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3.71 AVERAGE
Stephanie is SUCH a good writer. She does such an amazing job describing the story and experiences in each of her books. She includes a good mix of research and statistics in this book that adds to the ancentdotal aspects. It truly helps explain the circumstances so many people have to live with everyday.
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abortion
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Gave up after the second unexpected graphic sex scene.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
reflective
medium-paced
I really loved "Maid" and was excited when this was picked for our One Read at my work. The idea behind picking this particular book is that we, as employees of a community college, could really understand the struggles our students may be going through so that we can serve them better.
There was one scene in particular that hit that point hard.
The rest of it - not really sure this is the book to make that point.
If Land had focused on her entire journey navigating higher education instead of so much of her personal life, I think that book would have been the right book for our One Read. I know both of these go hand and hand but it was predominantly her personal problems and less a hard journey through higher education.
One of my colleagues said she thought Land must have fought with her editor. I agree: the last chapter ("Coraline") had the names Jess and Jen used interchangeably to describe two different women. One was a cousin and the other was a former preschool teacher. It was very confusing.
I agree that Land's voice, and others like hers, need to be heard but maybe in a little less detail.
There was one scene in particular that hit that point hard.
The rest of it - not really sure this is the book to make that point.
If Land had focused on her entire journey navigating higher education instead of so much of her personal life, I think that book would have been the right book for our One Read. I know both of these go hand and hand but it was predominantly her personal problems and less a hard journey through higher education.
One of my colleagues said she thought Land must have fought with her editor. I agree: the last chapter ("Coraline") had the names Jess and Jen used interchangeably to describe two different women. One was a cousin and the other was a former preschool teacher. It was very confusing.
I agree that Land's voice, and others like hers, need to be heard but maybe in a little less detail.
informative
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
challenging
sad
medium-paced
Whoops--I listened to this before I listened to Maid, and it's basically a continuation. That's fine--doesn't impact the storytelling, at least as far as I can guess, just dumb on my part. Land recounts her senior year of college (in her mid-30s) and all the financial and relationship fuckery that made it the hardest, hungriest year of her life, but hopefully didn't impact her daughter Emilia as intensely. Land is a good narrator--straightforward with just hints of emotion in her voice at the my trying parts of her memoir. I'm eager for the next book, and I want to find out what happened to that dickhead in the creative writing department who said that kids don't belong in graduate school. Like that's her call to make!
dark
emotional
informative
sad
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced