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More like "All the BS We Cannot See" amirite? There's a severe glut of books with overly perceptive child narrators and it's gotta stop. Take this nugget:
"'But he died.'
'And I did not.'
This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear."
Way to psychoanalyze your great uncle Marie Laure! You're so smart. Or, gee, is that actually the author talking, packaging meaning so the reader can understand? Children perceive. Adults draw meaning.
So, there's that and there's this annoying jumping back an ...more
"'But he died.'
'And I did not.'
This, she realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear."
Way to psychoanalyze your great uncle Marie Laure! You're so smart. Or, gee, is that actually the author talking, packaging meaning so the reader can understand? Children perceive. Adults draw meaning.
So, there's that and there's this annoying jumping back an ...more
Dec 18, 2016
Chrysoula
marked it as to-read
Jun 04, 2017
Amy
marked it as every-book-barack-obama-has-recomme
Aug 18, 2017
Ania Baranski-Lungu
marked it as to-read
