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Ada

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I like to read mostly fantasy and YA fiction

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Texas, USA

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2026 Reading Goal

Read 10 books by . They're 5 books behind schedule.

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A Wonderlandiful World
The School for Good and Evil
The Last Ever After
A Crystal of Time
One True King
Rise of the School for Good and Evil
The School for Good and Evil: The Ever Never Handbook
A World Without Princes

Ada's Most Popular Reviews

My only nitpick is that Lisa refused to use quotations when a person was speaking (dialogue). I get that it's nonfiction and it might be her writing style, but because I didn't know where the dialogue stopped and the prose started, it had me reading run-on sentences that were not meant to be run-ons. Really frustrating, quotation marks have a grammatical function for a reason. The actual contents of the book are very eye-opening, and even insane, with it being true stories. You never know what someone's life is like behind closed doors.

I didn't really like the ending but after reading the Acknowledgements, it makes a bit more sense.

The book also has a content warning so that was thoughtful of the author.

It feels like a live reading of a doctor accepting death and finding meaning in the life he has before and after his cancer diagnosis, with the diagnosis answering that.