I don’t really listen to audiobooks in the summer

Girl-bossier than I had anticipated

No clue what’s going on. Probably easier to follow on paper than in audio form

Same deal here. I think I was following this one more than An Artist but I still wasn’t very engaged. I’ll pick up a physical copy eventually! Or maybe an e-book?

I really don’t feel like I took in anything that was being said while I tried to listen to this. I want to complete my goal of reading all of Ishiguro’s books eventually, but I think I need to move away from audiobooks for him.

At one point the author was describing where the dishes were kept in the artist’s childhood home

After reading some very reader-friendly books about TV and fandom I’m not really in the mood for something from the academic lens. And I want to return it to the library. Might try another time

I’m all for experimental styles of writing, and I did genuinely enjoy a good portion of what I read. The stream of consciousness writing felt very true to the way my brain can work, and was sometimes very easy to follow. But it got to the point where reading this felt like work and it had been a few days and I still hadn’t broken through the same section. No disrespect

Okay I don’t think I’m giving this a super fair shot by stopping at 44 pages, and I think I kind of ruined it for myself by reading some reviews, but I just don’t think it’s gonna be worth my time. The whole body jumping thing is just not my vibe, and I don’t need to read about a voluntary Hunger Games where everyone is basically so hopeless that they might as well kill a bunch of people or die. And yeah, the motivations seem kind of random and implausible. Sorry, Chloe!!! There’s nothing wrong with writing YA and I think she should stick to it.

I just wasn’t paying any attention. Wanted to use this for the “non-fiction book about a startup” prompt in the StoryGraph Genre challenge, but I think I’ll just use the book about restaurant management I have to read for work. Close enough