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Dec 25, 2013
Astrid Lim
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A hilarious read, perfect to end 2013 :) So many funny moments, twists, and crazy things along this book. I love the heroine, fantastic Bee, the daughter of Bernadette. This book shows us that being different is totally okay, and sometimes it's good to just release your creative energy, otherwise you're going literally crazy.
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Highly annoying, but funny.
When I first started reading this book, I was also reading a collection of essays by a woman with schizoaffective disorder that was a serious look at mental illness. It was weird to go back and forth between these two books. Where'd You Go, Bernadette is supposed to be funny, but it was just really hard for me to transition to this tone and see Bernadette as simply an "eccentric" character while also reading such a stark account from another author. It was a weird and unsettling juxtaposition to
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The author has a beautiful style of writing. There were times when it got slow but I'm glad I finished it. May there always be a little Bernadette in all of us.
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I don’t even know if this is 2 stars or 2.5 stars or 3. The beginning was hard rowing, the middle was better, and the end was a letdown. The whole book felt like way too much effort. But there were parts I enjoyed hence the 2.5 stars. Lol
Jan 22, 2015
hannah
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Jan 16, 2022
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