Katie
This is really, really funny, and for that I will forgive almost every other sin. It jumps around a little, and sometimes it's hard to tell who is speaking (or maybe I'm just reading too fast). There are also some gory details I'm doing my best to skip. Overall, I'm really enjoying it.
This was a great book with lots for anyone who's been raised in any kind of strict religious upbringing, Jewish or not, to feel seen by. Plus, it was very funny.
I was hoping this would be heavy on social commentary/ something more than romance. But it was really just a romance with content moderation as the backdrop. Definitely a fun romance with great banter but in the end just a romance. Even the company intrigue was pretty mild.
This book has some serious issues. If you e read any psychology or diet stuff before, there won't be all that much new in here. The writing is infantalizing,including one part where it says you might weigh more because it's (in quotes) “that time of the month.” Was this written by 5th grade boys?? Also, the editing is sloppy. My favorite sentence was “A grape weighs more than a grape.” All that said, there were some.interesting things to think about and I did learn something. It was just painful finding the nuggets in the drivel.
Wow. Damn. This book. I am so angry at our country. Why do we spend more money to tear families apart than it would take to support them and keep them together. Are we really just so blind as to what it means to separate children and parents? Are we unable to understand that this means the same thing to others as it would mean to us? Chanel asks a woman in the court system how hard it is for her to leave her dog for a night, and asks her to translate that to how hard it must be to have children taken away. This basic human understanding is missing from our policies and institutions, and that lack is evil, and makes our policies and institutions evil.
Eh. Some of this was funny, but it was sort of like eating a marshmallow. Sweet, easy on the way down, and nothing gained from it.
I'm not really sure what to say about this book, so I'm not giving it a rating. I don't think I understood it all that well, and I certainly read it too quickly.
As everyone says throughout, this really was a hell of a book. It made my brain hurt. But in a good way, I think. I'm a very logical person, and, at least on the surface, this was not a logical book. But it sure made a lot of sense.
I liked this much more than I expected to. It was a great spin on the post-apocolyptic novel, and really moving.
Some of this was stuff you've heard a million times, but there were a lot of new ideas to me, too. I'm ready for her communist world now!
I'm a sucker for the sad old person makes friends with quirky tiny kid genre, and this had that and so much more. Tons of fun.
DNF. So much of the information was not new to me that it didn't seem worth the time to read the rest.
I love Kelly Link and these were so weird and wonderful. I had a hard time making the full connection to the fairy tales she based them on, but that didn't diminish my enjoyment.
DNF. I got a little way in and then it was requested by another library patron. I didn't know how urgent their need was, so I returned it. :) Would like to continue at some point.
I wouldn't necessarily call this “wickedly funny” but there were definitely hilarious parts, and moving parts, too. It was a fun read. I love stories with big families and this fit the bill.