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This book is worth your preorder.
I learned things about things that I didn’t even know I didn’t even know. And I think hearing it all from the perspective of Morgan Jerkins as she searches for the truth of her family makes it all the more riveting.
I learned things about things that I didn’t even know I didn’t even know. And I think hearing it all from the perspective of Morgan Jerkins as she searches for the truth of her family makes it all the more riveting.
I loved this book soooo much. I think it dealt with the fat experience in a super realistic and still empowering way while bathing Bea’s life in absolute fantasy.
I’m PRAYING the next book (please god let there be another book) focuses on Marin!
I’m PRAYING the next book (please god let there be another book) focuses on Marin!
If you want to murder rich, entitled, white, male privilege, this is the one for you.
**Did not finish**
I simply do not have a taste for grotesque literature. I wish I did but as a person predisposed to depression, I just can not spend hours of my life ruminating on a person who is circling the drain of her own undoing.
That being said, Lelani can turn the hell out of a phrase. She has a masterful grasp of language and would occasionally leave me breathless with her descriptions. That’s why I can’t give it a 1 or 2 star review. Because even though this book isn’t my taste, it doesn’t mean that it didn’t make me feel things.
I simply do not have a taste for grotesque literature. I wish I did but as a person predisposed to depression, I just can not spend hours of my life ruminating on a person who is circling the drain of her own undoing.
That being said, Lelani can turn the hell out of a phrase. She has a masterful grasp of language and would occasionally leave me breathless with her descriptions. That’s why I can’t give it a 1 or 2 star review. Because even though this book isn’t my taste, it doesn’t mean that it didn’t make me feel things.
I was enraptured by this book and I’m so glad that it was written. Our stories—even the ones that are so specific that we are sure no one could ever relate to them, have the capacity to change a life. Maybe even change the world.
I waited until I had finished this book to read reviews. I read a few harsh ones, here, that criticize Ms Klebold for the book she wrote. She emphasizes a lot on her own grief and also the way this major event caught her so off guard. To be very honest, I can’t imagine what else she could have at all been expected to write. I think she does an amazing job of searching for understanding without letting her son off the hook for what he did.
I waited until I had finished this book to read reviews. I read a few harsh ones, here, that criticize Ms Klebold for the book she wrote. She emphasizes a lot on her own grief and also the way this major event caught her so off guard. To be very honest, I can’t imagine what else she could have at all been expected to write. I think she does an amazing job of searching for understanding without letting her son off the hook for what he did.
Five stars for the way this book drew me in, Miller’s use of language and atmosphere and the way she tells the story of people.
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I just hated the way it ended. I loved Annie and I loved her love and commitment to Graham. I just also wanted her to... become whole. On her own. Separate from him. I thought we were getting there at the Thanksgiving dinner but towards the end, she still spoke of not being alive because he’s not alive. Also I would have loved for someone to have ripped Ian Pederson a new one for his comment about how he couldn’t sell a book on account of him being a white male. I suppose we get that in Annie’s rejection of him but still.
Spoilers:
I just hated the way it ended. I loved Annie and I loved her love and commitment to Graham. I just also wanted her to... become whole. On her own. Separate from him. I thought we were getting there at the Thanksgiving dinner but towards the end, she still spoke of not being alive because he’s not alive. Also I would have loved for someone to have ripped Ian Pederson a new one for his comment about how he couldn’t sell a book on account of him being a white male. I suppose we get that in Annie’s rejection of him but still.