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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Twas average. Didn’t suck me in at all but the characters did have my jaw dropping quite a bit. Not really sure if it was in a good way tho
Probably more of a 3.5 just because I gave All Adults Here 4 stars and liked it better. This one was still very good but I found myself less interested in the chapters focusing on certain characters (Andrew, Ruby) and in general it wasn't as funny as All Adults Here. I'm finding also that I don't love books about bands, which is weird and I don't understand but there it is. I did like how this tackled the complexity of relationships, both new and long-standing. Also notable is how the adult characters were just as lost and clueless as the teenagers.
This book struck a chord with me as it explores the strange passage of time and how you can still feel like you are in college, but need to acknowledge the reality when your children are that age. Getting older raises all sorts of existential crises for the adults, and the drama of being a teenager for the kids, and it is interesting to see how similar, yet how very different the generations are.
I loved this. It would be the perfect book for a day of travel. It could have been just a soap opera-ish mashup of middle-aged people who have lost their way (and find out what really happened when they were in college), but it ends up going deeper than that, and the writing is stellar. The one major character who is an adult male is a bit of a caricature, but other than that, I can’t think of much to complain about. I’m reading some of the surprisingly scathing one- and two-star reviews and thinking, hmmmm, maybe you have to be older to feel what Straub is doing here, even though she’s almost twenty years younger than me. I don’t know. It worked for me.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
imagine my surprise after i check this out from the library, excited to start a new book, get back home, start chapter 1 and realize i already read this years ago? and that i only have some vague recollection of it? RIP my memory i guess but i’m not invested enough to re-read
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes