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Mat

okwithmydecay@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Mat's books

2024 Reading Goal

75% complete! Mat has read 9 of 12 books.

reviewed The outsider by Albert Camus (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and …

Review of 'The outsider' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This book has left me thinking about the apathy, fatalism and almost the complete lack of affect by the protagonist, Meursault. I understand it is a commentary, as the back of the book says, on the "absurdity of life" but a life without ambition or feeling strikes me as very incongruous.

Mhairi McFarlane: You had me at hello (2012, Avon) 3 stars

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling …

Review of 'You had me at hello' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I bought this book because someone had tweeted it was on sale at the Kindle store, and after reading it I'd say I have a love / relationship with it. It's almost impossible to read about relationships objectively as you filter it through your own experiences, so by the time I'd finished it I couldn't decide it was realistic or an overly romantic tale.