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Jonathan Unleashed
Jonathan Unleashed | Meg Rosoff
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The first adult novel from acclaimed, bestselling author Meg Rosoff, a perfect summer read about a young New Yorker whose career and love life are turned upside down when he starts taking care of his brother's two dogs. Jonathan is a copywriter at Comrade advertising agency, working on the most lucrative and most numbingly tedious account, Broadway Depot. His best friend Max works at the next desk, keeping him sane. Jonathan's girlfriend, Julie, works for Bridal 360, an online wedding magazine. When Julie suggests they get married for a live online wedding feature, Jonathan finds himself on a conveyor belt, hurtling towards the rest of his life. When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan begins to see the world around him differently. Could a border collie and a cocker spaniel hold the key to his true happiness? Their sly maneuvering on daily walks and visits to Dr. Clare, the lady vet, suggest that dog sense is several notches higher than human emotional intelligence. A contemporary romantic comedy set in Manhattan, Jonathan Unleashed is as much a love letter to the city as it is a story about tangled relationships, and dogs. Hilarious, wise and heart-warming, Meg Rosoff's novel will touch a nerve with anyone thinking about what they really want to do with their lives, and which eddy they might allow themselves to be caught in.
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DoubleI
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Laugh out loud funny and I never have that experience.

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thebluestocking
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01. Jonathan Unleashed; Gift from the Sea
02. Maple (I 🧡 the look of pumpkins but not the taste.)
03. “Jonathan awoke at 5 a.m. with a raging thirst and a bad case of melancholia.”

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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thebluestocking
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My #dollarstore #bookhaul from the other day! Isn‘t it lovely how they color coordinate? I ❤️ Lauren Graham and originally read this on audio from the library, so I needed my own copy. And I ❤️ Meg Rosoff and didn‘t even know about this book, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Jee_HookedOnBookz I love great finds like this! I mean a dollar each! Wow! Bravo, Jessica! 5y
thebluestocking @Jee_HookedOnBookz Me too! Thanks, Jee. 💙 (edited) 5y
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EvieBee
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I forgot I won this in a Goodreads giveaway! UPS just dropped it off. Yay! It's a finished book. #bookmail

LeahBergen I like when they are finished books! 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
EvieBee @LeahBergen Right?! Then you can hang on to them. ☺️ 7y
Jess_Read_This Oh wow! I love the cover on this one! 7y
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EvieBee @Jess_Read_This Yes! Not going to lie...I think it's what induced me to enter the giveaway to begin with. ☺️ 7y
Nafiza Meg Rosoff tho. 😑 7y
EvieBee @Nafiza I've never read any of her books. Is she good?! 7y
Nafiza She's super problematic. The stuff she says about diversity and rep in books on Twitter has turned me off so much that I automatically avoid her books. Her books are super white though so meh. 7y
EvieBee @Nafiza Ah. I'm not a Twitter follower because people say the stupidest things, lol! Hopefully this one isn't too bad. 7y
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CoffeeAndABook
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My current read is a #blameitonlitsy, not the first & most certainly not the last 😉😁
This one is a fun, lighthearted book with some good insights & it seriously feeds into my dream/plan of getting a dog 🐶🙌📚
#marchintoreading

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B.Reader
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Loved this book so much. It had me snorting and legit lol-ing for most of it, and hit me in all the animal-lover-feels. Definitely what I needed right now, and the ending carried some emotional weight to make it more worthwhile than what I call my potato-chip feel-good reads. Elliott also approved. #dogsoflitsy

SuperPunkNinja I'm dying from Eliot's cuteness! ❤❤❤ 7y
SuperPunkNinja Sorry, I misspelled his name! 7y
B.Reader @McShelfington It makes it hard to discipline...unfortunately he knows just how cute he is!! 🐶🐶 7y
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8little_paws Omg that nose!! 7y
398.2 He's adorable! 7y
DebinHawaii Look at that face!! 🐶❤️ 7y
Tanzy13 🐶 7y
Paula3 So cute! 7y
KassKho Omg so cute! 7y
Cinfhen 🐶💕 7y
Desha Oh your puppy is so cute! ❤️ What kind of dog is he? I have a morkie (Maltese/Yorkie) named Sophie and cocker spaniel named Star! Dogs are the BEST!! ❤️🐾🐾❤️☺️ 7y
B.Reader @Desha They are the best! Elliott is a Brussels Griffon/Yorkie mix with some other stuff thrown in. He's a shelter dog so not quite sure. I love that Yorkie attitude though! 🐶💕🐶 7y
Desha Me too! Sophie is SO feisty! 😜😍☺️ Elliot is such a cutie! 🐶🐾🐾❤️ 7y
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Elliott agrees! #dogsoflitsy

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B.Reader
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"Like a ready-made family, minus the rage" lol #dogsandbooks #bibliotherapy

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B.Reader
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Hit an emotional wall last night, Littens. I seems to have become immersed in stories of the horrible things people do to each other, particularly men-->those who identify as women (yes not all men, shhh please). Took myself to the library and am hoping some escapist lit will be therapeutic. Other suggestions for #comfortreads?

