Where'd You Go, Bernadette in 2017 Reading Challenge

May 20, 2018 Penny rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, 2018-challenge, audiobook

I listened to the audiobook. I'm having a hard time with rating this book. I found the audiobook narrator to be infuriatingly annoying, and I'm trying to separate that from my opinion of the actual story. In the end, I guess it was...ok.

Many of the reviews of this book stated that it is "laugh out loud funny." I didn't find this to be the case at all. Much of it was wackiness for the sake of being wacky. It wasn't even what I would consider to be satire. ...more

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Nov 14, 2019 Cyndy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-s-t

This is sort of an epistolary - emails and doctor’s reports - compiled by the FBI, obtained by Audrey, who discussed it with Bernadette, and then mailed it to Bee. Bee then combined that information with her own experiences and wrote the book titled Where’d You Go Bernadette? The book has an interesting premise, it kept me reading, and you might just learn a thing or two about Antarctica! -- “All you need to know about Antarctica is it’s three horizontal stripes. On the bottom, there’s the strip ...more

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Sep 28, 2016 Martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, read-2016

I don't really know how to describe this book other than quirky, hilarious and very readable. I loved the unique style of telling the story through emails, letters, news articles and even police reports.

I'm not sure if I can say it's about one thing or another - it's about a family, a community; about people struggling under the weight of expectations of brilliance. Overall, an easy, enjoyable read. ...more

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