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I started this book on our trip and then read two others while I put it aside. I'm being thrown off by dialogue not in quotation marks. Also, really? This is an 8/9 year old?? I don't see where the book is going. I'll try and pick it up again before it has to go back to the library...

This would be a good book club book. It was odd, kind of disconcerting. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had been reading it with others so we could talk about it.

So far very good.

This story is very, very strange

It's getting interesting

I like it so far. it's really sad.

A Magical family.

Mouth delusion causes young girl to end up in hospital.

A lot of talk about food. A young girl can taste her mother's feelings through the cake she bakes.

Books like this make me hate adult books.

Ich komme irgendwie nicht so richtig rein.

Totally enjoying this. Might be heightened by the fact that I've read it almost entirely while in paradise :) but the disappearance thing really has me not wanting to put it down!

Stalled out a little there. Pushing on.

This sure is an indie lit book.

I was all settled in to stay up way too late reading "just one more chapter" until all the chapters were gone. Then I hit the R word and I was right out of the story. I am unimpressed.

Switched books because I didn't make a lot of progress in Skyward.

I am seriously loving this book...

Certainly a unique story but just too strange for me.

Ready to be done with this strange book...

Interesting that a book about a girl who can taste the feelings of the person who made her food is moving far, far away from this. This is a nice palate cleanser from Oscar Wao.

Chapter 36

Chapter 31

In the middle of chapter 23.

The story itself is interesting, but the main character has still not really endeared herself to me.

Interesting concept and voice, but I think I need something lighter this week.

HUMMMMMM>>>>>>

Chapter 5

So far: this book is speaking of my acute ability to read people and their feelings.

Such a nice break from everything else.

Dang it, it's finished. Now what do I do today?? LOL Excellent, surpassing, emtional, thought-provoking book. I am in awe of the fact that such a young person wrote this. I am HOPING Ms. Bender is working on books from the perspecitves of each of the other main characters. Well done. Can't wait to pass it on to friends. xoxo