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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
If you don't follow Duchess Goldblatt on Twitter, you need to. She is everything right in a world where everything just seems so wrong. I loved reading this story behind the story and I also remembered how much I love Lyle Lovett.
This was parts very wise and loving but parts very weird.
This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I don’t think there’s been a book that when I finished, I would have started at page one and read again. I would have, if I didn’t have so many more books to read! Her description of life and loss is so perfect I felt like she was describing my own head. Just a spectacular work. Wish I knew who she was so I could read everything she has ever written.
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
The first half was really quite excellent. But after things started really looking up for her, it just kind of... Didn't have much "there" there. It's normal and okay to have less to say when life is good, but it doesn't make a very compelling story after awhile. "You like me, you really like me!" grew tiresome. To be very fair, this isn't my genre.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent
Minor: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Listening to this book was an unexpected pleasure. I had never heard of the phenomenon that was Duchess Goldblatt, a made-up Twitter account invented by a woman going through some sad and difficult times. Through her posting she brightened many lives, including her own.
J. Smith Cameron, Gabra Zackman and especially Lyle Lovett were wonderful narrators for this audiobook.
J. Smith Cameron, Gabra Zackman and especially Lyle Lovett were wonderful narrators for this audiobook.
I confess to never having heard of Duchess Goldblatt before reading this book. Nor did I have any idea what the book was about because it was selected for my book club and I literally just started reading it without even looking at the summary. So I started out thinking (based on the cover) that it was historical fiction. Imagine my surprise.
Either way I doubt I would have chosen to read this book if not for the book club, but I am glad I did. I've mentioned in other reviews (The Seed Keeper, Dinner With Edward) that these books, while interesting for their perspective, seemed to lack humanity. Well, this book had it in spades. All of the confusing, conflicting, very human emotions at their best and worst - everything that reels you in and makes you care about the characters.
It felt at once both heartbreaking and infinitely hopeful. Given "this crazy world", this book came at the right time for me. It showed how even in the midst of the human tragedy, there is hope and love. My only regret is not being part of the Duchess culture at its height.
If you want to have a little bit of your faith in humanity restored, read this.
Either way I doubt I would have chosen to read this book if not for the book club, but I am glad I did. I've mentioned in other reviews (The Seed Keeper, Dinner With Edward) that these books, while interesting for their perspective, seemed to lack humanity. Well, this book had it in spades. All of the confusing, conflicting, very human emotions at their best and worst - everything that reels you in and makes you care about the characters.
It felt at once both heartbreaking and infinitely hopeful. Given "this crazy world", this book came at the right time for me. It showed how even in the midst of the human tragedy, there is hope and love. My only regret is not being part of the Duchess culture at its height.
If you want to have a little bit of your faith in humanity restored, read this.
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Absolutely delightful!
adventurous
dark
emotional
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inspiring
reflective
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emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I'd never heard of Duchess Goldblatt before I read a review of this book. I listened to the audio and loved the sideways aphorisms of the Duchess, and anonymous has quite a real life story as well.