KittyClimpson rated Husband Material: 4 stars
This was very fun, but the ending was super abrupt, and the denouement leading up to it felt very rushed to me. Shame as this would otherwise have been my favourite version of Four Weddings and a Funeral
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KittyClimpson finished reading Husband Material by Alexis Hall (London Calling, #2)
KittyClimpson started reading Husband Material by Alexis Hall (London Calling, #2)
Husband Material by Alexis Hall (London Calling, #2)
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This was a very fun read, but has the same bugbear as everything set in London: super unrealistic housing. the protagonist is supposedly somewhat down at heel, with a dead end job, and the description of his flat is very much designed to evoke a garret - but he has a flat. In Shepherd’s Bush. That he rents. By himself. With a separate bedroom, not a studio. Even a separate kitchen, by the sound of it. And we are led to believe that he never accepts any money from his mum. I don’t live in London, and one of the reasons for that is that my job (which is not very high level, but I don’t personally consider to be a dead end) pays just about enough to cover the rent on the cheapest such place available in Shepherd’s Bush today. With about £100 pcm left for literally everything else. …
This was a very fun read, but has the same bugbear as everything set in London: super unrealistic housing. the protagonist is supposedly somewhat down at heel, with a dead end job, and the description of his flat is very much designed to evoke a garret - but he has a flat. In Shepherd’s Bush. That he rents. By himself. With a separate bedroom, not a studio. Even a separate kitchen, by the sound of it. And we are led to believe that he never accepts any money from his mum. I don’t live in London, and one of the reasons for that is that my job (which is not very high level, but I don’t personally consider to be a dead end) pays just about enough to cover the rent on the cheapest such place available in Shepherd’s Bush today. With about £100 pcm left for literally everything else. In other words, the idea that the mc would have been able to keep this flat for five years after splitting from his partner and “going off the rails”, without help from his mum, is a bit silly
KittyClimpson rated Boyfriend material: 5 stars
KittyClimpson finished reading Boyfriend material by Alexis Hall
Well that was delightful
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KittyClimpson rated Fake Dates and Mooncakes: 3 stars
KittyClimpson finished reading Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
Tag line is “heartstopper meets crazy rich asians”, and that describes it pretty well. Fun and fluffy!
KittyClimpson rated Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: 4 stars
KittyClimpson finished reading Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah
KittyClimpson started reading The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
KittyClimpson stopped reading It's Not a Bloody Trend by Kat Brown
Afraid I’m dnf’ing this. There’s only so much talk of how people organise their shelves I can take. I didn’t find the personal stories very relatable, even when they did objectively relate to me (as in, describing things I, too, experience), it just all seemed very bitty and a lot of the sections by the actual author came across as padding for the personal stories and vice versa?? Like, I don’t even know which bit I found less engaging, but the constant switching between the two modes made it infinitely worse. I know this book has been literally life changing to a lot of folks, and more power to them, but it’s not for me.
KittyClimpson started reading Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah
KittyClimpson started reading The Woman in White (Vintage Classics) by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London …
Listening to this on a librivox recording. I’ve read it before and enjoyed it, it’s a classic. I remember asking my housemate who knew it, at one point: “Do the baddies win??!?”, because I just couldn’t see how the author would get the good guys out of the deep deep hole they were in, but of course he did!