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A review by curly_cat_lvr
The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson
4.0
A total random download from the library and it did not disappoint. Was the first heartwarming feel good book I’d read all year.
It’s a lovely story of friendship, loss, laughter, dreams, love, acceptance, family and the family you choose. Add in a lot of jokes, adventure, other wonderfully written characters and it has everything.
The characters were written so beautifully. I loved Norman from the start. He’s smart, tenacious, funny, sensitive and kind. But Leonard was a charm! Funny, tells it like it is, helpful, kind, heart on his sleeve kind of guy.
The story just hits all the right notes for a light read or listen.
My only complaint is with the audiobook. Every chapter where the narrator reads Sadie the mom where she trails off so quietly it’s nearly impossible to hear what she’s saying whether listening on a phone, Bluetooth speaker, ear buds or in a car. I know it’s supposed to be her mimicking thoughts trailing off but there HAD to be a better way to translate that to audio. I felt I lost parts of every chapter that did that. And when she reads as Norman in the last chapter she does it again and it was so frustrating. It would make me not listen to another audio book narrated by the same woman.
It’s a lovely story of friendship, loss, laughter, dreams, love, acceptance, family and the family you choose. Add in a lot of jokes, adventure, other wonderfully written characters and it has everything.
The characters were written so beautifully. I loved Norman from the start. He’s smart, tenacious, funny, sensitive and kind. But Leonard was a charm! Funny, tells it like it is, helpful, kind, heart on his sleeve kind of guy.
The story just hits all the right notes for a light read or listen.
My only complaint is with the audiobook. Every chapter where the narrator reads Sadie the mom where she trails off so quietly it’s nearly impossible to hear what she’s saying whether listening on a phone, Bluetooth speaker, ear buds or in a car. I know it’s supposed to be her mimicking thoughts trailing off but there HAD to be a better way to translate that to audio. I felt I lost parts of every chapter that did that. And when she reads as Norman in the last chapter she does it again and it was so frustrating. It would make me not listen to another audio book narrated by the same woman.