Reviews - The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Snippets of life from a strong female lead. Heartbreaking. Heartwarming. Funny! Just what I need in a book. First read in high school. Reread in my early 20s. Took away something different both times...Bank is definitely up close to the top of my favorite authors list!

julibug86's review against another edition

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't. She writes well and I love short stories all about the same character, but something was missing. I even identified with the main character! But something was missing.

maddiearch's review against another edition

2.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

At this point I’m finishing this popsugar list on some sort of weird principle that started when I was 20. I’m very confused about this book. It’s depressing honestly. About a woman who dates shitty men, lives in New York, works in publishing, then advertising and seems generally unhappy with her life. I guess the whole point of it was to chronicle her relationships? I’m really not sure. A large part of the book is spent on her relationship with a man who is 28 years older than her. The relationship goes nowhere. We get one chapter where she glazes over getting breast cancer and being in a relationship with an unnamed man, which also doesn’t work out. Then we see her in the final chapter, trying to follow the advice of some cheesy self help relationship book. It’s actually kind of annoying because she has this internal dialogue with the two authors of the book, which doesn’t appear anywhere else in any of the other chapters. It’s like the author just threw together a bunch of fragments of thoughts. Anyway all this confirmed to me that living in New York is hell, dating in New York is hell, and you can be single and miserable in what I’m presuming are your late 30s while you work a job you hate, all in New York. I honestly don’t ever want to read a fucking book like this that takes place in New York. I’ve lived it. I don’t need to read about it.

dja777's review against another edition

2.0

Annoying protagonist. Nothing special.

embo970's review against another edition

2.0

I don't know... easy read, boring, what was it? Not sure, rambling pondering on boys? All of it is about one girl, except for one random, unexplained chapter about some people who live under her... Cute ending, but it's not like she was trying to overcome Cosmo-style advice the whole book, just the last chapter. Pretty stupid actually. Would never recommend this to anyone.

5aru's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really loved the clear, yet lyrical prose in this one; it was reminiscent of Salinger in a way that manages to be a compliment rather than just a box to fit this author in. A very insightful look at girlhood, growing up, and the pressure which men — knowingly or not — exert over women.

Tw for a really rather gross age difference relationship though.

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