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Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Start date: February 1, 2023

Finish date: February 28, 2023

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Oct 14, 2022 Lindsey Gandhi rated it liked it

Shelves: rw-bookclub, 2022-ng-reading-challenge

I was in between a 2 and 3 star rating. I rounded up because it’s Celeste Ng, and I felt a connection with Bird.

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Feb 20, 2024 Laurel Bradshaw rated it liked it

Shelves: color-rating-pink, dystopias, librarians, chinese-americans, new-york-city

3.5 pink stars

This had some nice things going for it. The overall concept. The importance of art and storytelling in difficult times. The exploration of what makes a good parent. The characters of Bird and Sadie. Everyone else was rather underdeveloped. In fact, maybe underdeveloped is my overall description of this book. I loved the idea of heroic underground librarians, but again - underdeveloped. Everything they did was very passive. The idea of PACT was rather chilling, but whatever led up t ...more

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Nov 30, 2022 Sarah rated it it was ok

I’m failing to comprehend all the five star reviews on this one. It felt ike a regurgitated version of 1984 or any other dystopian fiction where the government controls the people. There was nothing unique or interesting here. The story was slow, oh so painful slow. Sixty some pages in and we’re still trying to figure out what a picture of a bunch of cats the main character received on page 2 is all about. And what’s with the lack of quotations around dialogue? Drove me nuts. Couple that with a ...more

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