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A review by audreykerr
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
2.0
Would I have enjoyed this more if I had hardcoverly read it vs listening to it?
Who knows. Maybe I would have enjoyed it less. Maybe I would have quit.
I definitely would have skimmed and skipped!
Ask me to write a book report on what this was about? Forget about it.
This book could have been at least a quarter of the size and it would not have suffered for it and made its point with the experimental style of writing. I did enjoy some of this book....but then there was just a lot of rubbish stuffed in between all the bits I enjoyed. It was roller-coaster of good and eye-roll inducing bad. I found a correlation between what I was doing when listening and my mood when was listening. I enjoyed the book more when I was in the kitchen, both cooking and cleaning. I sometimes enjoyed it on a long walk. I did not like it when sitting down to listen to it. All of this meaning nothing of course, just an observation - a sentence which can fit in after most utterances in the book.
I feel that a big chunk of this book could have been written by creating a twitter-bot based on a midwestern American remarried divorcée who likes baking and doesn't like Trump.
Who knows. Maybe I would have enjoyed it less. Maybe I would have quit.
I definitely would have skimmed and skipped!
Ask me to write a book report on what this was about? Forget about it.
This book could have been at least a quarter of the size and it would not have suffered for it and made its point with the experimental style of writing. I did enjoy some of this book....but then there was just a lot of rubbish stuffed in between all the bits I enjoyed. It was roller-coaster of good and eye-roll inducing bad. I found a correlation between what I was doing when listening and my mood when was listening. I enjoyed the book more when I was in the kitchen, both cooking and cleaning. I sometimes enjoyed it on a long walk. I did not like it when sitting down to listen to it. All of this meaning nothing of course, just an observation - a sentence which can fit in after most utterances in the book.
I feel that a big chunk of this book could have been written by creating a twitter-bot based on a midwestern American remarried divorcée who likes baking and doesn't like Trump.