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The Summer I Learned to Fly
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It just felt so incredibly...preteen-end-all-be-all love. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy this one but every major decision our main character (Drew) made just made me want to roll my eyes.
Maybe it's because I'm more than a decade out of this but she seemed just so oblivious to everything that really mattered.
Case-and-point: Oh? There's a boy hanging around waiting for me to drop off the leftover cheese every day from the cheese shop? Huh. Weird. (absolutely no thoughts to his obvious homelessness and hunger).
Case-and-point: Oh? I have a pet rat? Let me confine that rat to a too-small cage in my backpack for 8 hours at a time because I want to keep him with me. (absolutely no thoughts from her OR her mother about animal cruelty.)
Case-and-point: (view spoiler)
Other than that, I did enjoy this one (mostly).
Audiobook comments
Extremely well-read. Very realistic tone and inflection.
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I was not boy crazy. Really, I wasn't. But I was lonely, I guess.Ohhh Nelly, I think I'm getting too old for these novels...
When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apartYuuuuuup. Definitely too old for this mess.
It just felt so incredibly...preteen-end-all-be-all love. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy this one but every major decision our main character (Drew) made just made me want to roll my eyes.
Maybe it's because I'm more than a decade out of this but she seemed just so oblivious to everything that really mattered.
Case-and-point: Oh? There's a boy hanging around waiting for me to drop off the leftover cheese every day from the cheese shop? Huh. Weird. (absolutely no thoughts to his obvious homelessness and hunger).
Case-and-point: Oh? I have a pet rat? Let me confine that rat to a too-small cage in my backpack for 8 hours at a time because I want to keep him with me. (absolutely no thoughts from her OR her mother about animal cruelty.)
Case-and-point: (view spoiler)
Other than that, I did enjoy this one (mostly).
Audiobook comments
Extremely well-read. Very realistic tone and inflection.
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May 08, 2018 01:48PM
LOL! Loved this!! =)
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Best review I've read all day :) I love your humor.
Avalon wrote: "Best review I've read all day :) I love your humor."Thank you :)
Thanks for the review, Miranda. I'll pass on this book. Because even though novels are fictitious, they still have to reflect the realities of our humanity (if, in fact, the characters are human!). So if the pet rat is abandoned (as opposed to being given to a friend or some other humane option), the pet will starve and die. And that makes the pet's owner beyond cruel--a character you could not root for.
Diane wrote: "Fair n honest review, Miranda! :)"Thank you!!
Julia wrote: "Thanks for the review, Miranda. I'll pass on this book. Because even though novels are fictitious, they still have to reflect the realities of our humanity (if, in fact, the characters are human!)...."Honestly, yes. It's meant to be some big happy/bittersweet growing up moment. But I couldn't look at it like that. It just so irresponsible and cruel.
Kirsten wrote: "hi"Hi :)
