Heidi
good, quality advice. not super in depth but still helpful for new/recently new career seekers.
An insult to the kink it attempts to illustrate. Poorly written, reads like a clunky porno script. Also, please tell me who finds “brown eye” a sexy way to describe the butt hole or “vertical grin” anything more than a goofy urban dictionary name for a vagina? I was tempted to finish it to see how ridiculous it could become, but couldn't bring myself to waste time on this when I could be reading something worthwhile.
Her cynicism throughout most of the book towards everything in general was irritating. It got better, but (spoiler alert) it was basically a wittier, less cheesey version of the move the Ugly Truth, almost exactly the same plot. Also, after reading her first book, The List, my expectations were higher; I loved that book.
A little more stressful to read than I expected. Some of the trauma she unloads is very heavy stuff. Not that it shouldn't be unloaded or talked about, and she did warn us in the beginning that part of her writing the book was so she didn't have to be funny all the time, but it felt unbalanced by the humor and levity you expect from a comedian's memoir. Some of the humor surrounding these more difficult parts felt cheaply self-deprecating.
Overall though, not a bad book, and will probably be good for other fans of Whitney Cummings comedy.
Really could have done without the excessive history of the first patient. Not saying it wasn't useful or necessary but it took up way too much of the book.
This is a good book for someone to get a base understanding of how Alzheimer's exhibits in people, in many forms. But if you're looking for deeper explanations and scientific background, this is not your book.
Love it. Read it a lot. Characters are pretty believable. Stories of each girl are also pretty believable and relateable.
3.5 Stars. interesting and well-written. This story is clearly well thought out, and was able to hold my interest for its nearly 700 pages. It's a very creative story line that made for a good story. I'm not a huge fan of the way the author talks directly to the reader sometimes and mentions how he just sees this story playing out. Also, he takes a lot of tanget stories. And the ending, I have mixed feelings about it. It's not what I expected, and it's well done, but I was kind of hoping he'd take a different route.
It's hard to rate this book. It's so well written, and was able to keep my interest, and the author made these characters so well. It follows a few characters whose lives are either intertwined or tangential, and how their lives were impacted by each other and by Cold War Era European Soviet occupation. It's a philosophical character-driven story that was very well written.
Good story, but lacking in many ways and told from a depressing viewpoint. Until the last chapter I found myself wanting the book to end.
The first 50 pages were sad and discouraging, but don't let them stop you from reading this amazing book. Brashares always manages to put things into perspective and make me remember what matters. Characters all very relatable. Love this book, and this series.
Love this series, it's my favorite. May be my favorite book, can't remember; I read all the books so close together and so fast that I can't remember which is which.
Very well written, and a really good story. There were a couple times I thought I had it down and didn't have the ending pinned down. I don't know much about how memories and amnesia work, but it seems well researched. I've read some reviews that say it was hard to believe, but idk if they were memory experts or not. Either way, I really enjoyed this book. I listened to the audio book and it was very well done.
This book really resonated with me. Such an amazing book, way more than I expected. So real and raw.
Well-written, except during flashbacks. Story is interesting, but wanders. Some plot holes skimmed over by a rushed ending. Maybe you're supposed to infer? Overall, I felt it was just ok.
Well written, and a good story, it just wasn't one of those books that's on my mind while I'm not reading it, so it gets 3 stars. Good enough to make me consider reading the next one, though. Kept true to the classic Holmes personality well enough for me to be ok with it involving his character, which is one thing I had been worried about before reading it, but it turned out well.
Started out really strong, eerie vibes, interesting story. Got a little lost as it went on, and got way too tied up in human drama that was made to seem a bigger deal than it ended up being. This made the story feel underdeveloped and the drama kinda seemed like it was there to carry the story through parts the author didn't have material to cover rather than incorporate more of the actual story at hand. Sure the characters back stories are relevant, but they could have been taken care of in a less heavy handed way. It was a fun read though.
I low-key hated this book. I got about 2/3 in, for reasons I can probably only describe as sunk-cost fallacy, I have a very hard time not finishing a book. But this one just really sucked.
Where is the chemistry between Anna and Cam?
Cam is a gross pushy man who follows Anna home and forces his way into her apartment after she says no.
He is regularly surprised when Anna reacts like a sensible human to situations because she's a woman and to him women are silly delicate people who need protection. Or how he called her mom defenseless in the scene where she is mentioned (not spoiling it here).
He also marvels at how she's “not like other women”, see again references to her not being totally stupid??
She's a strong smart woman who somehow falls for Cam's minimal boomer man charm...not sure this needs more explanation.
This book probably wasn't a great one when it came out but damn it has not aged well.
