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rochelles_reading_journal's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Grief, Cancer, Medical trauma, and Self harm
shantastic_reads's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Suicide, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Medical content
katewhite77's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
5.0
A Medative book on what it is to be a sister.
A story of language, translation, home, sickness and what it takes to be human sometimes.
This book takes place in 90s Oklahoma for the most part but by a quirk of fate. One sister ends up supporting Russia, and one Ukraine during the Lillehammer of 1994 which is especially poignant to read about at the moment
I would recommend this book especially to those who enjoyed Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.
A story of language, translation, home, sickness and what it takes to be human sometimes.
This book takes place in 90s Oklahoma for the most part but by a quirk of fate. One sister ends up supporting Russia, and one Ukraine during the Lillehammer of 1994 which is especially poignant to read about at the moment
I would recommend this book especially to those who enjoyed Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, and Suicide
readersreadingnook's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use, Self harm, Addiction, Mental illness, and Chronic illness
Minor: Medical content
abbie_'s review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
A beautifully written, unusually structured memoir told in the third person, of the translator Jennifer Croft. I’ve read a few of Croft’s translations and she is hugely talented, so I’m glad for Charco Press’s new Untranslated series for allowing Croft to tell her own story, as opposed to translating others’.
She explores her relationship with her chronically ill sister, the beginning of her love affair with languages and grammar, her brushes with trauma like suicide at far too young an age. The short chapters make it addictive, but there’s no less depth because of the shortness of the chapters.
Loved it!
She explores her relationship with her chronically ill sister, the beginning of her love affair with languages and grammar, her brushes with trauma like suicide at far too young an age. The short chapters make it addictive, but there’s no less depth because of the shortness of the chapters.
Loved it!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Chronic illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
Moderate: Sexual assault and Vomit
Minor: Gun violence
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