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3.53 AVERAGE
As someone who has had a parent die from cancer and currently has the other parent dying from an illness (and possibly be soon diagnosed with cancer) this book hit me so hard.
I was only 5 when my father died from cancer and you wouldn’t think I have regrets because I was so young but I do. I wish I talked to him (I’m mute) instead of just clinging to him and hugging him, he tried to get me to sing on the karaoke machine with my sister but I refused but that didn’t stop him from trying everyday!
It’s crazy how I would still have my dad today if doctors did their jobs. They diagnosed my dad with skin cancer and said they would cut his toe off, the delayed it and delayed it and even told my dad it was getting worse and they would cut it off soon but they still delayed him and wouldn’t tell him why. They told him to deal with it and be patient. Next thing they told him is that he had a couple months to live because his toe didn’t come off. They had no excuse to why they just didn’t cut it off, they were rude doctors who didn’t even feel sorry that he died.
Now my mother, she has MS and is in bed 24/7. She’s currently in hospital with broken bones and internal bleeding. She’s getting checked for breast cancer and it’s most likely she has it. I’m her full time carer and it’s horrible to see a parent dying right in front of you.
She has maybe a couple years left and then she will join my dad in heaven.
This book hit me too hard and emotionally wrecked me.
I was only 5 when my father died from cancer and you wouldn’t think I have regrets because I was so young but I do. I wish I talked to him (I’m mute) instead of just clinging to him and hugging him, he tried to get me to sing on the karaoke machine with my sister but I refused but that didn’t stop him from trying everyday!
It’s crazy how I would still have my dad today if doctors did their jobs. They diagnosed my dad with skin cancer and said they would cut his toe off, the delayed it and delayed it and even told my dad it was getting worse and they would cut it off soon but they still delayed him and wouldn’t tell him why. They told him to deal with it and be patient. Next thing they told him is that he had a couple months to live because his toe didn’t come off. They had no excuse to why they just didn’t cut it off, they were rude doctors who didn’t even feel sorry that he died.
Now my mother, she has MS and is in bed 24/7. She’s currently in hospital with broken bones and internal bleeding. She’s getting checked for breast cancer and it’s most likely she has it. I’m her full time carer and it’s horrible to see a parent dying right in front of you.
She has maybe a couple years left and then she will join my dad in heaven.
This book hit me too hard and emotionally wrecked me.
sad
fast-paced
I know some of my 7th graders will love this book and the way it is written.
Cute book . I liked how the writer portrayed the mother-daughter relationship . I liked the post-it concept of the book , it depicated the lack of communication in our society today .
What I didn't like is : The mom is in ob-gyn , how in the world could she not know enough about breast cancer or how she doesn't have a cell phone . I think this is an absurdity . Also , I didn't like how at times the characters felt unreal , 2 dimensional and the relationship evolution was just for the book to end in a good note .
What I didn't like is : The mom is in ob-gyn , how in the world could she not know enough about breast cancer or how she doesn't have a cell phone . I think this is an absurdity . Also , I didn't like how at times the characters felt unreal , 2 dimensional and the relationship evolution was just for the book to end in a good note .
This was was okay, but nothing special. Really good novels can be written through notes - for instance, Jaclyn Moriarty's teen novels - but this wasn't one of them. It's probably good for a quick read if you pick it up in a charity shop and need something to read on the train or in your lunch break. But it went far too fast, and the characters seemed very 2D, which made the conclusion not mean as much as it probably should have. I think if the characters had been given space to develop more this book would have been better, but developing characters in a novel written in notes is a difficult skill to master. 6/10
That blurb is longer than the actual book.
At first I was sort of confused. Were the mother-daughter actually talking over the notes only? Do they never meet? Like ever?
I'm sorry but I didn't feel the emotion in the end, because I couldn't connect to them at all. How can you when all you see are glimpses of their day-to-day life in short sticky notes?
Still unique though.
At first I was sort of confused. Were the mother-daughter actually talking over the notes only? Do they never meet? Like ever?
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But later it was revealed that they do indeed meet sometimes.I'm sorry but I didn't feel the emotion in the end, because I couldn't connect to them at all. How can you when all you see are glimpses of their day-to-day life in short sticky notes?
Still unique though.
