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4.5 Stars. Gorgeous and heartbreaking and hopeful.
What a gem of a book. I loved it.
This was quite disappointing - oversentimental, I felt, in its fragmented musings, and playing largely on the ethnic appeal factor. The latter is a potentially huge can of worms for many writers of non-dominant races/ ethnicities/ nationalities, and could probably form the topic of an entire thesis (as it probably has)!
from NPR poll of best Young Adult fiction ...
I THOUGHT I had read this already, but reading the blurb, maybe not ... so I should check it out.
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This did not speak to me. The overly-simple writing style combined with the lack of quotation marks left it all feeling very flat.
Passages like this (and I do feel this snippet is quite representative of the whole):
I THOUGHT I had read this already, but reading the blurb, maybe not ... so I should check it out.
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This did not speak to me. The overly-simple writing style combined with the lack of quotation marks left it all feeling very flat.
Passages like this (and I do feel this snippet is quite representative of the whole):
The Eskimos got thirty different names for snow, I say. I read it in a book....more
I got a cousin, Rachel says. She got three different names.
I finally read this after hearing about it in just about every Lit class in college due to the fact that Cisneros graduated from LUC. I was suprised at how much I liked it. It feels like real memories and how we have loose associations between childhood experiences.
My ninth grade English teacher read this book to our class and I have never forgotten it. I don't know if it was the book itself, or the way she read it to us, but it made a huge impact on me at the time. I am hoping to read it again soon.
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Jen
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