libscote's Reviews (6.4k)

I hadn't read poetry by Ada Limon before this book, and I loved it. I discovered the poems through a Poetry Foundation email and one from Shit You Should Care About, and I liked it enough to go for the book. Now I need to find more. :)

Better for younger Star Wars fans (and not current with the story as it stands today)

I'm not crying, you're crying. 

Honestly, I'm glad Marry Anning is getting more attention. So often things like dinosaurs and rocks are associated with boys, and quite possibly the world's greatest fossilist was a woman! One who couldn't get into lectures based on the information she provided. Sigh.

A quick overview of Greta's life, with what some might say too much information scrubbed (never mentions autism/Asperger's by name, for example).

This book is a good, but hard read. It shows the hardship of life when poverty limits your means, and how easily it can to be trafficked and what happens when you are. Although it doesn't go into graphic detail, there are some harsh moments.

I actually thought this was better than Identical. Maybe it was because all the things happening were spread across more people? 

I feel like this is setting up another arc for Gamache. Very sad ending.

I really liked learning about 1950s rural Malaysia. 

Felt a little pretentious to me, but I can see why it's important to so many people.