so-soI wasn‘t a fan of Blue Nights, but when this showed up on The NY Times “Best books of the 21st Century so far” I thought I should give her another chance. I don‘t like to be negative about a memoir, especially not a memoir about grief. But Didion is not for me. #unpopularOpinion
bailed#UnpopularOpinion ‼️ I just can‘t. The writing is just not doing anything for me. I‘ve made it to page 58. I don‘t care about the characters. I‘m not sure if it‘s because I‘m reading the book right before it‘s due back at the library and I really want to read something else or if it‘s just the writing
bailed#unpopularopinion #definitelymenotyou
Not understanding most of the cultural references and the language/slang the boys use - hear the second half is very good but not willing to keep reading the first half.
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so-soLikely an #unpopularopinion but while I liked & appreciated much about this story of a Korean family‘s life in Japan, I didn‘t love it. I suspect that has something to do with the scope & breadth of the story which follows four generations—the sheer number of characters means that many often get surface treatment, motivations sometimes remain elusive, & it‘s easy to feel disconnected from them. Not bad, but I was hoping for more emotional depth.
pan#unpopularopinion but the movie is way better! I found book Holly bratty, selfish, and completely unlikable. And the book is a lot different from the movie, which I do love and adore. Capote‘s writing is good, except for the blatant racism and homophobia. For such a short book, it took me forever to read it because I just wasn‘t excited to pick it up again.
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so-soEddie and April take a wrong turn, end up on a road in a town where hitchhikers regularly get murdered and get caught up in the legend of the Lost Girl. The connections they make about who the lost girl is seems to come out of nowhere. The twist at the end was interesting but did not add to the story at that point. Overall, it was an easy read, not great, not bad - just so-so.
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bailedI know this is an #UnpopularOpinion but, I really just can't get this one done. I have been working on it for a while now, I am about 65-70% done, but I just never want to pick it up to finish. It's probably just me.
Oh well.
#DNF #HailToTheBail
pickI'm going to table what seems like an #UnpopularOpinion here - I loved this #CampLitsy24 selection. I loved the four Flattery sisters, in all their high achieving but emotionally stunted messiness. But mostly I loved how Hughes really made me grapple not just with the story presented, but with how it was presented and why. cont'd in comments
so-soMine is an #unpopularopinion, but I was bored to tears through most of this. I‘m sure the audiobook narrator didn‘t help, but there are nonfiction authors whose writing is more compelling, IMO. It wasn‘t until the last visit to the Hawaiian islands and Cook‘s death that things got interesting. I struggled to convince myself to pick it up, as evidenced by the fact that I finished with only 2 hours left on my Libby check out.
