recommend this book to? someone with mom trauma. but like... not too much
the literal definition of a page turner to me! not the usual pick for me, but interesting nonetheless!
THIS BOOK MADE ME MAD AND ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED AND ANNOYED I hate it when people don't act like people and I will maybe never pick up another one of these silly animated cover books... I didn't even finish it because I was so annoyed >:(
also, how did I not even realize it was a sequel.... lol
i think I would've enjoyed this book more overall if I watched iCarly or Sam & Cat a lot when I was a kid. I think I would've understood more references to specific episodes or situations, that I just purely didn't understand because my family was decidedly NOT a nickelodeon family. Either way though, I found the book an intriguing look into the rough childhood of McCurdy, and the writing in many of the chapters was incredible at conveying difficult feelings and situations. This wasn't always true, some phrases seemed clunky or overly catchphrase-y, but for the most part I thought it was a good book!
there were some really... interesting? Grammar choices in this book and it wasn't written the way I would've written it, but I appreciate it for what it is :) It was formulaic, but had some enjoyable pieces!!
I think this book was a tad formulaic, but I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing! I really haven't read a lot of mysteries, and this was a pretty well written version of one. I want to watch some other folks and their opinion on it, especially those who are more into reading mysteries, because maybe they liked it less because it was less complicated? overall, though, I did enjoy my experience and I do not think it was a waste of time. That gives it at least 2.5 stars, in my opinion.
some really wonderful advice from an interesting perspective. I can't say anything rocked my world as someone who has read a great deal of mental health advice, but I still found it impactful. It can be nice to hear things over again, especially in such an actionable way
SUCH an enjoyable read!! I really want to read it right over again, so I can pick up on more details this time. I found the style captivating, and the stories both realistic and impactful, something that changed my perspectives on things. 100% would read again, and 100% so happy I did!! Thank you to my dear friend, Deanna, who sent me the book :) <3