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Book 10 of 2024! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This read like a mix of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Thank you Becca's "Blind Date" Books! I got this one from one of your packages!

As a scientist I WANTED to love this book. The story itself is less about the infamous Patient H.M., instead, it is a narrative of those that influenced, as well as benefited from his history. The most interesting narrative threads are ones not explored enough in my opinion, and are left to the reader to discover in the last fifth of the novel. Well written, engrossing and fascinating: I do feel that the work has a slightly biased slant.

4⭐️ Such poignant & lyrical writing connecting three generations of men who knew one another only on a surface level. It‘s all about the nature of time, memory, consciousness, the perception of ourselves and others. It‘s actually quite difficult to describe. Worthy of a reread. It isn‘t 5 stars because I found some of the technical clock passages a bit too detailed.

Lots of lovely nature writing! 💚

The paragraph is in reference to the MC‘s father, a rural tinker, making his rounds in late fall.

Beautiful writing!

I was not prepared for how emotional this book was. I figured a middle grade story wouldn't have such intense topics, but I was wrong. It was a great story, one that I will probably read again.

Reading this in small chicks for my grad school assignment

Book 11

After seeing his mom get taken by ICE, a tween boy sets out to find his aunt's house in NYC. The misadventures are continuos, exaggerated, and cringey, as if she's trying to fill a predetermined page count. I'm not a fan of how children's literature expliciltly declares the characters' thoughts and emotions, robbing the reader the opportunity of conjecture. ⭐⭐⭐

This book was not for me. It is too slow and meanders into nothing.