I have a feeling that these sorts of posts are going to become a little more frequent than once a month as reading is the thing I seem to be doing the most recently. I hope that you don't mind and that you enjoy reading these sorts of posts as much as I enjoy writing them. My last Reading Challenge post is one of my most popular so that appears to be the case!
The second book that I read for my reading challenge was How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran.
This book took me a very long time to read. I started reading it a couple of months ago over summer and unfortunately lost interest in the middle of the book, I found it to be a little tedious and dull as the plot didn't really seem to be moving anywhere. However, when I decided to embark on my reading challenge I wanted to ensure that I finished all of the books that I had started but never quite got round to finishing. I currently have one last unfinished book to read but I will probably not write a post about this one.
Although I did lose interest in the middle part of the story once I got past the 'hump' I really managed to get into the story a little more and found the last half of the book to be more enjoyable. I found 'Dolly' to be quite entertaining and the book did make me giggle at some points.
I think the main thing that stood out to me about this story is based around a character from a working class background which is something that you don't see all too often. But other than that I could not find anything else to relate to within the main character (my life is simply not that wild) which I think may be to blame for my loss of interest.
I also found it quite hard to keep up with how time was passing as one minute she was 14 and the next she was 17 and appeared to be a completely different person. Although this may be down to the long break I took in between reading the book.
At times I found the language to be vulgar which is something that I am not a fan of. There was a considerable amount of talk about sex in the last part of the book. If this is something that you do not like I would probably steer clear of this book. I personally found a lot of the pages to be somewhat awkward to read a little bit too cringey for me.
Although this review does seem to be mainly negative points I did somewhat enjoy the book and grow a liking for the character towards the end when she begins to see 'the error in her ways'. I also found one chapter at the end of the book to be quite inspiring and it did leave me with a warm feeling and a sense of a little more self-acceptance.
I hope you enjoyed this post and as I mentioned in my last Reading Challenge I have been getting back into Goodreads recently. If you would like to follow me on there Click Here!
As always, thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed.
-Chloe
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