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sarah_richmond 's review for:
Be Frank With Me
by Julia Claiborne Johnson
I am definitely in the minority - Be Frank With Me was a little boring.
There wasn't enough plot to keep the momentum going past the first 30 pages, and while I appreciate some whimsy, this had too much folly without anything deeper in it to anchor it down. Frank is definitely autistic, or at least on the spectrum somewhere, and the way the adults around him view his behaviour as eccentric rather than getting him appropriate help, really irked me. I see too much of that in real life as a teacher to be able to switch off and not let it drive me crazy in fiction.
The writing was pretty good though, and I feel like it translated well into audio form - the narrator did a sparkling job- but was let down by the plot. Maybe I just need to hold the physical words in my hands in order to really get it? No time for that though, onwards and upwards. Recommended for anyone who needs a palate cleanser between heavy reads.
There wasn't enough plot to keep the momentum going past the first 30 pages, and while I appreciate some whimsy, this had too much folly without anything deeper in it to anchor it down. Frank is definitely autistic, or at least on the spectrum somewhere, and the way the adults around him view his behaviour as eccentric rather than getting him appropriate help, really irked me. I see too much of that in real life as a teacher to be able to switch off and not let it drive me crazy in fiction.
The writing was pretty good though, and I feel like it translated well into audio form - the narrator did a sparkling job- but was let down by the plot. Maybe I just need to hold the physical words in my hands in order to really get it? No time for that though, onwards and upwards. Recommended for anyone who needs a palate cleanser between heavy reads.