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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
This one just wasn't for me, I think Dawns humour that I have loved in the past just didnt translate here
Honest and brilliant. It will make you want to drink a margarita.
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Sadly for me, too soon to be reading about pandemic. Also plenty of mentions of weed gummies and moaning about her kids. Not a book for me!
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I found this book thoroughly underwhelming. I like Dawn O’Porter quite a bit and find her really endearing and quite funny on Instagram, so thought I’d find this in the same vein - not so. She’s a talented writer when she turned her hand to more introspective chapters; her friend Caroline’s death and George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent bigger meditation on racism in the US and her white understanding of that. In addition she is genuinely funny and made me actually laugh aloud over her witty hyperboles. Unfortunately these factors just didn’t sustain 300+ pages (probably generously 50), so a lot of the time I just felt a bit bored with her narrative on her ‘agonizing’ childcare, over consumption of alcohol and dependence on weed gummies; coupled with cooking dinner these four things felt like the majority of the book! In the epilogue, it’s revealed that the book premise came from some Patreon blog posts and I felt this was definitely keenly felt; prior to knowing this it did certainly feel like a book overstretching itself.