B.Reader @Well-ReadNeck Thanks, stacked!! 7y
leslieisreading I usually retreat to childhood favorites when I need a good comfort read. For me that might be something like Anne of Green Gables or A Wrinkle in Time. 7y
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howlinglibraries If you like YA, a great cutesy comfort read for me last week was 7y
B.Reader @howling_libraries I love some YA and read that one a couple weeks ago. Thanks for the rec! I thought it was great! 7y
B.Reader @leslieisreading Good suggestions! 😊 7y
howlinglibraries @B.Reader Any time! 7y
howlinglibraries Anything by Sarah Dessen is also great for a "book hangover", as I think of them... except Dreamland. ? 7y
B.Reader @howling_libraries Omg yes. Dreamland was so heartbreaking!! But brilliant. 7y
howlinglibraries @B.Reader Wasn't it?! 7y
Megabooks Rainbow Rowell!! Except Eleanor and Park. Try 7y
B.Reader @Ebooksandcooks loved Attachments! That would be a great one right now! 7y
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eedevore
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I was expecting great things from a book whose jacket touted a life changing border collie, but Dante was the most boring border collie ever. There were a couple laugh out loud moments but overall this book was just kind of boring.

britt_brooke Cute pup! 7y
eedevore @britt_brooke thank you! She may have given me unrealistic expectations for literary dogs, though! 7y
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eedevore
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That moment when your cat dares you to try reaching for that book with dogs on the cover.

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eedevore
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Sounds about right to me.

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eedevore
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Only on page two and already it's like this book is reading my journal. How many times have I told this lie?

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Sue
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Meg Rosoff and David Levithan talking ya.

#Brisbanewritersfestival. #loveya

EnidBiteEm Meg Rosoff is at the Brisbane Writers' Festival? And you're there? So jelly. Lucky you! 8y
Sue @EnidBiteEm @Ebooksandcooks Yep, yesterday was a great day to be living in Brisbane :) 8y
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readingonarainyday
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😂😂😂

This book is a riot!

Bette Sounds good. 😆 8y
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readingonarainyday
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What's the deal with guys staring at their sleeping girlfriends?? Creeeeeeepy! Can't see what's so romantic about it. The movie Paranormal Activity took care of that for me!

I'm enjoying the book otherwise though.

CoffeeAndABook Oh I do agree with you on the staring at the sleeping girlfriend thing. One tender look would do ; ) The book sounds amazing, it reminds me of a book I just finished reading: The New Yorkers by Cathleen Shine. I so enjoyed that one and am looking forward to reading a similarly themed book. And possibly getting a dog one day 🙃 Greetings from Cologne ☀️ 8y
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bermudaonion
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Cute story of finding love with the help of a couple dogs.

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tricours
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Altogether uninteresting and a waste of time. This was my next audiobook for #BookishOlympics but I gave up after one hour because I've got better books to read.

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EnidBiteEm
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This novel made me almost prefer dogs, and I'm a cat person. (Thanks to the kidlets who let me misappropriate their toys for the doggy photo shoot.)

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BooksFootballBeer
Jonathan Unleashed | Meg Rosoff
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A great read for this time in my life where I'm looking inward to figure out what I'm missing.

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Sassy_Steph
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Great, fun book, settling into a life you're not happy with is never a good idea! Sometimes you need to change everything to find your true place in life! This book is quirky! Jonathan learns so much from his dogs! I think we all can!!

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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"Unfortunately, someone has to handle the Broadway Depot account. If not you, then some other poor bastard will be driven to marriage or possible suicide.'

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geekyjojo
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My dog Lucy helped me pick my next read

kdwinchester Book dogs are so great. They especially love to be in pictures with their favorite books. 🐶😅 8y
geekyjojo They certainly do @Kdwinchester 🐶📖❤️ 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag I just finished this! Snort laughed rather a lot 😂 8y
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