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Okaaaay. No, it's not okay! It's insane and depression-inducing. And it totally wasn't 'it' for me. I wasn't in the mood for being any further depressed, thank you very much not! But, well, I got in for this ride and I can't blame anyone (other than my roving eyes & unstructured reading habits) for me reading it.
And they say Dostoyevsky's miserable! Frankly, this isn't a far cry from him concerning inducing depression!
Basically, it's the great-grandmother of The Glass Castle but without all the ...more
And they say Dostoyevsky's miserable! Frankly, this isn't a far cry from him concerning inducing depression!
Basically, it's the great-grandmother of The Glass Castle but without all the ...more

A coming-of-age novel not too much unlike Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, or Little Women. It's about a little girl and her humble, yet proud little family growing up and finding wonder and beauty in the poor slums of Brooklyn.
I would never have heard of it if it hadn't been for Goodreads.
While this is can be read and enjoyed by anyone who likes a heart-warming novel, I think I might have liked it more if I had read it in my early teens or something. I found the writing styl ...more
I would never have heard of it if it hadn't been for Goodreads.
While this is can be read and enjoyed by anyone who likes a heart-warming novel, I think I might have liked it more if I had read it in my early teens or something. I found the writing styl ...more

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