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Idea, intentions and premise were very good - this book definitely speaks to an important and timely issue for women - I simply did not love how it was executed here...

14/23 I think maybe this one suffered from heightened expectations. It was ok but it took 200 pages to draw me in and the ending left me flat. The characters didn‘t feel very well rounded. All in all I was a little disappointed. I read this one for #booked2023 #titlebeginswithvorw

Cherishing an hour to myself (thank you parents!). This book is FINALLY starting to get interesting exactly half way through.

I feel guilty as a woman for not liking this- though the book‘s own Greek chorus of women would assure me that this guilt is because I am a woman… revolving around sex in the workplace, this book centers around one man, Ames, and the women who work under him (literally- on multiple levels). When they see him focus on a new employee, after many years they decide to take action. Unfortunately, I couldn‘t connect with these women & their bad choices.

Starting this one and on chap 3…so far I like the characters and wondering where this story is going.

I had a hard time rating this one. I thought the vast majority was boring and the characters boring. The end did pick up a little and I very much like reading about empowering women and equal rights. I‘ll go straight down the middle. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is the first Reece‘s Book Club pick that I‘ve had to bail on. I struggled to page 172 and just had no desire to waste my time with it anymore. The book focuses on 4 women in corporate America with a relevant storyline of sexual misconduct in the male dominated work force. The book starts with a murder which ok that‘s exciting but from there it‘s just drags on with no exciting plot development that made me want to keep reading. Too slow!

Me - right I‘m going into the charity shop to drop things off. I will not buy more books. I DEFINITELY will not buy more books.

Me 5 minutes later- 🤦🏻‍♀️

This short story isn‘t in the database, so I‘m tagging a novel by the author instead. This was short, but not necessarily sweet; it‘ll have you wanting to hug the people in your life who work to make the holidays special. 🎁
My Nespresso advent calendar and the book cover will have to do for the “Red & Green” prompt of the #FestivePhotoChallenge for #WinterGames2021 because we haven‘t decorated yet. 😂
Go #TeamGameSleighers!

There were parts of this book that were really slow and I struggled in the beginning, but the writing kept me going. This isn‘t a big thriller really in the normal sense. This book‘s ultimate message is about women and supporting each other rather than drag each other down. This is one powerful book and in the end I really liked how it came together. Lots of twists and guessing and I think it‘s a powerful and important message to be heard.

#Coworker
#ConflictedWorlds

“One of the best things about Ardie was that she could be just a little bit mean exactly when Sloane needed her to be. Sloane‘s most closely held tenet was that women could not be real friends unless they were willing to talk shit together.”

Loved this book!!

#TheBoss
#ConflictedWorlds

Image courtesy of Pinterest. I think I have my book away… I couldn‘t find it 💛

Meh. Going back on the shelf with an opinion of “ok I kind of liked you but I can‘t really nail down why you weren‘t that great.” The characters are mediocre and the twist was a bit predictable. Not bad for a beach vacay read but not engaging enough for a before bed read (I feel asleep snoozing aaaaaa lot).

A compelling read dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace, the law, and feminism. I really enjoyed this one, it made me think.

I loved this book.
A quick exciting read, It has moments where you are seething towards some characters, but feel so relieved when they receive their due.
Highly recommend checking out if you like strong female relationships and mystery!

Hmmm, yes I liked it, but didn‘t love it. It had a good ending, but it took a while to get there.
There was something about the writing that for me felt a little bit disjointed or clunky. I did really like the epilogue. I liked the last 2 pages better than the actual book itself.
Great quote: ‘We started to wonder: By whispering, whose secrets were we keeping anyway - ours or theirs? Whose interests did our silence ultimately protect?‘

Taking a moment to breathe

This is a solid pick - only negatives is that it is lengthier than it needs to be and female characters a bit stereotypical. Deals with double standards for women/work/wife/mother - the guilt women are taught to feel trying to do it all or when they only want to do some of it. Deals with power issue - not just between men and women but between women as well.
TW - sexual harassment/rape

My husband was cleaning out some book shelves and he came across this - what a find - I love #Hitchens and I loved 1984 (#ThatsClassic) so this is definitely on my TBR list!

Make a great day everyone -

@Andrew65 - going to enjoy the motivation to use my incredibly free weekend to read - #20in4 readathon
finishing my monthly goals for #BFC21 @wanderinglynn and starting to think about next months goals
continuing with #LosersClub #LosersClub2021 read of The Regulators
Not currently reading any book that fits prompts for #Booked2021 @cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage but have some lined up for next month
Happy reading everyone.

