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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
“You can't ask someone to help you without letting them know you're different than advertised, that you've been thinking and feeling strange things this whole time. That you're uglier, weaker, more annoying, more basic, less interesting than promised.”
Millie is all of us, I think. Maybe not in the same aspects, but parts of her personality I think can speak to everyone. All combined together though? She’s terrible. Stuck in a dead end temp job, we follow Millie through a mundane existence of alway hoping to be better, but never following through.
This book made me really sad actually. Not in a good way, but because she was so awful. I wanted to like this, and there were parts I did like, but I found it really, really hard to want to pick up this book and quickly read it. In a real world where I often feel like days are just on repeat, I’m not sure I’m interested in reading about someone else’s mundane life, if that makes sense.
Millie is all of us, I think. Maybe not in the same aspects, but parts of her personality I think can speak to everyone. All combined together though? She’s terrible. Stuck in a dead end temp job, we follow Millie through a mundane existence of alway hoping to be better, but never following through.
This book made me really sad actually. Not in a good way, but because she was so awful. I wanted to like this, and there were parts I did like, but I found it really, really hard to want to pick up this book and quickly read it. In a real world where I often feel like days are just on repeat, I’m not sure I’m interested in reading about someone else’s mundane life, if that makes sense.
The person in this book hates their job more than I hate my own which made feel feel this strange combination of anger and empathy or camaraderie. A bit rambling in parts and I think the kindle version needed one more pass over the editors desk.
It was good and I loved how real the main character was in her despair with the mundane work world. The subject was getting heavy but I plugged along until the end. And the last chapter must have been the publisher telling the author "turn in your book by the end of the day". Everything was resolved in one chapter that was the equivalent of "They lived happily ever after" without any explanation or ties to anything in the rest of the book. I would have been happier if something - ANYTHING happened to end the story. Nothing ended the story but the book ended. I wasted my time. 2 stars was for the potential this book had. Save yourself some grief - stop half way through and make up your own ending.
yes i agree capitalism is a curse and people still want to go shopping
i liked this a lot. it went in a kind of different direction than what i thought it would, but i really enjoyed and related to the character of millie. though, i don’t necessarily know if that’s a good thing.
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Interesting summary of life kind of. The cyclic aspect of mediocrity.
funny
medium-paced
finished a minute ago and couldn’t even tell you what happened in this book...190 pages of some privileged person ranting about their oh so terrible life. I don’t even know what initially made me pick this up.