the classic story: boy meets girl, boy is actually elderly man who was once girl's teacher but girl doesn't remember his name, boy and girl embark on the classic story: boy meets girl, boy is actually elderly man who was once girl's teacher but girl doesn't remember his name, boy and girl embark on mutual alcoholism
this book does capture what it means to be lonely, and how it feels, but also it just didn't hit me at the right time? i'm much closer to being in school in age than i am to this former student or her elderly teacher, and the dynamic between them kept taking me out.
overall it felt more like a traditional romance than i wanted it to - i was hoping for lit fic or something experimental - and the circumstances made me uncomfy.
and i'm not sorry about it!
but i like this author and i'll keep reading her and i'm not sorry about that either!
in 2017 i read (and hated) an entire series of romance novels without adding them to my update feed, due to (presumably) masochism and self-hatred. hein 2017 i read (and hated) an entire series of romance novels without adding them to my update feed, due to (presumably) masochism and self-hatred. here is (more) evidence of that mistake that full review:
this...was...fine.
it definitely had the most likable female character of the series. so that's a plus. also about a 200% decrease in slut-shaming and girl hate, which was magnificent. granted that's mainly due to the fact that the hate was being centered right on one girl-villain, but still.
this book wasn't as fun as the first one, but it wasn't as cringey as the third. i dunno. the first one is certainly the best, but i'm not mad that i read this series, i guess. at the very least a very good thing for my reading challenge.
bottom line: if this seems like something you'd like then read it? i honestly can't summon a feeling about this book at all so have fun...more
like, really good. i make minor saints look like podcast hosts. (some of the worst people known to man.)
in other wori am a really, really good friend.
like, really good. i make minor saints look like podcast hosts. (some of the worst people known to man.)
in other words, i read entire, terrible romance series for my pals even when every page feels like a paper cut. (and if you're like, paper cuts aren't even that bad, so it must have been okay, then when was the last time you got a paper cut?!)
this was bad, anyway.
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in 2017 i read (and hated) an entire series of romance novels without adding them to my update feed, due to (presumably) masochism and self-hatred. hein 2017 i read (and hated) an entire series of romance novels without adding them to my update feed, due to (presumably) masochism and self-hatred. here is the evidence of that mistake full review:
i don't know why i'm going to read this whole goddamn series, but i'm going to read this whole goddamn series.
this was not fun at all. i did learn about myself that i can never find anyooooone attractive if they have a mohawk, even if it's a fictional character and even if my time would be spent a lot more entertainingly if i could find said fictional character attractive.
the characters from the last book kept showing up but they were like totally different people. if you told me that this book was written by a totally different author - like, that jamie shaw isn't real and someone handed some writer a list of names and was like "they're in a band" and that was all the info given, i'd buy it.
why did i write so much? i'm not even adding this to my update feed.
this book has two of the best YA contemporary romance tropes (spending just one day together + staying in touch by correspondence) and it still managethis book has two of the best YA contemporary romance tropes (spending just one day together + staying in touch by correspondence) and it still manages to be no fun whatsoever.
kinda impressive.
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you've heard of "it's not you, it's me," now get ready for "it's not you, shakespeare or othello or the thematic significance of honesty versus deceptyou've heard of "it's not you, it's me," now get ready for "it's not you, shakespeare or othello or the thematic significance of honesty versus deception, it's one horrible professor i declared my enemy 5 years ago."
it doesn't have as much of a ring to it, maybe, but it's true.
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seeing as i read it 5 years ago, you may be tempted to be like "yeah...duh..." BUT.
i must remind you of my bizarre bi don't remember this book at all.
seeing as i read it 5 years ago, you may be tempted to be like "yeah...duh..." BUT.
i must remind you of my bizarre brain, and further that i have been reviewing books i read 6 or 7 or 8 or a million years ago - because i am a timeless nightmare entity haunting the book community - with relative ease.
so this wasn't a bad book, i can tell by my leftover 3 star rating.
but that's all i have to say about it.
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i remember i had to do a book report on a work of nonfiction in early high school, and i thought i really gamed the system by picking a comedian's memi remember i had to do a book report on a work of nonfiction in early high school, and i thought i really gamed the system by picking a comedian's memoir.
little did i know this would be one of the most stressful, anxiety-ridden, and worst of all banjo-infested books i would ever read.
steve martin was discussing the line between stand-up comedy and mental illness decades before bo burnham did it.
however i liked it way less.
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my greatest achievement in this life - and something i still bring up literally every time i have the chance - is that i read this book for a freshmanmy greatest achievement in this life - and something i still bring up literally every time i have the chance - is that i read this book for a freshman-year college lit class and was constantly bugging everyone by talking about how much the text itself really seemed to hate women.
i may not have been as capable then as now of separating the narrator from the author, but i had the ability. and i was like...something is off here.
everyone disagreed with me all the time forever.
and then junot díaz got #MeToo'd.
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this was once "required reading" i had in a "textbook" sense and it was truly one of the most boring, useless, and annoying books i have ever encountethis was once "required reading" i had in a "textbook" sense and it was truly one of the most boring, useless, and annoying books i have ever encountered in an academic setting.
it's almost impressive, to be all three.
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i read this in an english class, due to suffering from the affliction of a professor with a sherlock holmes obsession, and this just does not hold up i read this in an english class, due to suffering from the affliction of a professor with a sherlock holmes obsession, and this just does not hold up to the level of scrutiny that pulitzer prize winners were carrying off, easy peasy.
this is a great mystery, yes, but you try analyzing it for symbols and word patterns and etymology and tell me if you had fun with it.
i'm a huge nerd, and even i thought it was a snooze of a task.
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