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It started to lag a little and I was going to give it four stars, but I really liked it towards the end when he went on the meditation retreat for 3 days, talked about MSF pulling out (and why), heroin use and treatment.
I related to some of Delisle's experiences as I visited Thailand around 2013 and I saw some similar cultural quirks such as locals bundling up when it got below like 75 degrees, motorbikes, monks, interesting shops, haggling and favorable exchange rates.
More a diary entry rather than a true review.
Today Living Classroom had our first graders made vegetable soup from the garden vegetables that they grew themselves. It went really well.
Before we harvested they read this book. The kids seemed to like it and I enjoyed that they caught on to the repetition and the concept.
I'm not a fan of the art style on this one.
3.5
For most of the story I loved Barbra/Sophie, and then there were moments when that I felt she was flat or too ‘Sue'.
But I loved the time period, the look of London/England at that moment and Hornby's tying together of that collection of characters, even if it got muddled sometimes.
It was marvelous to have Michelle Obama's voice in my sun-filled kitchen or in my living room after dark. After listening to both her book and Barrack's Promised Land (as well as David Litt's book about being part of his team) I feel like I know the time period much better and benefited from listening to them closely together. There's not a lot of overlap as all three books are very different but the sense of setting/context felt more complete.
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