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The English Experience by Julie Schumacher
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really liked it
bookshelves: netgalley, contemporary-fiction, satire

All abroad!

A reluctant faculty member, hoping for an uninspiring break at home, finds himself chaperoning Payne University’s Experience Abroad program to England.
His students appear to be just as reluctant especially the one who thought he was going to Jamaica.
Jason Fitger designs his program around the written word desiring a 500 word essay each night about the student’s perceptions of the institutions visited. All very ho hum, although their responses often made me hold my head in my hands, unsure as to whether laugh or sigh.
Talk about Reluctanter meeting Reluctantees!
Hilarious at times and poignant at others, this is what happens when these particular two R’s meet.
I wasn’t sure, if given a choice between the two, Fitger or his students, which I felt more sympathy for.
Some absolute language usage gems and wonderful turns of phrases abound.

A Doubleday ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.
(Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.)
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Reading Progress

August 4, 2023 – Started Reading
August 9, 2023 – Shelved
August 9, 2023 – Shelved as: netgalley
August 9, 2023 – Shelved as: contemporary-fiction
August 9, 2023 – Shelved as: satire
August 9, 2023 – Finished Reading

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