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The Borrower
by Rebecca Makkai
Struggling with how to rate this, and even if I liked it or didn't like it. Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't.
Likes:
**All the talk of children's literature!!! mmm.
**Some of the clever parallels to classic kids' books, such as "If You Give a Librarian a Closet", and the "Where's Ian" one had me giggling. "Nooo, that's just an evangelical windbag!"
**It was engrossing and kept me wondering how they were going to get out of this mess.
Dislikes:
**Main character Lucy. Ugh! Sooo I'm pretty sure she's crazy. A kid wants to run away and you just drive off across the country with him? I don't care if you don't agree with how he's being raised. You are a grown woman, and he is 10, and his parents don't know where he is or even if he's alive. FOR TEN DAYS.
**Swearing, of course.
**Derision of Christianity. I agree that they were wrong in the way they were raising their maybe-homosexual son... but the entire faith shouldn't be put down for one family/sect's choices.
Likes:
**All the talk of children's literature!!! mmm.
**Some of the clever parallels to classic kids' books, such as "If You Give a Librarian a Closet", and the "Where's Ian" one had me giggling. "Nooo, that's just an evangelical windbag!"
**It was engrossing and kept me wondering how they were going to get out of this mess.
Dislikes:
**Main character Lucy. Ugh! Sooo I'm pretty sure she's crazy. A kid wants to run away and you just drive off across the country with him? I don't care if you don't agree with how he's being raised. You are a grown woman, and he is 10, and his parents don't know where he is or even if he's alive. FOR TEN DAYS.
**Swearing, of course.
**Derision of Christianity. I agree that they were wrong in the way they were raising their maybe-homosexual son... but the entire faith shouldn't be put down for one family/sect's choices.