A Short Walk Through a Wide World [June 19, 2024]

[Yanique, Thread Master]

This is a Buddy Read for A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke starting on June 19, 2024.


Happy Reading!

[Nirkatze]

Thank you!

[Felina]

I’m starting this one a bit early. I do t have it for long at the library.

[Nirkatze]

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

[Felina]

I’m about 46% through and I suspect this book might suck. It’s boring and meandering and I don’t want to read it. Super cool premise but somehow so boring. And there’s a lot of weird sex. Not descriptions. Like it’s not spicy at all but the sex is distressing. (view spoiler)[ I can’t tell if it’s just a story about a woman going to point A and having weird sex with a stranger and then she goes to point B and meets a strange man who has sex with her and then tortures her and then she goes to point C, meets a strange man and has sex with him. It’s like, okay enough. (hide spoiler)] I was going to pop in here and say I was going to give it only a little bit longer but I may have talked myself into DNFing this.

[Nirkatze]

Sorry to hear that, but I'm glad you paved the way so that I'm forewarned...

[Felina]

I’m curious to see what you think. The reviews are obviously more favorable than not so but the bad reviews I read match my sentiment pretty spot on.

[Heather]

I just finished this one yesterday, and I LOVED it. I will almost never read a synopsis because I HATE spoilers. They often reveal way too much. No idea how this one made it on my list, but I am SO GLAD IT DID!

Looking forward to more people finishing it because I don't want to give out spoilers, but I look forward to discussing!

[Nirkatze]

Oooh so interesting! One love and one tempted DNF! Now I'm REALLY curious what I'll think!

[Felina]

One full scale DNF.

[Nirkatze]

Read through this today. I can totally see what @Felina is talking about--the first half or so have some very uncomfortable encounters. It reminded me of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue a lot--similar premise, and similar results, but less character focused. More poetic, more focused on the marvels of the world. I enjoyed the travels and little snippets, but the characters were washed out and the story as a whole felt weakly stitched together.