by Lynda Barry
5 StarsI want to say I enjoyed this book but "enjoyed" is definitely the wrong word. I DO know I'm adding it to my -favorites- list. It is amazing. Maybe I feel this way because it's somewhat relatable for/to me .....as far as the partying... and the drugs.. and the strange and amazing "acquaintance...
This is an incredibly dark novel that has some laugh-out-loud moments. I don't know that I've ever had such mixed feelings about a book. Its darkness - the narrator, Roberta, has a terrible life - made it difficult to read at times. Roberta's voice, however, is so compelling that I kept coming back ...
This is how you do weird and affecting and violent, Chuck Palahniuk.
I've read a lot of ugly things in my life but this book touches on a deeper level because of this young child's age and the horrors she endures daily in her truly "cruddy" life. If it weren't so darned sad it'd be almost funny. Wish this book had been around when I was 14 or so and my own life may n...
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