Ruby in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Apr 30, 2014 Sharlene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: north-america, for-review, 2014

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It is several days later and I’m still picking up the pieces and putting my reading self back together.

Because reading Ruby just ripped it all apart.

To call it a difficult read is putting it lightly.

Devastating perhaps. The kind of read where the story swallows you up whole and spits you out and then you’re left reeling from all the hurt and pain and the knowledge that you can’t do anything about it. Except to read on. And hope.

But whe ...more

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May 01, 2017 Jane rated it it was amazing

Shelves: recentfiction, graphic-novel

The language in this book was amazing, and it captured a southern culture that is mostly unfamiliar to me. After reading The Tsar of Love and Techno, I wasn't ready for so much violence. Ruby and Ephraim's lives were pretty awful. Just couldn't endure it, no matter how rich and gorgeous the language was. I checked graphic not because there were pictures, but because it was "too graphic" for me. ...more

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Mar 03, 2015 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, 2015

I do subscribe to O, Oprah's magazine, and I read her article about this book, and I thought, huh, that sounds like a book I want to read, and I read it, and it was fantastic! Good book! You all should read it too!

What you shouldn't do is buy Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition like I did because then you'll get Oprah's underlines every I kid you not 10 pages or so and those underlines will get on your last nerve and take you out of the story every time because they're thicker than the other ...more

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