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Enough with nonsense word salad. Be gone! 😂

The title is the only good part of this book.

4/80

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So I was a little annoyed that this book was more about two people working at a newspaper than about children being sold out of desperation in the 1930s. But after a bit I became so immersed in the story that it didn't matter anymore.

3/80

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At first I was like, come on! a 12yr old city boy is tanning deer hide! But the mention of the Civil Defense put the whole Cold War, nuclear fear thing gave context to why Sam studied up on survival skills. Made it more enjoyable, and overall I ended up liking it more than I thought I would.

2/80

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I really like Corran Horn so I was happy he was the MC. I also enjoyed getting more Jedi lore. But holy shit was this one long-winded novel. I was starting to feel like it was never going to end, and that makes it border on so-so.

1/80

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December Wrap-Up

Total read: 11
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Kevin was born without legs and in his early 20s he traveled the world and photographed people staring at him as he rolled by on a long board. His Rolling Exhibition has been featured in museums around the world.

91/62

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It's hard to judge this book on its own because the entire time I was reading it bits and pieces of the movie and its haunting song were running through my head. But what I did get from the book that I didn't from the movie is that this story is almost as much about Oliver and his father as it is about Oliver and Jenny.

90/62

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We're ignoring the ripped sticker since I got this from a LFL 🙃

It made zero sense.

89/62

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First read of 2024 is in the books ?

This was no *Like Water For Chocolate* that's for sure. But the story of Júbilo and Lucha and their daughter Lluvia was sweet. The bits of history of the telegraph were interesting. However, the extraneous, not quite, mystical elements were nothing but distracting.

1/62
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