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Mary Beth
is on page 101 of 240
Not promising so far. I think the first rule of writing a story about a character struggling with a specific issue, such as synesthesia, is that the author have personal experience with it. That’s not the case here. It appears the author had a research group? sounding board? comprised of individuals who experience synesthesia, but that’s not the same.
— Dec 20, 2022 11:08AM
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Mary Beth
is on page 186 of 240
Ok, this is a YA book set in rural America and written around the year 2000. I get it. But I *still* seriously doubt a middle schooler could just bluff their way into acupuncture appointments. “You tell your mom to tell the acupuncturist my mom says it’s fine and I’ll pay with odd job cash!” “Oh! Ok!!” And it works. This whole section has been very weird.
— Dec 20, 2022 09:10PM
