

Sweet story, if a little bit of a stretch.
I can see why this book won the awards it did. A good YA read that has a way of worming into your brain. Part funny part serious, overall an excellent read I would recommend to anyone.
4.5 ⭐This book is beautiful. This is a book for a non-biological child. Reiterating that while they may not have been birthed but they were wanted, waited for, and anxious to be met in the world. The illustrations are lovely they go right with the story, and this is sure to be one kids will read and parents will read to their children for years if not generations to come.
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3 ⭐ This book is fine. The illustrations are soft and dreamlike and while the story does rhyme and does have a cadence, that cadence is soft in areas. The story‘s about how everyone‘s different and that is perfectly OK because everyone is who they were made to be. I like the message in this book and overall it works well. But to me it‘s only so so.
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5 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This book starts with a child asking their parent to tell them about the night they were born. it goes through the child being born and picked up and how special it was because the child is adopted. This helps normalize adoption. It‘s not a scary thing, it‘s what it is, and it‘s its own special view of how you came into the world. There are fabulous illustrations, and this is a forever classic by Jayme Lee Curtis.
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Just read this sweet ebook from cloudLibrary. Highly recommend for kiddos!
DeWitt's debut was grim and grotty.
If you like books where people take lots of drugs and alcohol and poop themselves - and you've already read Trainspotting - then this might be for you, but it wasn't really my cup of tea.
Reasonable writing, but no redeemable characters and written in the second person, which should never be attempted.
Read his other stuff instead.
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A good #CrazyLove quote:
“I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”
I haven‘t read this book but I have read a couple of others from this author.
It‘s been 10 years since I read this book and I was glad to drive back in. Every laugh and every tear. Stay gold ⭐️
This book!!!! My high school self buried the emotional trauma of the ending and my adult self is considering reburying it.
John Marsden had such an ability to capture teenagers (some of the language is a bit dated - I‘m still chuckling at fair dinkum) - the highs and lows of being young and figuring stuff out.
I‘ll be thinking about Trace & Mandy for awhile.
Buddy read with @Rissreadswithcats - hope I didn‘t leave you too many messages 😅