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Feb 2020 Space Opera BotM: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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MrsJoseph *grouchy* wrote: "Becky wrote: "I read another chapter... *Snore* of the wonders of...zzz... Nucleics...Seriously, stop letting me nominate group reads. I'm on such a fail streak there's no coming back from this."..."
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
LOL Just kidding! I HAVE read March's nomination, so I can at least vouch for that one. :D
LOLOL!
So I ended up DNFing this around 72%. My library loan for the better-formatted version I was reading was ending, and... I just didn't care all that much to renew it or read MY copy. There likely wouldn't have been much difference in my rating either way. Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I didn't comment on the lack of female representation in the book, because, honestly, I had so many other issues with it that that seemed kinda trivial, though yesterday while I was at the airport TRYING to read it, and I got to the section which opened with "[Character] steepled manicured fingers[...]. The man sitting across from [Character]..." and I made all SORTS of comments about shitty stereotyping based on manicures and not gendering the person who was steepling their fingers as female, because they don't even deserve to get a specific mention of their femininity?! WTF... But the MAN gets to have his gender weighted and thrown about with impunity... Etc etc etc. It was a whole thing in my kindle notes. O_O
...And then it was revealed that they were male. So... False alarm.
I had a good chuckle at myself for that.
I’m still working in this. It does require a bit of paying attention which I haven’t had the patience for the past few weeks. But I still love it.
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Seriously, stop letting me nominate group reads. I'm on such a fail streak there's no coming back from this."
Hmmmm. You DO realize your nom won for March, right??
:-P