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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Start date: May 1, 2018

Finish date: May 29, 2018

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Jul 06, 2018 Cam rated it really liked it

This is my second time reading this book ..... this time I’m reading it for our neighborhood book club. I think I enjoyed it my second time around more.

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Jun 17, 2018 Donna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: n-y-times-best-seller, friendship, family-life, fiction, adult-chic-lit, adult-fiction

I had to wait a L-O-N-G time to get my hands on this book from the library. Finally, I read it and it is awesome!! I loved every single page.

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Jul 27, 2018 Tosha rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This story is not for you if you don’t like slow moving stories that dive into character analysis. I found it difficult to not read when the story starts with little fires burning everywhere in the Richardson household. Izzy the youngest of the Richardson children being blamed for it all. As the story opened up to describe & introduce the Richardson children & Mrs. Richardson herself I initially thought the story to be “typical”. Yet as the story goes back to what sparked (pun intended) the fire ...more

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Dec 01, 2017 Stuart rated it did not like it

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Feb 28, 2018 Randy A. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I at first LOVED this book. Ultimately, I'm giving it a 3.5, rounding up to 4. It was insanely readable (hard to put down - to a sleep deprivation fault) - but I thought it had a number of flaws to plot and character development. I'll also give what is probably an unpopular opinion -- The book would have been better with fewer "little fires." I would have liked to see the characters and conflicts without the Mirabelle plot - it was the least well developed and had the most believability problems ...more

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Jul 31, 2018 Tippy rated it really liked it

Shelves: drama, fables, 2018, diversity-in-all-forms-group

This was a solid story. But mostly I appreciated the overall tone of the book. Quiet but determined. It's hard to describe. It was this feeling that made the book 4 stars instead of 3. ...more

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