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All Fours
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bookshelves: non-ya, owned, literary-fiction, from-publisher-author, arc, 4-stars, recommend, reviewed
May 30, 2024
bookshelves: non-ya, owned, literary-fiction, from-publisher-author, arc, 4-stars, recommend, reviewed
my favorite genre is women going insane.
and fittingly, i don't know what the hell just happened but i had such a good time.
this book felt like unfettered ballistic nonsense, and yet it explored so much: motherhood, menopause, monogamy, other big nouns that don't necessarily begin with M.
this is a book that has so many parts (the number of sentences in this where you're just like hm. ok. let me take a second to take that one in is unbelievable) and is still more than the sum of them.
even if it's a close call sometimes.
bottom line: doesn't take itself at all seriously and is still serious.
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
and fittingly, i don't know what the hell just happened but i had such a good time.
this book felt like unfettered ballistic nonsense, and yet it explored so much: motherhood, menopause, monogamy, other big nouns that don't necessarily begin with M.
this is a book that has so many parts (the number of sentences in this where you're just like hm. ok. let me take a second to take that one in is unbelievable) and is still more than the sum of them.
even if it's a close call sometimes.
bottom line: doesn't take itself at all seriously and is still serious.
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
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May 30, 2024 10:50AM
you gotta stop drawing me in with these compelling synopses of yours
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I ‘liked� this because I’m a 50 year old woman, so the reasons are *obvious* I’d also like to ‘like� Amanda’s comment, if I could, because I almost spat out my tea 🤣
Amanda wrote: "you gotta stop drawing me in with these compelling synopses of yours"😂😂😂
What other books do you like in this genre? Because: same.
Ariane wrote: "What other books do you like in this genre? Because: same."May I suggest Nightbitch 😌 it’s all kinds of wonderful.
I would love to interview you for a New York Times article I am writing on this book! This review made me laugh. Want to email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
Ok, so I’m starting this immediately!
Irene, All the Lovers in the Night, Rouge...for odd/spiraling female main characters.
Cannot wait for this review. I’m not even half way into it, but one sentence in particular has me already convinced that this deserves nothing less than 5 stars.
Around chapter 13 or 14�
‘Even low res you could tell she’d never held her hand in someone’s hot pee.�
I mean, the sheer audacity to write that sentence� obviously this one is worth 5 well-earned stars.
i think that genre needs to be a section on goodreads 😌
You’d love Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment. I wouldn’t characterize All Fours as a woman going insane. Just reaching a point in her life of reckoning with what midlife means.
This comment is why I decided to give this book a try and thank you
Read. “The Coin� if you haven’t already!
Kristen Goran wrote: "Read. “The Coin� if you haven’t already!"i have, it's great!
Narelin wrote: "This comment is why I decided to give this book a try and thank you"oh my gosh. yay!
Jenn wrote: "You’d love Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment. I wouldn’t characterize All Fours as a woman going insane. Just reaching a point in her life of reckoning with what midlife means."i do love days of abandonment!
Jennifer wrote: "Lmao same. Add to tbr"<3
julia � wrote: "i think that genre needs to be a section on goodreads 😌"1000%
Allie wrote: "Cannot wait for this review. I’m not even half way into it, but one sentence in particular has me already convinced that this deserves nothing less than 5 stars.
Around chapter 13 or 14�
‘E..."
you leaving this comment made me so bizarrely excited when i got to this line
Tiffany wrote: "Irene, All the Lovers in the Night, Rouge...for odd/spiraling female main characters."i've read 2/3 and now have to check out the third!
Patty wrote: "Ok, so I’m starting this immediately!"YES!
Kate wrote: "Animal - Lisa Taddeo!!"such a good one!
Alyson wrote: "I would love to interview you for a New York Times article I am writing on this book! This review made me laugh. Want to email me at [email protected]. Thanks!"i'm so sorry i missed this email, will be checking out your article!!!
Ariane wrote: "What other books do you like in this genre? Because: same."there are some excellent recs in these comments!
@amanda @lisa hahahaha
The first line of your review inspired me to read this and I loved it.
I listened to this one and it was narrated by the author. It was so bizarrely and incredibly entertaining that I quickly binge-listened to all her other books.
The Wedding People and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? are two other examples of ladies going mad and running off somewhere
"i don't know what the hell just happened but i had such a good time." - excellent summary!
Completely agree. As a 48 year old woman I was alternating between feeling shell shocked and uncomfortable one moment and in the next paragraph feeling more deeply understood and seen than ever. Her narration was breathtaking, literally. Oh my god, the bathroom tiles. Just astounding.
Tiffany wrote: "Irene, All the Lovers in the Night, Rouge...for odd/spiraling female main characters."who is the author for "Irene"? I can't seem to find the right book with that title. I found a French novel that is about violent murders of women by a man, that can't be right.
This is such a good review. I loved this book even though the sex scenes were bizarre and nothing much happens. Maybe deep down we all just want to go and live in a hotel for 3 weeks.
“I don’t know what the hell just happened but I had such a good time� Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Serena wrote: "Completely agree. As a 48 year old woman I was alternating between feeling shell shocked and uncomfortable one moment and in the next paragraph feeling more deeply understood and seen than ever. He..."I agree 100%
The tiles - if they had just the right amount it would open a portal - omg yessss
@ariane - Big Swiss is another book about a middle aged woman having a midlife crisis. I also liked The Echo Wife and No One is Talking About This but they’re different. Yet still kind of similar in parts.
“I don’t know what the hell just happened but I had a good time� is such a good description for this book�. But also my life??
