Imatge de l'autor

Sloane Crosley

Autor/a de I Was Told There'd Be Cake

12+ obres 4,321 Membres 196 Ressenyes 12 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Inclou aquests noms: Sloan Crosley, Sloane Crosley

Crèdit de la imatge: Author Sloane Crosley at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44374900

Obres de Sloane Crosley

I Was Told There'd Be Cake (2008) 2,337 exemplars
Cult Classic (2022) 348 exemplars
The Clasp (2015) 332 exemplars
Look Alive Out There: Essays (2018) 283 exemplars
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (2010) — Editor — 155 exemplars
Grief Is for People (2024) 55 exemplars
Up the Down Volcano (2011) 31 exemplars
Sad Stuff on the Street (2018) 7 exemplars
Speaking of Work 2 exemplars
The Pony Problem 2 exemplars

Obres associades

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 237 exemplars
On Being 40(ish) (2019) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Data de naixement
1978-08-03
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
New York, New York, USA
Australia
Educació
Connecticut College (BA|2000)
Professions
journalist
novelist

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Sloane Crosley a Other People's Libraries (agost 2018)

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Meh. The narrator was so comepletely unlikeable and I don't think she was meant to be. I found her self-centered and shallow. Her only redeeming quality was that she was gracious enough not to continue to burden her ex-boyfriends with a relationship. Her frieds were also jerks...they all seemed like a redundant and flat group of people that I'm glad I don't know personally. beyond the annoying characters the premise of the plot was...huh??? Plot: Guy pays a lot of money to do a secret experiment on annoying girlfreind instead of just having a conversation with her about what a complete self-centered ass she is.… (més)
 
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alyosha666 | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Mar 3, 2024 |
With such a cool title, I expected more from this than flat characters and a minimal plot.
 
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bookwyrmm | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Feb 6, 2024 |
Going by the official Goodreads Designation here: 2 stars = "It was OK"

I didn't hate it, I didn't love it. Some of these essays are funny all the way through, some have funny lines, some are just random anecdotes that I'm not sure why they even made it into a book. I saw somebody in another review said this is like snippets from chatting on the phone with your funny friend and that's true - just random stuff thrown together about stuff that happened to her.

I think this seems like the perfect book to have handy for reading in waiting rooms or in a noisy train station or something when you want to read something but can't really concentrate too carefully.

… (més)
 
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hmonkeyreads | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Jan 25, 2024 |

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Obres
12
També de
4
Membres
4,321
Popularitat
#5,809
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
196
ISBN
67
Llengües
3
Preferit
12

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