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Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

Start date: December 12, 2015

Finish date: December 31, 2015

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Jan 20, 2018 Kirsten rated it really liked it

I just saw the other day where this book is being turned into a film. I can totally see how this could be a great film.

This book is incredibly intense. Issues of grief, racism, unrequited love, infidelity, sibling rivalry, depression, stress, etc. So many things. All encompassed in one multiracial family. All set in the days of the Carter Administration.

A wonderful book. Not to be read lightly.

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Mar 31, 2021 Avigail rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: physical-book, 2021

I have trouble with books when I don't connect with the characters, and unfortunately, I didn't like any of them. I can understand that during the 70s, the family relationships between parents and children is different from today's perspective. While reading the book, I felt that there were so many times that a conversation between parents, between siblings, between parents and children would have other consequences.
I felt sorry for little Hannah because she was invisible from all of her family. ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 Jessica rated it liked it

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Aug 24, 2015 Karen D rated it it was amazing

Shelves: family, 5-stars, favorite, coming-of-age, cried-ugly-tears, cultural

What an amazing book. From the very first sentence, "Lydia is dead", it is completely captivating, engrossing, and moving. We see how Lydia's family reacts to her death, each struggling in a different way. And we also see in flashbacks how each character got to that position, including Lydia herself. But we also see the struggles Lydia's parents faced, her father dealing with race issues and her mother dealing with gender discrimination, and how those dynamics shaped their expectations of themse ...more

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Feb 03, 2017 Jen Ifer's Inklings rated it liked it

Shelves: audio-books, library, popsugar-2017-reading-challenge, read-in-2017

I'm really wavering on my rating for this book. I'm going to say that it probably more of a 3.5 star book for me. The story was good. The characters were okay/good. I really had issues with the voice the book was written in. It seemed to be told in a narration, but sometimes felt like it switched to first person and back in the same paragraph. ...more

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May 05, 2019 Stephanie Tuell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Enjoyable

A quick enjoyable read that reminds you what it must have been like to grow up back when interracial relationships where still frowned upon and children still wanted to please their parents.

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