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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

The book starts off rather slow in my opinion, and the characters came across as fairly dull and uninteresting. In fact, I felt many of the main characters (the high school girls) seemed snotty, spoiled, and unmotivated. Understanding the story takes place during their summer vacation, they still seemed rather unmotivated. I just didn't really care about them until about 75% into the book. Adrienne and Cee Cee then become more interesting and develop somewhat of a bond. The ending still kept me guessing about one of the characters, but the book was overall slow to read. The pacing felt off, as it would slow down too often and speed up in quick spurts where I had to re-read sections to understand what had happened.

Overall: 4/5 stars, it took awhile for the characters to become interesting and then the book ends quite suddenly. I didn't care too much for the pacing.


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The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls Julie Schumacher Books Reviews

Be careful…joining a book club just might be the death of you. It’s the summer before junior year, and Adrienne’s mom is ruining her life. As if being stuck home with a knee injury all summer didn’t sound bad enough, Adrienne is also forced out of her comfort zone and into a mom-mandated book club. The four unfortunate members of the Unbearable Book Club are about as different as they could be average Adrienne, spoiled CeeCee, overachieving Jill, and total weirdo Wallis.

As the girls slog through the reading assignments for their AP English class, Adrienne starts to find that she has a real knack for literature and actually enjoys the books in spite of the opposition from the rest of the club. Her membership in the club is even beginning to afford her a newfound social life, though her late night rendezvous with flighty rich girl CeeCee get her into plenty of trouble.

The more they read and hang out together, Adrienne, CeeCee, Jill, and Wallis begin wading into more and more dangerous waters. By the end of the summer, Adrienne tells us in the very first chapter, someone will be dead. Who knew that a mother/daughter book club could cause so much turmoil?

Told in essay format by Adrienne, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls is a fast read filled with plenty of twists.

This review originally appeared on ABookandaHug.com
I confess, I made the mistake of judging a book by its cover before I began reading The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher. The lovely pool water, the casually tan legs, the cute nail polish and a book. I assumed that I was going off on a journey with a totally light novel.

I was slightly mistaken.

In addition to a certain degree of lightness and humor, Julie Schumacher delivers a novel of surprising depth in The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls.

Narrator Adrienne, alongside classmates CeeCee, Jill, and Wallis have found themselves completing their summer reading assignments in a Mother-Daughter book club. The girls have virtually nothing in common beyond the fact that they'll all be taking AP English next year as Juniors. The novel is Adrienne's essay, defining literature analysis terms with each chapter that I myself first learned beginning in my AP English class junior year.

Adrienne draws parallels from the required reading to her own life. A voracious reader, it was therefore easy for me to draw my own parallels from my thoughts to hers. One of my favorite moments is when she says

"To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people"*

There are a ton of laugh-out-loud moments found in the interactions of the girls. CeeCee's attitude, in particular, surprised a laugh from me more than once. Adrienne's description of some of the other girls and people also had me giggling. Every time she said that Wallis "growled" some dialogue, I couldn't help but snicker imagining someone growling out a perfectly ordinary phrase.

This isn't a book about boys. Honestly, it's not even really a book about friendships because I doubt CeeCee, Jill, Adrienne, and Wallis will ever truly talk to each other again now that the summer and the book club are over. It's about connecting. Adrienne connects with the other girls, with the literature, with her mom. And I found my eyes welling up with tears over it because the book connected with me.

Overall rating 4/5. Humor, depth, books, and connectivity. I can't say I'd ask for much more.

*Note quote is from a review copy and may have changed

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I read this because it was set in Delaware where I am from. I am a shame to have such a crappy book set in my state. It gives me hope though, because if somebody read this and thought it was worth publishing I might stand a chance someday.
Very entertaining, witty, well written book
Although not quite as powerful as Black Box, this witty send-up of summer reading lists and book clubs is beautifully written. The ending is subtle and leaves you thinking.
The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

The book starts off rather slow in my opinion, and the characters came across as fairly dull and uninteresting. In fact, I felt many of the main characters (the high school girls) seemed snotty, spoiled, and unmotivated. Understanding the story takes place during their summer vacation, they still seemed rather unmotivated. I just didn't really care about them until about 75% into the book. Adrienne and Cee Cee then become more interesting and develop somewhat of a bond. The ending still kept me guessing about one of the characters, but the book was overall slow to read. The pacing felt off, as it would slow down too often and speed up in quick spurts where I had to re-read sections to understand what had happened.

Overall 4/5 stars, it took awhile for the characters to become interesting and then the book ends quite suddenly. I didn't care too much for the pacing.