Things I have read (I)
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This is the first of a series of posts where I’ll write some impressions on the latest books that I have read. It started as a personal log, but since I tend to read a ton of book reviews and they are my main way of discovering new stuff, I reckon that someone who reads it may also get something out of it.
The Grownup
I’m currently in Seoul for a while, and my choices for new stuff to read are limited to second-hand bookstores that have an English section, so not much reading in Spanish will be done until I am back home. So I was happy to find this one. I quite liked Gone Girl and The Grownup seemed to be a nice light story. It reads easy and has an enjoyable prose, there is a couple of nice surprises and I finished it in the time that it takes me to go through a tea. Flynn seems to really like a specific type of character, which becomes that much more apparent now that I am reading Sharp Objects. Kind of like an actor who always plays as themselves.
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