Becky Boer

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February 2020

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Lullabies for Little Criminals | Heather O’Neill

One sentence: A kid grows up with a heroin-addicted father and it goes exactly the way you’d expect. Three thoughts: I really want to know what ended up happening to Baby! Like, okay she got out of her bad situation, but you don’t just suddenly not become addicted to heroin. I realized multiple times while reading this book that I have no idea when it takes place. It felt very 70s to me, but I could be very wrong about that. I’m not sure that it ever actually said when it happened. I was  ...

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino

One sentence: Uhhh… I think I loved it but I’m not sure? Three thoughts: I love all the metacognition (if that’s what you’d call it). This book reminds me a LOT of S. So much that I wonder if this one influenced that one. Some of these chapters were dense AF and I flew through others. Rating Characters: 5/5. This book was based on a weird, interesting premise. It’s told in second person, so that the reader becomes one of the active characters in the book. Calvino pulls it off really  ...

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