I wanted to learn more about Mr. Rogers and his show and how progressive it was for its time, but this was more about his friendship with the author and I just didn't care to keep reading about their relationship.

Anxiety and depression can't be cured by just a pill, and this book examines many other causes and treatments by uniting them with the theme of lost connections. I really loved all the studies covered throughout the book. it was a very interesting read.

I didn't finish this because I didn't feel like I was really learning anything. Ehrenreich is honest about the fact that she's privileged and that her experiment is comprised of too short a time period to really feel the strain of poverty, but as someone who's worked crappy minimum wage service jobs, I found her first couple experiments lacking. I much preferred "Evicted" as it followed along with actual people living in poverty and rather than an author who just tried it on for a month at a time.

This is my first Jodi Picoult book, and man what a book it is. It's a great look at our current society and all the racism and white privilege that is deeply embedded throughout. The white supremacists made me sick, and I cringed during a lot of the defender's ignorant white savior and selfish moments.

However, it really bothered me throughout the book that a privileged white author was writing about racism, including a woman of color point of view. Then, I made it past the unnecessary epilogue and read the author's note where she fully acknowledges her own privilege and the issue of writing about an experience she will never live or fully understand as a white woman. She goes on to explain that she wrote the book for a white audience, who also will never truly know how it really is living Black in America, and that is exactly why they should read this book in addition to #ownvoices books.

The neighborhood and people in this book were really interesting, but there was a lot more play by play football talk than I anticipated, which did not really interest me. I had to return it to the library because someone else had a hold placed on it, and I don't think I'll return to it.