
My July choice for #ReadOrDonate is Palisades Park, historical fiction about a legendary amusement park near where I grew up in New Jersey. What will everyone else be reading and/or donating?

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My July choice for #ReadOrDonate is Palisades Park, historical fiction about a legendary amusement park near where I grew up in New Jersey. What will everyone else be reading and/or donating?
When everything just syncs up👌 I loved “Palisades Park” so much! It gave me very similar feelings as “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” so if you enjoyed that, you would maybe like this too! I‘ll give you the warning nobody gave me though…. do not read it if you‘re hungry. The French fry descriptions were too much for me and I found myself salivating several times 🤤😜 I‘d go so far as to give it five stars 🤩
I love when my Facebook memories are about reading! This was 3 years ago, pre-Litsy, but this book has stuck with my and I remember it clearly, which says a lot for me! I pulled it off the shelf because I was doing authors alphabetically from the library (inadvertent #LitsyAtoZ) and the spine was gorgeous!
I wanted to love this book. After reading “Moloka'i” and “Honolulu,” I was expecting another home run from Brennert. I was wrong. The writing in this book is pretty flat. The plot reads more like separate vignettes designed to list a lot of historical references in the order in which they happened. The narrative just moves from one vignette to the next, with no real emotional impact or understanding of the characters‘ motives or thought process.
Historical fiction. A trip down memory lane and a love letter to the park.