What is everyone reading in May?

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think of it?
Why did you pick that particular book to read?
How did you acquire the book?

I started listening to "The Idea of You" yesterday. Haven't finished it yet.
It is about a 39 year old divorced woman who has an affair with the 20 year old lead singer of a boy band. She meets him when she takes her 12 year old daughter and two of the daughter's friends to a concert to see the band.
It is deliciously dirty. Oh my. Oh my.
I picked it to read because I saw that they are making a movie about it, and it was available on Libby, so I decided to check it out.

I listened to "The Idea of You" per this review and others. It was more salacious than I expected (listen with airpods). I finished it in three days. It felt like a guilty pleasure. It is one of the most satisfying women's lit books that I've read recently. I'm afraid to watch the movie because I don't like the changes I've read about.

This book grosses me out. If the genders were reversed the way she objectified him due to his youth would have likely not been published. A book I truly regret buying for book club and did not finish. As written there is no way they would have made it a movie.

It's a trash sensationalistic book. why did youexpect otherwise? Read here. https://www.amazon.com/Idea-You-Novel-Robinne-Lee/dp/1250353076/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16MNOTV3VLF5Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uqiZ_GRoO01-vzscSaq7_sZ-HVCeJ09tu6swOepCd7-YDJOhsOeC4nRBZFoR_b3bWcP2k1zO3iQVjujgItefbEQWuFuJzSTKVO9_12b3whbLk7-wz4Dpjt4S7Jat4cWqwx6sa939AJsNEbBkuMuKhVoqg9PFRiC8zmqV1ZdEACRh950L0VFl36IJUVhbKsB7xUkz9Q2Um9DSP-2c7kvS837tuPkQoLvHAUDdgF7EoN8.SyMlXQTNPrAGsRqBBXj167VJb2cvp8BUsWycOBOmDmg&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+idea+of+you+book&qid=1717113452&sprefix=the+idea+of+you+book%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-1

This doesn't say I feel like I am reading from the view of a borderline pedophile but you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished Family Lore. Not my fave - definitely had some weird stuff in it about an alpha vagina. However, it was written at a higher level than most of the books I have read recently which I appreciate!!

I read this a while back and agree completely. The weird ruined it for me.

Yeah the porn and the dad . . . really not sure what to make of that still yikes.