kerriboland 's review for:

Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir by Tomson Highway

3.25

adventurous funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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Oh, I wanted to give this more stars.  There's so much in here that's better than 3 stars.  But many of these stories, are told the way my dad tells stories... "do you remember that girl you played soccer with?  She lived around the corner from us for 3 and a half months.  Her dad was a good golfer and made beer in his basement and we went over for dinner once and their kitchen was blue and she had 4 siblings and their names were...... and their mom was, and she...."

I understand this may be the way stories are told in the north.  Names are important.  Nicknames are important.  Places are important, and specific directions are important.  I just can't read a thousand of them and stay interested in the text.

This may have been a better audiobook.  And the first 50 pages were amazing.  Also, I wanted more about Rene as an adult!  Are there going to be follow-up books?  If there are, I don't know that I'll read them, even if I want to...

That said, I'll never think of macaroni the same way again.