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melissajayne
All the Quiet Places: A Novel | Brian Thomas Isaac
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐️ Read this for one of my library #bookclubs in November and thought it was ok. #2023 #indigenious #britishcolumbia #fiction #historicalfiction #canadareads #governorgeneral

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Robotswithpersonality
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Mehso-so

Awkward. I was hoping for honest reflections on the role reading, engaging with books, can play in incarcerated people's lives, and that was part of the text. The awkward part was the author's realization that literature didn't play as big a role in their lives as in hers, that the book club was an escape that she seemed happy to be part of until confronted with its relative position in others' lives and ends on a self-pitying note. 1/4

Robotswithpersonality 2/? There's a real push pull between humanizing the incarcerated, something society needs more of, and focusing on the author's own feelings, experiences. Maybe it's just trying for honest, in which case the unflattering personal portrait is an accomplishment of truth. 3w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? I think my personal bias factors in, because formal schooling emphasizing grinding away at a dry, incomprehensible text in faith that there is hidden brilliance is similar to the experiences that sent me into a decade long reading slump, reading behaviour that I now heartily reject. Reading her inflict that on the group intermittently between more savvy book choices is painful. 3w
Robotswithpersonality ⚠️animal death, mention of SA 3w
Robotswithpersonality On the plus side, I found a memoir for my TBR actually written by an incarcerated person, Sentence: Ten Years and A Thousand Books in Prison. I'm hopeful the shift in POV/author will make for a more focused read on the subject matter. 3w
Larkken Sounds like a nf version of the tagged with a side of saviorism, sorta 3w
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The Escape | Hannah Jayne
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The Rules | Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie
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Mirrored | Alex Flinn
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Rules for Being a Girl | Katie Cotugno, Candace Bushnell
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Fallout | Gwenda Bond
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This was a fun read. It‘s a modern retelling of The Prince and the Pauper, with a fandom twist. It was an adorable story. I enjoyed it quite a lot. I can‘t wait to finish the series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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