Joanna’s Comments (group member since Jul 13, 2018)

Joanna’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

I’m with you about the characters. I’m all wait I know that name!?! Who the heck is he!??

Enjoying it though. It’s surprisingly pacy for such a long book.

I picked it up from the library. It’s a beast!! I’m excited. Also a little intimidated. Phew!

A chihuahua, small but feisty. 🙂

I second Dark Matter and Then there were none.

Ok it is improving for me. I may have spoken too soon!

Yes, I’m gonna keep going. I’ve had a turn around in opinions before!

I’m finding this hard going. It’s a quick read. But I feel like the characters are more like caricatures. And it keeps giving me the romance novel shudders (not trying to be down on romance books, just not my cup of tea). “Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisals”, puke. Not to mention the German soldier’s tight shirt. Kind of like a mills and boon set in nazi occupied France. I’m sorry if I’m being harsh, but Isabelle feels too stupid to make a successful spy, and sadly I kind of hope she gets caught and killed. 😬

I know I’m only 100 odd pages in, so maybe I’ll get into it soon, and feel better about it. Sorry if I’m being a Debbie downer.

I second:
The seven and a half deaths...
Blindness

I second:
I am a Cat
Then there were none.

I second:
The Metamorphosis
The Heart is a lonely hunter
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Age of Innocence

And another 2!

A Diamond Guitar, Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote, which was beautiful.

2 more!

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Capote.
House of Flowers, Capote.

12/21.

#4 for December:

The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson.

12/18

#3 for December:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson.

12/14

#2 for December:

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

FINALLY finished it! First book in December!

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy. Feel like I should get extra credit for size!

I second A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Age of Innocence.

I second A Gentleman in Moscow, and Midnight’s Children.

I second Dark Matter.

Oh it’s really good and pacey, but oh it be so big. I’m useless in the reading challenges, I’ve been downed by Tolstoy! Man down! Man down!! 😳