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A review by iceangel32
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0
This book made me cry. It was so real. So sad. A story of a family struggling with a father that is suffering from the results of too many concussions from playing football. The reality of the time when it was not talked about and no one knew what to do or how to treat it. The book shows how concussion and CTE not only affects the person that has them but the whole family. It also showed the love the game, the reason the father got hit again and again. A very touching book, I am so glad I stumbled upon it.
Favorite Quote:
“Imaging loving something so much, you love
the smell of it?
It smells like leather and dirt and sweat and new snow.
I love football with all
my senses. Love the taste and feel
of air in my mouth running with the ball on a cold day. Love the smell
of the ball when I press it to my face
and the smell of the field right after it rains.
…
“When you love a thing, little man, my dad said,
you gotta love it with everything you got.
Till you can’t even tell where that thing you love begins
And where you end.”
Favorite Quote:
“Imaging loving something so much, you love
the smell of it?
It smells like leather and dirt and sweat and new snow.
I love football with all
my senses. Love the taste and feel
of air in my mouth running with the ball on a cold day. Love the smell
of the ball when I press it to my face
and the smell of the field right after it rains.
…
“When you love a thing, little man, my dad said,
you gotta love it with everything you got.
Till you can’t even tell where that thing you love begins
And where you end.”