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It’s Swedish Forrest Gump but with more crime and murder.

Listening to the version read by the author. It’s really good, but the subject matter maybe more heavy than I can read right now.

This was just a lot of syrupy sweetness with low stakes conflicts and a good set up for book 2 in the series. We briefly touch on class and commerce, the power of money/poverty, slimey men, and familial love.

Stopping at Part 1 Ch 12 because her brothers cruelty is getting to be a bit too much

The first story gets a bit religious, but was sweet.

When the student is ready the teacher appears! It is definitely very much in plain English, and very much appreciated by me.

This is a modern woman in older times, and a lot of telling. We will see how far I get into this.

This may be too dark for me right now. Dystopian literature in a pandemic seems risky, although the story is very engaging. I am excited to be getting better at my Nigerian geography and foods after the Akata series too!

Starting this again 2 years later as the written book.

This is not an easy book to read. Doyle is raw, honest, and has very clearly been through a lot of pain. Parts of her story hit a little too close to home, and parts of her story are entirely outside of my realm of understanding.

skimmed the last 120 pages last night and will sit down to read them tonight. I’m anxious to go back and reread the ending properly, and then potentially flip through again bc I think the nested stories and pull quotes will yield even more plot lines. I adore how the book itself is like Le Cirque des Rêves!

It’s really hard to understand what is happening since there is such a strong surrealist, magical realism element happening. I have not read a book like that in a while, so it’s a conscious effort to let the story unfold without rushing it and skimming ahead! The visuals and descriptions are amazing.

By withholding judgement on her parents' parenting or mental states, Walls forces us to do the same. Honestly, I feel like it's the only way I'm making it through the book!

It’s dryly funny, but also incredibly sad. I hope it gets funnier?

Clean slate! Time to return to the library because someone else wants it. I think I need to just buy it now, to both finish and for referential purposes.

I totally understand the mail protagonists feelings that Texas is hot like hell, he's not too far from Galveston so perhaps old Houston area, and I can affirm that it is hot as Hades.

Someone else has this on hold, but I will warn you that it is rather emotionally charged. It'll be good to come back to it, especially as it's getting into papers and miscellaneous other more sentimental items.

Grammar again, grammar again!

There was so much introductory stuff...but listening to Covey meta-analyze self-improvement literature in the past 200 and divide it between the earlier Character ethic vs the more recent Personality ethic has been incredibly enlightening. I've always sensed that you need to dig deeper to really affect change, and I can sense that Covey is setting me up for tutorials on that.