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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated (Un)like a Virgin in Books

Sep 6, 2019

I'm not a huge fan of chick-lit at all. I prefer something a little more exciting than just following a woman around in her daily life.
 
That's not to say I didn't like this, because it was okay.
 
I have this thing where covers attract me to books and come on! It's a really fun, funky cover. But as I mentioned above chick-lit is not one of my favourite genre's. In fact, this was a DNF after 111 pages out of 400 and odd, though I did skim through the pages and what I thought would happen, didn't.
 
I still liked Gracie and I'm sure that if I could have brought myself to pick it back up and continue that I may have liked it. But from the 100 or so pages I read it was okay.

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Mel (490 KP) rated Lincoln in the Bardo in Books

Oct 2, 2019

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.3

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When this book first came out it seemed to be publicised everywhere so when I saw it on a daily deal I picked up a copy.
I'm not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't quite what I got. While the main thread of the story focusing on the death of Lincoln's son and the ghosts in the graveyard was interesting it felt like this was essentially a short story bulked out into a novel (given the author is far more famous for his short stories this probably isn't surprising). The use of historical quotations to tell the parts of the story taken from real life seemed more of a clever affectation than actually a useful plot device. While I finished the book and felt like I knew a little more about Lincoln the man afterwards overall I didn't think it lived up to the hype surrounding it