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A review by toloveisdestroy
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi by Jim Murphy
3.0
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't crying by the end of this book. Sorry, haha. I haven't read one of these novels since I was a wee little kid. I do not believe you could truly appreciate them until you are older as well.
As someone who once wrote avidly in a diary, I can confirm the way the little girl wrote in her diary is extremely accurate: Poor grammar & spelling, overly used punctuations, the endings and all. As someone who used to sign "JHR Out!" at the end of her diary entries thinking it made me appear more like a spy (or "The End" to make it appear as though it were a fairytale versus reality), I appreciated her saying "End. TAV" at the end of her diary entries.
I only wished the ending had included J.W. in a different sense, which I hope is not a spoiler to any who stumbles upon this review.
As someone who once wrote avidly in a diary, I can confirm the way the little girl wrote in her diary is extremely accurate: Poor grammar & spelling, overly used punctuations, the endings and all. As someone who used to sign "JHR Out!" at the end of her diary entries thinking it made me appear more like a spy (or "The End" to make it appear as though it were a fairytale versus reality), I appreciated her saying "End. TAV" at the end of her diary entries.
I only wished the ending had included J.W. in a different sense, which I hope is not a spoiler to any who stumbles upon this review.