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A review by ponch22
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Did not finish book. Stopped at 19%.
DNF review
Kept hearing Mallory of the Reading Glasses podcast hype this book up as one of her favorites (if not of all time, at least of 2017) & added the book to my library e-holds list.
When it finally came a few weeks ago, I started reading it without knowing what it was about. Maybe I would have liked it more if I read the summary first, but after getting a few chapters in, I just couldn't help from comparing it to a similar blockbuster (114 weeks on the NYT Best Seller list!) I read earlier this year, Tara Westover's Educated.
Unfortunately, I was not a fan of Patricia Lockwood's writing. It was shortly after reading the sentence, "Diapered, moody horses clopped by at all hours pulling carriages of kindhearted tourists, which is as good a metaphor for writing as any I can think of." that I decided maybe Priestdaddy wasn't for me.
Sorry Mallory, but the way Lockwood decided to jump around in her memoir, I had trouble following what was happening or why I should care. The "clever" writing wasn't my cup of tea so I wasn't getting much joy out of reading this and I have plenty of other books on my To Read list to waste time here.
Kept hearing Mallory of the Reading Glasses podcast hype this book up as one of her favorites (if not of all time, at least of 2017) & added the book to my library e-holds list.
When it finally came a few weeks ago, I started reading it without knowing what it was about. Maybe I would have liked it more if I read the summary first, but after getting a few chapters in, I just couldn't help from comparing it to a similar blockbuster (114 weeks on the NYT Best Seller list!) I read earlier this year, Tara Westover's Educated.
Unfortunately, I was not a fan of Patricia Lockwood's writing. It was shortly after reading the sentence, "Diapered, moody horses clopped by at all hours pulling carriages of kindhearted tourists, which is as good a metaphor for writing as any I can think of." that I decided maybe Priestdaddy wasn't for me.
Sorry Mallory, but the way Lockwood decided to jump around in her memoir, I had trouble following what was happening or why I should care. The "clever" writing wasn't my cup of tea so I wasn't getting much joy out of reading this and I have plenty of other books on my To Read list to waste time here.