#Alex Approximately

[bookishfreedom]

no better feeling than successfully recommending someone a book

[catsbookreviews]

Alex, Approximately - Jenn Bennett

The "plot twist" is literally in the blurb. Talk about a spoiler alert.

Story: This girl, Bailey, moves to this town in California, which just so happens to be where her online pen-pal/crush lives. But she also starts falling for this guy that drives her crazy, in a shocking turn of events that is definitely not stated on the back of the book, he is actually her online crush.

Review: Anyways, this book really bugged me because the main plot point wasn't revealed until the end of the book. It was also just okay anyways.

Overall 3/5 ⭐️

[lawbreaker13]

Not my usual type of post but I just need to say it somewhere;

I just finished reading Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett and like. First off I have a new favorite book. Second, HOLY CRAP CAN I PLEASE HAVE A PORTER. LIKE PLEASE THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD AND THE CHARACTERS WERE SO WELL WRITTEN AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS THAT COULD’VE BEEN EASILY RESOLVED BECAUSE THEY MOSTLY JUST TALK IT OUT LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE EXCEPT FOR THE REVEAL BUT YOU EVEN END UP SIDING WITH PORTER BECAUSE COME ON AND LIKE IT WAS ALL VERY WEIRDLY REALISTIC AND OHHHHH MY GOSH IT WAS JUST SO GOOD

ALSO THE MAILBOX SCENE. THE MAILBOX SCENE. PEOPLE THINK I CARE ABOUT THE SEX SCENES NO THE MAILBOX SCENE I AM NOT OKAY

Anyway yeah, highly recommend, good book

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Alex, Approximately | Author: Jenn Bennett | Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2018)

[op81s]

alex and pato on a playdate.

[matherines]

Six(ish) Sentence Sunday

thanks so much to @kiwiana-writes @ssmtskw @getmehighonmagic @leojfitz and @songliili for tagging me!!

this week’s six (kind of) sentence sunday is brought to you by “for research purposes,” my objectively ridiculous author!henry au.

Unfortunately, writing sex scenes requires… practice. Blocking. Knowledge of limb placement and anatomy and physical stamina of (at least) two people that Henry simply cannot accurately source from his left hand or his bedside drawer.

It’s Pez’s idea to try dating apps again. Henry hasn’t been on Grindr in years, but it only takes a little bit of wheedling and at least four vodka shots before he’s downloading the app again and changing his bio to “Seeking partner for literary research.” From the fact that his profile picture just barely obscures his dick, a prominent V line acting as a prominent enough suggestion, he thinks that the kind of research he’s aiming to conduct is fairly obvious.

as always, no pressure tags to @affectionatelyrs @happiness-of-the-pursuit @read-and-write- @saintlynomenclature @anchoredarchangel @anincompletelist @littlemisskittentoes and anyone else who may or may not have already shared their words this week!

[lonelyroommp3]

put the women's fa cup final on tv and it really is a deep internal battle between me wanting to root for spurs for the sake of my beautiful bestie alex vs me just thinking mary earps is so so fit

[bloodoftremere]

It's obvious

Tonight is gonna be the loneliest

[bradshawsbitch]

Fuck the Astros

YEAH BITCH

[let-them-fight]

whoever submitted alex yiik…… im making the friendship bracelet rn

[bookishfreedom]

i impulsively picked this book up to take to brunch the other day and then never put it back down

[fuckwhoeverpickedallthefunnyurls]

Crocheting while listening to the mutual playlist <33

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Classic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush. Faced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life—or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth—a.k.a. her new arch-nemesis. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter. And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately.

[currentlyonstandbi]

there’s so many writing choices in this film that i could gripe about but i can’t deny the way the end scenes have me chewing dry wall. we’ve just spent the entire film seeing alex paint himself as the victim in all of this, a hapless bystander swept into the insanity of nigel’s world and having to pay the price for it. there’s little hints here and there that maybe there’s more to the story - e.g. nigel’s comment about alex and susan (to which alex offers immediate refutation) - but there’s never any real and clear indication. until the end. until we get that 9 month time skip and we see sally pulling up to the cemetery. until we learn that susan’s grave has been dug up and the skull stolen. and then the train scene my god, the reality sets in that alex has been playing them this entire time, that he’s become the very thing nigel always wanted him to be. the ending to this film is both the end of alex’s story and the beginning of jack’s.

[theenemyod]

Because I want everyone to suffer with me: ages of deaths for magisterium characters!

Aaron: 14/15

Jericho: 14

Drew: 12

Alex: 19

Constantine: ≈24

Sarah: ≈24

Declan: ≈24

Jennifer: ≈16

[jupiterthroned]

a look at my Morgan avi in SL! screenshots courtesy of @neuroticminisecuritron