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Chapter 6 pp227 Plotting hag

I’m not really in the mood for this book at the moment. Not got the bandwidth.

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I don’t think I have the headspace for this book right now. Will have to come back to it.

It’s making me too angry so I’m going to take a break from it while I calm down.

Massively struggling with this. Not sure if it’s the audio format, me or whether the book is really waffly. Just feel like it’s very repetitive so going to come back to it and return it for now.

a common language [Esperanto] was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

She's loudly complaining about running out of diesel and having to cart it from a petrol station. It's an injustice! No, love, it's your piss-poor planning, so you can't complain. And the irony that when I go to update this on Goodreads, it asks me of I wasn't to but a copy on Amazon!

I bought this after stopping a bookseller in Waterstone's and asking then for a recommendation. The bookseller loves dogs, I don't, so it week be interesting to see how I feel about the story.

Still not enjoying this. It is a chore to read and although I admire the quality of the writing, the characters are either horrible or live in such depressing circumstances that I long for the day it's finished and I can berate my sister for gushing about how wonderful this book is.

Can't help feeling that trivialising herpes is a little odd. Tash is a joke of a female with an STI. In fact, the women in this book seem to be caricatures.

My Bad 'Fair enough, 'my bad' is quick to say and in a speedy game of basketball who cares if it's ungrammatical? ... Although ... 'sorry' [is] just as quick to say and 'soz' [is] even better. Nevertheless, why would you go around saying 'my bad' in normal conversation? 'I've just deleted an entire year's worth of immigration statistics. My bad.' It sounds a bit, well, ignorant'. Too bloody right, Richard.

"Goddess" 'Nigella us the posh woman who grins weirdly a lot while cooking. All right, she's also the one with the massive arse, sorry, did I say arse? I meant knockers" Richard, you forgot that she's also the one who has endless midnight snacks, does 'food porn' faces to camera and has cemented my affirmation that being a domestic goddess is a load of bollocks and I'd rather just serve up a tin of beans.

'Frenemy' 'A cowardly way of saying 'two-faced cow'' I prefer 'two-faced cow'. Much more descriptive.

"Me Time" "It's also important to understand that ... Not all women are entitled to 'me time', just the ones who have children' 'Nobody wants ... to return to the days when [mothers] stuck the screaming baby in the pram at the bottom of the garden" Funnily enough, I was given just this advice in 2012!

Your heart must look like them ugly pickled walnut things they sell at Christmas. Naasty things!

From Wikipedia: "James initially wrote fanfiction under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon", with her most notable work being a Twilight fanfiction that was eventually developed into Fifty Shades of Grey". So, that explains why the plot is like Twilight and why the book is crap. This is what Twilight is like when it's not written by someone who believes in marriage before sex.

Stop saying "oh my", it's REALLY irritating.

General consensus so far: character development poor. Sex scene #1 .... blah.

Jump to this page for a passionate snog. All the 'plot' you've missed is: Gawky student fancies businessman, businessman blows hot and cold and keeps warning her off him .... That's right, it's EXACTLY like the start of the Twishite saga.

Splendid, she's just used his toothbrush. Let's hope her Adonis he doesn't have hepatitis.

Hmmmm, this is getting a bit odd: 'I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of a minor .... And nothing prevented me from repeating a performance that affected her as little as if she were a photographic image rippling upon a screen'.

Really not sure about this ....

Are Swedes obsessed with eating sarnies and drinking coffee? I'm worried about the lack of variety in their diet!