so-soI‘m not sure what to make of this book. It has all the ingredients I‘m looking for at the moment. Friends spending time together, romance, dealing with a new pandemic reality. And yet I never felt drawn in. The characters felt too flat, their storylines too thin and the final scenes made we just want to get it over with. Definitely not my favorite for the #ToB22 play-in round.
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Flaneurette, KarenUK, Megabooks, Cinfhen, BarbaraTheBibliophage, Cortg, Suet624, Laughterhp, alisiakae, squirrelbrain, thebluestocking, Ruthiella, sarahbarnes, RaeLovesToReadsquirrelbrain I still can‘t get hold of this one for ‘free‘ (or cheap!). Your review suggests I should even stop looking for it. 2y
TrishB But a great pic ♥️ 2y
BarbaraBB @TrishB Reataurants opened again so we treated ourselves to some cool Mexican! 2y
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BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Regarding the ToB I can‘t imagine it‘ll even enter the tournament 🤷🏻♀️ 2y
Cathythoughts I agree with @TrishB Yes ! A great pic 2y
Cinfhen Such a cool photo 🤩Did not like this book at all 2y
Suet624 I recently received it from the library but all indicators are that it‘s not worth the time to read it. I have another book of his about his life that I thought I would really like but I only got through 50 pages because I felt too removed from it. 2y
KarenUK I felt the same! Gave it a so so…. 2y
Megabooks I felt the same way you did. 2y
RaeLovesToRead I've bought this because I've read some others by Gary Schteyngart and the premise sounded good... not hearing a lot of great things about it though 😬😬😬 2y
thebluestocking Hmmm. I‘ve got this one from the library right now. While I kind of want to be a shortlist completist, I‘m leaning towards skipping this one and Copeland. 2y
Ruthiella I‘m still plugging away at it, but I suspect it‘s not going to be a favorite. 2y
BarbaraBB @Suet624 I read and was underwhelmed by another book by him too so I won‘t read him again.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Super Sad True Love StoryBarbaraBB @KarenUK @megabooks @Ruthiella It‘s just not a good enough. I think it shouldn‘t even have made the play-in, there were much better books on the longlist. 2y
BarbaraBB @thebluestocking I‘d read Copeland if I were you! 2y
sarahbarnes I think I‘m going to skip this one for sure. 😁 2y
sarahbarnes And good to know about Copeland - I haven‘t read that one yet either. 2y
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes Me neither 😂 and yet I‘d read that one 2y
Hooked_on_books I had a very similar reaction to this one. 2y
kwmg40 Your feelings about the book seem very similar to my own. The setup was promising but I just didn't get drawn in. 2y
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