Thought I‘d do a #nonfiction2021 bingo card update. Last year I got no bingos and this year I already have one and may end up with two or three! @Riveted_Reader_Melissa are you doing another in 2022?
Everyone is napping, which means it‘s quiet and I can read. Well, almost quiet. I‘m being serenaded by the gentle snores of the sleeping.
so-soHernandez just wasn‘t that interesting to me. Her life and her parents just weren‘t all the unique and if they are then she didn‘t write it in a way the conveys that.
It was a quick listen. ⭐️⭐️1/2
This happened almost the exact same way for me around the same time it happened to the author. She says she was 15 and I remember it was my confirmation year so I was 16. I was left jaded and disillusioned for years. 💔
To read or not to read (and instead grade quizzes)? That is the question of this #teacheroflitsy on her February break.
panDidn‘t work for me. If I didn‘t have to read it for book club, I‘d have bailed. It‘s nonlinear, which is frustrating if there‘s no common thread binding chapters together. I felt Hernández spent a lot of time on small details and virtually none on larger themes. It seemed her understanding of race—specifically black Americans—lacked nuance. I did like the way she used Spanish. I‘d read her poetry if she has some as her writing is very lyrical.
pickI found this book very readable despite my aversion to non-linear stories; I have no wish to own it or re-read it. She told her story many parts of it resonated with my life or my friends' lives.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir | 
