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Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

September 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I heard about this book from so many people that loved it and I was reading this yesterday wondering if the author was ever going to get to the point. I didn’t dislike any character, I just didn’t feel engaged. Brodesser-Akner chose to tell this story via certain narrative styles that didn’t work. We have a first person point of view told by someone who used to be close to one of the characters that we follow for most of this book (her name is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fleishman Is in Trouble, taffy brodesser-akner

Classic's CBR11 Review No:211 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fleishman Is in Trouble, taffy brodesser-akner ·
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I kind of don’t care that terrible people made problems for themselves (Pajiba)

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

August 12, 2019 by octothorp 2 Comments

I love Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and her non-fiction is so amazing that when I saw she had written a book I almost didn’t care what it was about, into the amazon cart it went, and it just happened to be a bonus that when I looked at the books eligible for the Pajiba category for bingo, it was on the front page of results. And then I read the cover blurbs. “Just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, pajiba, taffy brodesser-akner

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, pajiba, taffy brodesser-akner ·
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