Ann Dee Ellis
Autor(a) de This is What I Did:
Obras por Ann Dee Ellis
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Organizações
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 607
- Popularidade
- #41,417
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 45
- ISBN
- 36
- Línguas
- 3
I don't normally like books in which the first-person narrator is unlikable, which was definitely the case here. Mazzy doesn't become likable as the book moves along either... but we do in time learn why she is the way she is, and it's heartbreaking.
A short book, told in short chapters, with mostly short sentences, it's a very quick read. Mazzy lives with her catatonic mother, barely taking care of her or herself, while her father has left to pursue a fantastic job opportunity. Mazzy slogs through her days watching TV and sitting under the sprinkler in her yard, and not doing much else.
But the real story is what happened before the book begins that put she and her mother in the states they're in... and that back story is very gradually revealed as the book progresses.
Secondary character, Norma, is a saint.
The book ends sort of enigmatically. It's left to the reader to decide what the ending means.
I'll definitely be re-reading this one, because I'm sure I'll get more from it in a second reading.
(Note: I disagree with many other reviewers here. This is not a book in verse. This is prose, but in mostly very short sentences, and no indentations at paragraph beginnings. But prose nonetheless.)… (mais)