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This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Díaz

Start date: December 1, 2012

Finish date: January 31, 2013

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Oct 03, 2012 Janet rated it liked it · review of another edition

I got an excerpt of this last year at BEA and met Junot Diaz who was so charming that I bought a hardcopy of this book at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Although it is a slim volume, I put off reading it and finally thought that it would probably be better in audio. I find most anything with accents, or foreign language is better in audio and that was certainly the case with this. I would heartily recommend the audio to anyone contemplating reading this, many advantages not the least of which is the cool ...more

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Oct 03, 2014 Sera rated it liked it

Shelves: audio, own, literary-fiction, 1st, plays-short-stories-etc

Diaz does a nice job on audio reading his own book, which is well written and interesting, albeit a bit all over the place. It appeared that the intent here was to have a common thread that linked all of the women with whom his main character, Junior, had had a relationship to show why he lost the one true love of his life, but unfortunately, he didn't get there for me as a reader. Moreover, Diaz intersperses the stories with those from Junior's childhood, which are interesting, but I'm not sure ...more

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Jan 22, 2015 Erika Nerdypants rated it liked it

Shelves: relationships, set-in-foreign-countries, short-stories, fiction, 2015-reading-challenge

I really liked the writing, didn't want to put this down, but by the end I felt sullied by the relentless objectification of women in this collection of short stories. ...more

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Jun 04, 2013 Amanda added it

He writes beautifully, I just don't know how to rate this one. ...more

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Dec 29, 2012 Barb rated it liked it

3.5

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Jan 20, 2014 Dee rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2010-2019

Okay, so this book did nothing for me. The characters were not well written. I could not connect with anyone in the book and definitely not with Yunior, I really thought he was a creep. The only thing I liked about the book was that it was very short.

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