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Asha
is 68% done
Another note that stands out in this is how hard it is to estimate the narrator’s age. Like is it happening over years? sometimes she seems like she’s 9 or 10 but other details (like being old enough to have her first job) discounts that. But that is what being a preteen and an early teenage feels like. You’re a little kid. You’re the oldest person in the world. You don’t know anything. You know everything
— 14 hours, 51 min ago
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Asha
is 85% done
There are so many notes in this book that are so familiar. The shoes anxiety because it’s the pair you’ve got by they’re not nice even if your new clothes are. The clubhouse in the back of an abandoned car. The bit with “take your kool-aid into the other room” and the house with the plastic couch covers. The linoleum floor of the church basement with all the cousins. I can see my childhood in it all.
— 13 hours, 53 min ago
Asha
is 72% done
Reading this on the heels of Catcher has my mind turning. This dreamy choppy entry into teenager hood vs Holden’s mental breakdown exit from teenager hood. Narrators who see everything but only look at it from the edges and the truth sort of slips in around the poetic phrasing or rambling digressions. I haven’t fully worked my opinions on it out.
— 14 hours, 29 min ago
Asha
is 57% done
This author is so good at a turn of phrase. Just these single unremarkable sentences that paint an entire picture of the moment and the dominos out from the moment. “Two boys were getting hollered at. One for something he did and another for something he didn’t” + “I always cry when nuns yell even when they don’t yell” and like yeah I know what your school is like.
— 15 hours, 38 min ago
Asha
is 33% done
It’s a collection of nostalgic snapshots of childhood and it is landing so well like heartstrings and what not over siblings and bikes and that sort of half-wild age when you’re old enough to be let out alone and young enough to still cuddle up with your mom in bed.
— Oct 15, 2026 09:43AM
Asha
is 28% done
My version has an extremely long prologue about the author so I’m only on chapter 3 here and I am so charmed. I love the short simple but poetic sentences. I like this kid and her secret self already.
— Oct 15, 2026 09:21AM