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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
AMAZING. A new favourite book, for sure. All the feelings and all the skill, wow.
Loved the stories woven together- a little hard to follow listening on audio, though. So many interconnected lives and all the unique stories that bring them together.
This book was amazing. Absolutely one of the best things ive ever read
Edit: on second thoughts, the transphobia near the end was a little unnecessary and just kind of came out of nowhere :/ still really enjoyed the book but that did bug me
Edit: on second thoughts, the transphobia near the end was a little unnecessary and just kind of came out of nowhere :/ still really enjoyed the book but that did bug me
Loved this book. It was unlike anything I’ve ever read before. In someways that made it less “comfortable.” But I really really enjoyed the different narratives and how they eventually tied together. Very well written.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Interesting read.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I loved this. It was very much About Issues, but it was also highly readable and extremely personal (in relation to the characters themselves), and the poet-author’s voice sang just the right amount through the unconventional prose structure. I appreciated not only how wide ranging the topics/experiences/personalities were but also how critical the author/characters were of their own ideas. I was also surprisingly unbothered by how much of the narration was telling rather than showing (although, as I wrote in an earlier update, I felt like the style sometimes didn’t distinguish the characters’ voices as much as it could have).
A+ for introducing me to the word “rumbustious” and for sentences like this and this:
“and who knew that rice flour could be used to make bread, that bread could be stuffed with olives, that olives could be stuffed with bits of dried tomatoes, that baked tomatoes could be stuffed with cheese and that cheese could be made with bits of apricot and almonds, and almonds used to make milk”
“she and the reading group had a big argument, no, it wasn’t no argument, it was a *debate,* the other day, about whether a poem was good because they related to it, or whether it was good in and of itself // Bernadette said it was up to the literature specialists to decide what was good, they only knew whether they liked something or not”
A+ for introducing me to the word “rumbustious” and for sentences like this and this:
“and who knew that rice flour could be used to make bread, that bread could be stuffed with olives, that olives could be stuffed with bits of dried tomatoes, that baked tomatoes could be stuffed with cheese and that cheese could be made with bits of apricot and almonds, and almonds used to make milk”
“she and the reading group had a big argument, no, it wasn’t no argument, it was a *debate,* the other day, about whether a poem was good because they related to it, or whether it was good in and of itself // Bernadette said it was up to the literature specialists to decide what was good, they only knew whether they liked something or not”
I wasn’t crazy about the lack of overarching plot, but I did like several of the stories and trying to guess how they bisected.