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A review by jennifermreads
Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy
3.0
Real rating of 3.5
Darren has had some major bombs dropped on him: his parents are getting divorced, his brother left for college, his best friend has moved. And now, he suspects another bomb is coming because his mom has announced that his dad is stopping by before school to discuss “something important.”
Why pick-up this book? Well, to me the book blurb didn’t sound all that unique … until I read that it was told in lists. An entire story told in lists? Color me there!
Initially, it was uncomfortable. I had to get used to, well, the really long titles to the lists, the lists themselves, and the sometimes rambling, incomplete sentences that had me thinking I was knocking around inside Darren’s brain as he wrote the lists. See what I mean? That extremely long sentence? It is a result of reading 640 pages of lists that soooooo sounded like a teenage boy’s musings!
Lots of issues were covered within the pages of this novel but the enjoyment comes from just melting into Darren’s brain and enjoying the ride.
Darren has had some major bombs dropped on him: his parents are getting divorced, his brother left for college, his best friend has moved. And now, he suspects another bomb is coming because his mom has announced that his dad is stopping by before school to discuss “something important.”
Why pick-up this book? Well, to me the book blurb didn’t sound all that unique … until I read that it was told in lists. An entire story told in lists? Color me there!
Initially, it was uncomfortable. I had to get used to, well, the really long titles to the lists, the lists themselves, and the sometimes rambling, incomplete sentences that had me thinking I was knocking around inside Darren’s brain as he wrote the lists. See what I mean? That extremely long sentence? It is a result of reading 640 pages of lists that soooooo sounded like a teenage boy’s musings!
Lots of issues were covered within the pages of this novel but the enjoyment comes from just melting into Darren’s brain and enjoying the ride.