Before & After
Floating Instruction + Elizabeth Zott’s Laboratory Story
Swimming Lessons in Chemistry
poorly written. the most florid prose i’ve read since i went through a bodice ripper phase when i was twelve!
File this one under "I'd rather squeeze lemon juice into my eyes for a couple hours".
So yeah, I don't really trust everything that Harry says especially as Harry's account is an incoherent, poorly structured and messy diatribe that is all over the place. Most of it makes little sense and sounds like it's coming from an angry, emotional and illogical place.
Spare
Based on Goodreads data, which book had the most overall ratings?
Lessons in Chemistry (1.3 million)
“DNF… clunky, cringeworthy, painful, in need of an editor, typos begin on page 1 and continue to the end.
There was a good story in there somewhere; unfortunately the author never found it
Like a Fox to a Swallow
Which book was inspired by the beginning of a tale that reads: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show
Demon Copperfield
Someone who spies inappropriately + Ann Pachet’s summer tale
Peeping Tom Lake
In conclusion, the author see everything through the lens of victimhood and thus alternative explanations, outside of bias, elude her.
Totally biased and circumstantial not worth reading
If you just want to be angry at men and society, this book will do it for you.
Invisible Women
Based on copies sold, what were the two top selling books in 2023, both of which have been read in this group?
1. Lessons in Chemistry (4 million)
2. Spare (3 million)
I could've saved time and read a laundry list of cliches instead of reading this book.
apparently this book only supports women in stem if they're atheists.
Lessons in Chemistry
This play was in the inspiration for “Tom Lake”
"Our Town"
Unseen females + Titanic boat boarding rules
Invisible Women and Children First
Very unfortunate time to release a book designed to convince us people are basically decent. Have you seen people?
One thing he is good at. Pointing out false experiments so the paradox is, that one thing I took from this book is: don't trust anyone.
I've experienced the world enough to know this book's central tenet is utter bullshit.
Humankind
Men are how many times fertile than women?
50x
I couldn't finish this bland, slow moving book. The blurb sounded so enticing and exciting but after 150 pages of absolute nothing, I realized I could have finished another and better book.
No story, no sense of place, no sense of character. Feels like it was written by a very serious writing student trying desperately hard to please his professor by inserting 25 cent words at random and coming up with the most inane metaphors I've ever read.
The Sympathizer
Which book was inspired by the author’s recent doctorate in Creative Writing and Historical Fiction Research?
Benevolent Society of Ill-mannered Women
Hugh Grant film about his friendship with a young man + Australian Drug story
About a Boy Swallows Universe
the only people that I know that have finished this book are more stubborn than me
This book is indeed an ocean which is only half an inch deep!
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Women are how many more times likely to be seriously injured in a car crash (within 5%)
47%
I was intrigued by the title. It sounds dreamy and exotic. The book itself is a crass, dull, tacky, two-dimensional peer into the lives of a group of tedious, dysfunctional bogans.
Your end is simply ludicrous. This book is a hot mess. A.Frigging.Hot.Mess. Gore YA, if there's such a thing.
Boy Swallows Universe
Arthur 'Slim' Halliday was a real life friend and inspiration for Trent Hall. What was the name of the real book about Slim and his prison escapades?
The Houdini of Boggo Road
People are not trash book + Miles Davis’ most famous album
Humankind of Blue
the entire book reads like cathartic ramblings of a diary a therapist might suggest you keep to deal with your emotions, not exactly suitable for publication.
Most interesting part is the title.
is an un-relatable cookbook, with the only recipe being one for disaster.
Crying in H-Mart
Within 10 years, how many years are between when David Copperfield was published and Demon Copperhead was published?
173 years
1849-2022=173
What a tedious read, felt like the uninteresting ramblings of an octogenarian. The clunky attempt to include ((redacted)) was the last straw for me.
This book is so boring. .none of the characters have any personality. I thought this was going to be a love story, it's more like a whole bunch of nothing.
Tom Lake
While writing the memoir, “Crying in HMart’ Michelle Zauner was inspired to write an entire album of music. Name either her band or the album.
Japanese Breakfast "Jubilee"