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A very UK-centric collection of nursery rhymes, and not an incredibly thorough one. It's also not really a history history - there aren't really any detailed explanations or theories on the hows or whys of these rhymes. It's more of a commonplace book collecting the known and popular rhymes of the time.
The author goes out of his way to list a handful of rhymes from (British-colonized) India, and his descriptions of the people and the culture are just down-right offensive and patronizing. 😬
There honestly isn't much of anything in here that would make me recommend this book to anyone. Learn from my mistakes!
A very UK-centric collection of nursery rhymes, and not an incredibly thorough one. It's also not really a history history - there aren't really any detailed explanations or theories on the hows or whys of these rhymes. It's more of a commonplace book collecting the known and popular rhymes of the time.
The author goes out of his way to list a handful of rhymes from (British-colonized) India, and his descriptions of the people and the culture are just down-right offensive and patronizing. 😬
There honestly isn't much of anything in here that would make me recommend this book to anyone. Learn from my mistakes!
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Oh my gosh, I was not expecting this book to be as absolutely insane as it was.
The book follows three women who all fell for the same fake profile - how they met him, how they fell in love, how they started getting suspicious, and finally, how they all ended up finding each other to band together and stop him from taking advantage of other women. (Because there were other women - a LOT of them.)
And like...there was no monetary gain here. It was all emotional labor, and torment.
Mostly, I'm just trying to figure out where "Ethan" found the time to catfish multiple women at the same time, staying up late to talk to each and every one of them.
I listened to this one as an audiobook - and let me preface this by admitting that I'm new to the audiobook scene. I have trouble focusing on things like movies, podcasts, and audiobooks if I'm not doing something to keep myself just occupied enough that my brain will slow down and focus on them. But when I tell you, this audiobook is THE best-produced that I've listened to...the author is the one narrating, and she talks as if she's telling you the story personally, and they got a male narrator on to do the Ethan bits, so you don't have that weird "woman trying to do a man's voice" thing going on...just, amazing choices, all around.
Oh my gosh, I was not expecting this book to be as absolutely insane as it was.
The book follows three women who all fell for the same fake profile - how they met him, how they fell in love, how they started getting suspicious, and finally, how they all ended up finding each other to band together and stop him from taking advantage of other women. (Because there were other women - a LOT of them.)
And like...there was no monetary gain here. It was all emotional labor, and torment.
Mostly, I'm just trying to figure out where "Ethan" found the time to catfish multiple women at the same time, staying up late to talk to each and every one of them.
I listened to this one as an audiobook - and let me preface this by admitting that I'm new to the audiobook scene. I have trouble focusing on things like movies, podcasts, and audiobooks if I'm not doing something to keep myself just occupied enough that my brain will slow down and focus on them. But when I tell you, this audiobook is THE best-produced that I've listened to...the author is the one narrating, and she talks as if she's telling you the story personally, and they got a male narrator on to do the Ethan bits, so you don't have that weird "woman trying to do a man's voice" thing going on...just, amazing choices, all around.
