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The Last Chance Library
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bookshelves: contemporary, non-ya, project-arc, from-publisher-author, arc, 3-stars, eh, reviewed
Jul 28, 2021
bookshelves: contemporary, non-ya, project-arc, from-publisher-author, arc, 3-stars, eh, reviewed
Things I like:
- books about books
Things I don't like:
- British people
In truth I think I was put on this earth in order to balance out the Anglophiles who drink tea (which tastes like hot wet dirt) and wear Union Jack merchandise (red white and blue is a displeasing color palette) and enjoy teen pop sensations with accents way past their prime (I went through it too but let's face it, the golden age has passed).
Anyway. The long and short of it is that while British writers are good and the cities are pretty, contemporary books make me uncomfortable and I hate thinking about their food.
Anyway again: Onto this actual book.
I like these sweet chick-lit-type books (and I know I'm not supposed to call it that) from time to time. There's usually an almost too kind elderly character. A very mean elderly character. A friendly age appropriate male neighbor. Another mean guy or gal who turns out to be a nice guy or gal.
This had all that in spades. The romance was extremely bad, in my opinion, and I've seen the aforementioned cast o'characters done better, but overall this was fine and good.
Minus the Britishness.
Bottom line: Pretty good, even better if you're not a curmudgeon / Anglophobe.
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challenging myself to read as many review copies as possible this month because i'm addicted to projects!
ARC 1: spaceman of bohemia
ARC 2: in search of us
ARC 3: aerialists
ARC 4: the sound of drowning
ARC 5: unleaving
ARC 6: the other side of luck
ARC 7: romanov
ARC 8: the storm keeper's island
ARC 9: gut check
ARC 10: when force meets fate
ARC 11: sisters in hate
ARC 12: before i disappear
ARC 13: big time
ARC 14: stolen science
ARC 15: have a little faith in me
ARC 16: invitation to a bonfire
ARC 17: the splendor
ARC 18: how to be luminous
ARC 19: the little women cookbook
ARC 20: while we were dating
ARC 21: the lost girls
ARC 22: wait for it
ARC 23: your life has been delayed
ARC 24: a million things
ARC 25: the royals next door
ARC 26: the love hypothesis
ARC 27: we light up the sky
ARC 28: the printed letter bookshop
ARC 29: on location
ARC 30: how rory thorne destroyed the multiverse
ARC 31: the map from here to there
ARC 32: the last chance library
- books about books
Things I don't like:
- British people
In truth I think I was put on this earth in order to balance out the Anglophiles who drink tea (which tastes like hot wet dirt) and wear Union Jack merchandise (red white and blue is a displeasing color palette) and enjoy teen pop sensations with accents way past their prime (I went through it too but let's face it, the golden age has passed).
Anyway. The long and short of it is that while British writers are good and the cities are pretty, contemporary books make me uncomfortable and I hate thinking about their food.
Anyway again: Onto this actual book.
I like these sweet chick-lit-type books (and I know I'm not supposed to call it that) from time to time. There's usually an almost too kind elderly character. A very mean elderly character. A friendly age appropriate male neighbor. Another mean guy or gal who turns out to be a nice guy or gal.
This had all that in spades. The romance was extremely bad, in my opinion, and I've seen the aforementioned cast o'characters done better, but overall this was fine and good.
Minus the Britishness.
Bottom line: Pretty good, even better if you're not a curmudgeon / Anglophobe.
---------------
challenging myself to read as many review copies as possible this month because i'm addicted to projects!
ARC 1: spaceman of bohemia
ARC 2: in search of us
ARC 3: aerialists
ARC 4: the sound of drowning
ARC 5: unleaving
ARC 6: the other side of luck
ARC 7: romanov
ARC 8: the storm keeper's island
ARC 9: gut check
ARC 10: when force meets fate
ARC 11: sisters in hate
ARC 12: before i disappear
ARC 13: big time
ARC 14: stolen science
ARC 15: have a little faith in me
ARC 16: invitation to a bonfire
ARC 17: the splendor
ARC 18: how to be luminous
ARC 19: the little women cookbook
ARC 20: while we were dating
ARC 21: the lost girls
ARC 22: wait for it
ARC 23: your life has been delayed
ARC 24: a million things
ARC 25: the royals next door
ARC 26: the love hypothesis
ARC 27: we light up the sky
ARC 28: the printed letter bookshop
ARC 29: on location
ARC 30: how rory thorne destroyed the multiverse
ARC 31: the map from here to there
ARC 32: the last chance library
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Jul 29, 2021 06:12AM
is it super british in an annoying american way or is it just set in the uk? I can't stand the first one 😭😭😭😭
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Lou wrote: "is it super british in an annoying american way or is it just set in the uk? I can't stand the first one 😭😭😭😭"just set in the UK...i sometimes can't stand either!!
I’m very interested in the fact that you LOVE Jane Austen and Lewis Carroll but you also don’t like super British things
Emma wrote: "I’m very interested in the fact that you LOVE Jane Austen and Lewis Carroll but you also don’t like super British things"hahaha modern england is just...different
Is no one else going to comment on how horribly racist this is? "Things I don't like: British people". Seriously???
That's funny if I was born 200 years ago I'd be pro and anti British at the same time. Like a slippery fish. Oh pretty good review.
naur there’s something hilarious in americans hating britain bc quite frankly the rest of the world very much hates americans the most 🥴
I am English and I agree with everything (especially books set in modern UK) except the bit about tea. I will fight you. Tea is what we live for and on. It is the nectar of the gods.
imagine my surprise, the fourth or fifth time i've made this joke, that it hit close to home this time! sorry everybody. you're right. tea is elegant and red white and blue IS a common color palette despite being ugly! i'll begin my apology tour now if that suits
M(^-__-^)M_ken_M(^-__-^)M wrote: "That's funny if I was born 200 years ago I'd be pro and anti British at the same time. Like a slippery fish. Oh pretty good review."pretty good.......you know just how to get to me
Rachel wrote: "It's hilarious how entirely opposite you think, but how much I still enjoy your reviews."my fav thing about this site!
A wrote: "I'm arab so I think I'm legally obligated to be an anglophobe... your review made me crack up though🙃"omg i'm <3
susie wrote: "naur there’s something hilarious in americans hating britain bc quite frankly the rest of the world very much hates americans the most 🥴"wait...people hate americans?? no way....since when? who told you that? oh my god
Steph wrote: "I am English and I agree with everything (especially books set in modern UK) except the bit about tea. I will fight you. Tea is what we live for and on. It is the nectar of the gods."steph i truly promise i wish i liked tea!!!
emma wrote: "susie wrote: "naur there’s something hilarious in americans hating britain bc quite frankly the rest of the world very much hates americans the most 🥴"wait...people hate americans?? no way....sin..."
I hate and love at the same time...so there!!
If you don’t like British people why do you read books about them?
If you don't like British things, why on earth read the book? Jesus, what a racist.
This review isn't racist. "British" isn't a race, it's a nationality. And an AMERICAN saying this about BRITAIN is not xenophobic either. Had they said "Mexicans", "Indians", "Ethiopians", it would have been xenophobic. "British" ? No. Had they said "black people", "indigenous people", "asians", it would have been racist. British? No.And yes. The rest of the world may hate America, but they also hate the British. Don't get it twisted. They're both colonial powers and everybody attributes some of the worst atrocities committed against their countries to the British. Don't exclude yourselves from that, brits.
