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A review by glindaaa
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0
Okay, so I don't know where to start with how to describe how I feel. The starting of this book and the meeting at the beginning between Miah and Ellie is a romance I would read a thousand pages on and be okay with. I don't like to admit it but I really like love stories and even if they are sappy. You don't hear me complaining.
I think everyone should read this, only to understand how it works, society. It might be written 20 years ago but that doesn't mean it changed. Maybe a little and maybe a lot, I don't know. It surely, in the end, made my heart stop. I don't want to think it is still like that but I am not blind.
The writing style was capturing, and this was my first book on the e-reader which is a great thing to do. It makes it very easy to read and it was highly enjoyable. I read this book thanks to the suggestion of Life's Library by John Green and can't wait to discuss it with the Cham Fam and to see the books
from the future. Which I will read on the E-reader :)
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After the discussion with the Cham Fam, I realized how much Marion annoys me, the fact that you as a parent are too good to call someone by a nickname even if she asks all the time and yet you are annoyed by her calling your first name. So you know the feeling? What also
The start of the book, the poem or what you call it was very beautiful, at the end it was even more beautiful and there were many things I missed when I have more time, I wouldn't mind to reread it again very soon to see perhaps more, only 181 pages is easy. But at the moment I have 4 books from the library and another 2 I need to read for an essay.
I think everyone should read this, only to understand how it works, society. It might be written 20 years ago but that doesn't mean it changed. Maybe a little and maybe a lot, I don't know. It surely, in the end, made my heart stop. I don't want to think it is still like that but I am not blind.
The writing style was capturing, and this was my first book on the e-reader which is a great thing to do. It makes it very easy to read and it was highly enjoyable. I read this book thanks to the suggestion of Life's Library by John Green and can't wait to discuss it with the Cham Fam and to see the books
from the future. Which I will read on the E-reader :)
~~
After the discussion with the Cham Fam, I realized how much Marion annoys me, the fact that you as a parent are too good to call someone by a nickname even if she asks all the time and yet you are annoyed by her calling your first name. So you know the feeling? What also
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surprised me is how Anne reacts. You are a lesbian, you know hardship about judgmental suggestions because of your own feelings and yet you can be racist to something that might not be completely the same but that can have hardship only because of another skin colour. I expected that she would know, would understand because I understand she is careful but it is also very narrow-minded. It was really disappointing, which I understand why Ellie feels it this way.The start of the book, the poem or what you call it was very beautiful, at the end it was even more beautiful and there were many things I missed when I have more time, I wouldn't mind to reread it again very soon to see perhaps more, only 181 pages is easy. But at the moment I have 4 books from the library and another 2 I need to read for an essay.