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I can’t rate this because I only made it through 12%, about 2 hours of audiobook. My fi**spoiler alert** I Spoiler happens at the very end of review.
I can’t rate this because I only made it through 12%, about 2 hours of audiobook. My first Liane Moriarty.
If you are going to like a book as a whole, you will enjoy the audio, the narrator is skilled. Can’t turn down an Aussie accent.
But…what is happening? Two hours in and still it’s exposition. Maybe if you have children, or are interested in the tiny details of a family life with kids, it will be compelling…but. Bored. Overall I prefer books that aren’t 100% about having kids…but I can certainly get into it if it is interesting. But how many hours must I listen to before there is a plot?
I was feeling nearly *desperate* for a book. Doing audiobooks now, and Had some Really, really good ones…then a spate of blah ones. So I desperately reached for L. Moriarty.
The reason I didn’t do Big Little Lies: my friends loved it, said I had to watch it, it was so insightful and really feminist, really talked about women, like woke or something. Anyhow, in the TV show it was wealthy white women stressing about a fancy child’s birthday, and I quickly gave up. I am not saying that intimate partner violence is better or worse depending on race….but the feminist movement has all but forgotten black women, and at this juncture, I just can’t stomach a fancy HBO show with fancy white actresses being slapped around in walk-in closets on the California coast. I understand if folks have a bone to pick with that, but that is simply how I feel. Like, Nicole Kidman gunning for the Emmy, what a gorgeous victim. sigh.
Annnnnyways…so I didn’t want to do Big Little Lies, it left that initial bad taste (you know, maybe the bad taste was really more directed at the people who told me to watch it…as if I would enjoy this femi-woke-bad-ass show, when legitimately I go to work and most days deal with IPV in so many shapes and forms I just…ok. Tangent done!)
Soooo. Back to this book. DNF at 12%. Two hours of exposition about motherhood and children was too much. And also, just dragging. I love the microscope into a woman’s mind…but here? Confused abut where the plot is.
Also, I looked it up and I guess it’s about a kid who drowns. No…almost drowns.
**spoiler alert** I Spoiler happens at the very end of review.
I can’t rate this because I only made it through 12%, about 2 hours of audiobook. My fi**spoiler alert** I Spoiler happens at the very end of review.
I can’t rate this because I only made it through 12%, about 2 hours of audiobook. My first Liane Moriarty.
If you are going to like a book as a whole, you will enjoy the audio, the narrator is skilled. Can’t turn down an Aussie accent.
But…what is happening? Two hours in and still it’s exposition. Maybe if you have children, or are interested in the tiny details of a family life with kids, it will be compelling…but. Bored. Overall I prefer books that aren’t 100% about having kids…but I can certainly get into it if it is interesting. But how many hours must I listen to before there is a plot?
I was feeling nearly *desperate* for a book. Doing audiobooks now, and Had some Really, really good ones…then a spate of blah ones. So I desperately reached for L. Moriarty.
The reason I didn’t do Big Little Lies: my friends loved it, said I had to watch it, it was so insightful and really feminist, really talked about women, like woke or something. Anyhow, in the TV show it was wealthy white women stressing about a fancy child’s birthday, and I quickly gave up. I am not saying that intimate partner violence is better or worse depending on race….but the feminist movement has all but forgotten black women, and at this juncture, I just can’t stomach a fancy HBO show with fancy white actresses being slapped around in walk-in closets on the California coast. I understand if folks have a bone to pick with that, but that is simply how I feel. Like, Nicole Kidman gunning for the Emmy, what a gorgeous victim. sigh.
Annnnnyways…so I didn’t want to do Big Little Lies, it left that initial bad taste (you know, maybe the bad taste was really more directed at the people who told me to watch it…as if I would enjoy this femi-woke-bad-ass show, when legitimately I go to work and most days deal with IPV in so many shapes and forms I just…ok. Tangent done!)
Soooo. Back to this book. DNF at 12%. Two hours of exposition about motherhood and children was too much. And also, just dragging. I love the microscope into a woman’s mind…but here? Confused abut where the plot is.
Also, I looked it up and I guess it’s about a kid who drowns. No…almost drowns.
DNF around 40% with 6 hours to go in the audiobook. It came highly recommended but…it just kept being a slog, especially listening. At one point a chaDNF around 40% with 6 hours to go in the audiobook. It came highly recommended but…it just kept being a slog, especially listening. At one point a character is leaving prison, and her dad picks her up, and the dad says, “let’s blow this pop stand.”
A dad might say that….but did you have to write it? Too many moments where I just groaned a bit. Meanwhile, I was re-listening to Redemption Road, and there is a similar scene—a man leaving prison. But in REdemption Road, it was so well done.
I don’t know. I am curious about the story. Maybe reading it is better. But I am going to struggle on with some other book....more
Highly recommend! I checked this book out because I wanted to read some thing relaxing and what can be less stressful than a book about pruning?! LittHighly recommend! I checked this book out because I wanted to read some thing relaxing and what can be less stressful than a book about pruning?! Little did I know I was about to embark upon a very interesting page turner on gardening and pruning… If there is such a thing, which there is! This seems like a must read for any gardener. Yeah but it’s a very interesting book for just about anyone!
OMG you guys!!!! This is the audiobook of a lifetime. Phenomenal, heartbreaking, heartwarming, life infusing, poignant, gripping, ear bending, suspensOMG you guys!!!! This is the audiobook of a lifetime. Phenomenal, heartbreaking, heartwarming, life infusing, poignant, gripping, ear bending, suspenseful and beautiful.
My heart was pounding, and in one moment I was exhilarated, and the next, quiet with tears. Edoardo Ballerini—thank you—for being a kind narrator who brought everything to life with such respect and compassion. How a book could be so thrilling and so moving at once…what an experience.
For the mystery killer genre it’s an easy 4 stars I think… Primarily because it was written in 1955 which is before a lot of the Cleckley work came ouFor the mystery killer genre it’s an easy 4 stars I think… Primarily because it was written in 1955 which is before a lot of the Cleckley work came out, or even Hare? on understanding psychopathy, so I just felt like the author herself really knows a psychopath or really IS a psychopath… Her writing of this character is uncannily insightful.
I mean the traits of psychopathy are so well written here, and this is before the Internet and Wikipedia and a lot of our current published data. So that is super interesting in itself. I’m kind of interested to do a little literature search and see what type of medical data were actually published at that time. At any rate, it’s the dark triad written well, And more cerebral neuroses than slashing serial-type violence so although there’s a sense of disquietude, I’m pretty good rainy day read.
Oh. My. God. This was so awful. I finished it in some kind of a weird self persecutory charge to just complete it for reasons I still don’t understandOh. My. God. This was so awful. I finished it in some kind of a weird self persecutory charge to just complete it for reasons I still don’t understand. It’s just so dark. And so awful. I was going to write a really scathing review and maybe I will return for that but I don’t wanna waste any more time on this book....more
Tm, pilot-in-training on the Rocinante & cake yum!
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