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My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel
My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.7 (11 Ratings)
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This is a lovely light read. Katie has moved from Somerset and reinvented herself in London. Now her Instagram account shows a perfect existence in modern London but the reality is far less fun. Her indomitable boss Demeter has made her work life miserable and she shares a cheap flat with strange flatmates and a hellish commute to work. Life takes a turn and Katie seizes fresh opportunities to discover what she really wants, and needs, in her life. Kinsella is skilful at telling stories of our strange contemporary lives with humour, several situations make you laugh out loud. Not a heavy read but one that has great characters and a decent storyline.
  
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To Do and Die
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2.0 (1 Ratings)
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Despite a promising start, if I'm honest, I actually found this book quite hard to get into. Never really grabbed me in the way, say, a Sharpe novel does despite having a similar theme: a tale about soldiers in the midst of a war (in this case, the Crimea).

I don't think the writing style really helped either, which I found could be quite dense and needlessly convoluted, and the heavy emphasis on the vernacular of the time also meant that it was quite easy to lose track of what was going on or what the characters were even talking about!

All in all, unfortunately, not really that impressed by this book.
  
The Opposite of Fate
The Opposite of Fate
Alison McGhee | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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In, "The Opposite of Fate," Alison McGhee takes a horrific situation allows the reader to go through it and come out the other side right along with her characters. There's so much to think about in the course of this story. I'd never wish any of the things that happened to the main character on anyone, but it gives several ways of looking at and dealing with it through the eyes of the various people that surrounded her and had a part in her life. It is definitely an emotionally strenuous story, but it's not so heavy that it's a burden to read. It was an interesting read, though heartbreaking at times.
  
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