Really loving this so far, her writing style reminds me a lot of Liane Moriarty which I‘m a big fan of. Spending the rest of the evening reading and procrastinating my chores because it‘s negative degrees up here in MA. (Shh don‘t tell)

Seriously, can Misty be any sweeter?!?! Thank you for these wonderful goodies!!!! #litsylove

There were some #naughty characters in this one!! I really enjoyed it though! Thank you @AmyG 💗 and yes I‘m a day behind 🤪

Can you spy any other naughty characters on the shelf? 😉

#SleightheShelves

A group of female coworkers decide to take a stand against a culture of sexual harassment and chauvinism in the office. The writing was great, and all of the characters so perfectly complemented each other. Can‘t believe I let this sit on my TBR for so long! #Booked2020 pick for #BottomofTBR

Corporate lawyers Sloane, Ardie, and Grace hate their misogynistic boss, Ames, and try to warn newcomer Katherine about his advances, but when someone turns up dead at the firm the fingers start pointing in every direction...

Read September 1-8
Rated 3/5 ⭐️
Book 36/60

This fictional book about a group of successful business women explores their experiences and resulting adaptations they make when faced with sexual assault or harassment in the workplace. The narrator chorus and the specific women within the story described workplace harassment in a way that was eye-opening, unifying, and saddening all at once. I enjoyed it but didn‘t love it.

1) Whisper Network
2) Ruth Ware
3) Watters World
4) Warrant
5) When We We Young Adele 🎤🎼🪕

#ManicMonday

#bookreport #katies_always_booked
📖 Pride and Prejudice
📖 168 Hours
🎧 Whisper Network
🎧 Stamped

#currentlyreading
📖 Final Girls

#weeklyforcast
🎧 Ask Again, Yes
📖 The Heir Affair

Here are some of the books I‘m going to read for August. I‘ve already started the tagged book as well as One Dark Throne. 📚😁

I didn‘t think I would like this one, but God I did. The powerful female chorus that guides the reader through the book made me feel seen on several levels. I‘m lucky to work in an almost female department, but my industry (aviation) is male dominated. This book is why #metoo is important. It‘s not just the harassment and assault. It‘s all of the slights and comments that devalue women based solely on their gender. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3.5/5. This is a good book for the current times and it was refreshing to see some positive and strong female leads so that was nice. It was okay, not great or anything particularly memorable 🤷🏻‍♀️

I received the nicest surprise today! Thank you so much @Mynameisacolour ☺️ This has been a daaaaay and I wasn‘t expecting this at all! Thank you!!!! 😊

This book was slow and not very involved. I like the story, just not so much how it was done. And yes...I‘m part of #metoo, too. It‘s hard, but we have to share our stories. I don‘t know about you, but I‘m DONE being silent. Slow and didn‘t feel personal. It was very outsider-ish. I‘m thankful that the author wrote this book and included her own story afterwards. I hope it will give others the courage to stand up and speak out, too.

And so, when one of us spoke up, it was never just for ~her~. It was for us. Burn it to the ground. Our legacy would be our words. Shout it out loud. For all to hear. We were done petitioning to be believed. We were finished requesting the benefit of the doubt. We weren‘t asking for permission. The floor was ours. Listen.

Since sexual harassment was a thing that happened to women, believe it or not, we didn‘t want to admit that we had been harassed. It would be admitting that we were women in a way that mattered. So our insistence on speaking up at last ought to have been a clue of what was to come. ~We~ were going to start mattering.

We were the prisoners, strapped to the medieval stretching device, having enjoyed the rare privilege of both loving and having chosen our torturers. There was only the small matter of joints being pulled apart and our hearts spilling out from our rib cages.

Wow...that is deep⬆️💔

Everything was about work, even the things that weren‘t: Would we continue to work after children? Would we put our work goals ahead of having a family? Were we working enough? Were we working too much? Were we being paid the amount our work was worth? What were we doing this weekend, did we want to have brunch or did we have to work?

“You women all think the system is out to screw you.”
“You are the system, Ames.” She stood, stared down at him, thought about how her stilettos could poke cleanly through his eye sockets if she wanted them to.

“There was a fascinating tidbit Ardie had once heard: Women walked around the world in constant fear of violence; men‘s greatest fear was ridicule” 🖤
I really enjoyed this book!

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#BoundTogetherJune

I finished this ages ago but it still is in my head - the mark of a good book, if you ask me. There were a couple of fun twists and the characters were well-formed.

We were always looking for the perfect man. Even those of us who were not signed up for the traditional, heteronormative experience were nevertheless fascinated with the anthropological, unicorn-like search for one.

Sloane‘s most closely held tenant was that women could not be real friends unless they were willing to talk shit together. It was the closest thing she knew to a blood pact that didn‘t involve knives.

🤣

I really wish I had loved this one.

I was guessing until the very end. Even though some of the characters frustrate you, gotta love a book about strong women friendships.

It was impossible to remember a time before this instinctive and immediate fear for our safety had set in, the need to glance over our backs when crossing an empty parking lot, to check beneath our cars, to bristle when a strange man walked closely, to startle when he stopped to ask the time.

#JamminJune #Whisper
@Eggs

#whisper #jamminjune @Eggs

This feels more broadly applicable today. Because if your feminism isn‘t intersectional then it isn‘t feminism.