I’ve got a killer headache tonight but wanted to get this written before my book club meeting tomorrow night. I finished reading our book choice today, Alice Feeney’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, and I have to say that I didn’t really enjoy it. I won’t bother giving a summary, but I’ve read or listened to a couple of her books in the past, I think Daisy Darker and Sometimes I Lie, and I think I enjoyed them more than this one, but I don’t really recall any details. Anyway, I found this book to be repetitive and totally unrealistic, even by “unreliable narrator” standards. I would not recommend it. I wonder what the others will say. But since there were “word of the year” headings for some of the chapters, I at least learned a couple new words: Metanoia, literally changing one's mind, means a change in one’s way of life as the result of penance or spiritual conversion; and schadenfreude, a term I’m familiar with but never quite knew the proper meaning, is the the emotional experience of pleasure at another’s misfortune.
That’s all for tonight. Stay warm and keep reading!!
Bye for now... Julie
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