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Sloane Crosley

Autor(a) de I Was Told There'd Be Cake

12+ Works 4,321 Membros 196 Críticas 12 Favorited

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Inclui os nomes: Sloan Crosley, Sloane Crosley

Image credit: 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

Obras por Sloane Crosley

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

Associated Works

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 237 exemplares
On Being 40(ish) (2019) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares

Etiquetado

2008 (24) 2009 (16) 2010 (17) 2011 (12) a ler (376) Adulto (18) Americano (10) antologia (22) audio (17) Audiobook (20) Autobiografia (17) Biblioteca (11) Biografia (18) borrowed (10) contos (48) e-livro (27) Ensaio (21) ensaios (428) Ficção (100) França (13) funny (15) goodreads (11) Humor (329) Kindle (35) lido (53) lista de desejos (19) Memórias (192) Mistério (11) MPS February 2019 (15) Nova Iorque (44) Nova Iorque (78) NYC (11) Não ficção (309) own (18) por ler (29) PRH February 2019 (14) read in 2008 (18) read in 2009 (10) Return October 2019 (29) Viagem (52)

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1978-08-03
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Australia
Educação
Connecticut College (BA|2000)
Ocupações
journalist
novelist

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Sloane Crosley em Other People's Libraries (Agosto 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.… (mais)
 
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alyosha666 | 17 outras críticas | 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 | 17 outras críticas | 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.

… (mais)
 
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hmonkeyreads | 11 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
12
Also by
4
Membros
4,321
Popularidade
#5,809
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
196
ISBN
67
Línguas
3
Marcado como favorito
12

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