Before reading Queenie, I had seen the book compared to Bridget Jones’ Diary, a novel I found witty and charming. I loved Bridget and her quirks. She owned her flaws—smoking, drinking a bit too much, not being as successful at work and love as she wanted to be.
Queenie is also a single twenty-something young woman who works in journalism and is just out of a long term relationship. There’s also a Darcy in Queenie’s life, but her Darcy is a female coworker, not an antagonistic man turned love interest like Mark Darcy is for Bridget. •
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‘Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.’
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That quote is so much of what was wrong with this book for me. I know there was a point to Queenie’s behaviors and her recovery from them, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around the extent to which she let things go. I just couldn’t. I wanted to tell her to stop — and get some help. •
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She got some help, but sheesh. •
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Queenie is also a single twenty-something young woman who works in journalism and is just out of a long term relationship. There’s also a Darcy in Queenie’s life, but her Darcy is a female coworker, not an antagonistic man turned love interest like Mark Darcy is for Bridget. •
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‘Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.’
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That quote is so much of what was wrong with this book for me. I know there was a point to Queenie’s behaviors and her recovery from them, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around the extent to which she let things go. I just couldn’t. I wanted to tell her to stop — and get some help. •
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She got some help, but sheesh. •
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