Elmehdi Afifo Afifo থেকে 46390 Akbayır Belediyesi/Elbistan/Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
Cute mystery, fun to read. Although there were several highly unlikely things happening (the whole scene at the library!). But it was fun and totally clean. And I'm reading the rest of the series if for no other reason then to get the recipes that are included! The lemon tart recipe easily gets 5 stars!! Loved it! By far the best lemon dessert I've ever had!
This is a book that I was sort of peripherally looking forward to reading for a while, and maybe that's part of why it was just okay for me. Maybe my expectations were too high because of the awesomeness of the title. This was a book that I enjoyed just fine while I was reading it, but I never felt any impetus to go back to it when I had been away from it. Even though the events in the book should have been suspenseful enough to keep me coming back, the writing didn't quite communicate that excitement. However, this has led me to realize that I can do an advanced lesson on how to build suspense in writing! The story itself is fabulous and made me strangely jealous. Jealous? Of a man who lost both of his parents within a few weeks of each other? Well, I was jealous that he got to raise his little brother. It just seemed like they had so much fun together, and I found myself wishing that I got to raise my awesome baby brother and sister without any grownups telling us what to do. I wish the story had been more about the family and less about the magazine. Sorry, Mr. Eggers, I just didn't care that much about the magazine. I cared very much about you raising your brother. Again, the choices Eggers made about which strands to follow helped me think about how I want to teach narrative writing. I enjoyed how self-conscious the writing was; I loved when Eggers would just toss a moment into some dialogue in which a "character" is aware of how he's being used in the book. I also loved how much it felt like it belongs to its time; it feels very 90s somehow. I can't be more specific, it just feels very 90s.