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Real Characters

Revisado: 01-09-24

Before purchasing this book, I read all the negative review but decided to give it a try. Yes, the book was boring in terms of plot and narrator (monotone), I started listening and gave up several time before this book engaged me in a subtle way. All characters were portraited like real human being. Flaw, smart, selfish, kind, silly, weak, all in the mixing. They misunderstood, and then assumed on their own, why other people did what they did, which we the real people did all the time. I particularly like little moments of sharp dialog and reminiscence here and there.

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Fast forward, skip

Revisado: 02-13-23

Improbable plot. Slow. Cloyingly sweet. Should never trust review and stars.
Maybe aiming for young adult.

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Drag on

Revisado: 12-02-22

Promising start. Then the story dragged on and on.

It seemed to me the author wrote a thriller while trying to do psychological support for her characters's behavior. It doesn't go well either way. Everybody has her or his issues to solve in a way that supported the main theme. But then it didn't really go anywhere and became quite a bored to have to invest time in each character.

For me the dramatization of reading is interesting as well as distraction. I enjoy book in a different way from movie or theater. I'm not sure I like it that much when the two combined.

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Another Pendulum Swing

Revisado: 07-13-21

I think American people give too much priority to privacy of their nuclear families  Like pendulum swing, this book recommended that it was so great to be back to the more the merrier.

I’m a professional like the author, and yes, I was overstressed and scary when I had to stay alone with my own first born.  Luckily I’m a typical Asian parent. It's inevitable that we have grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins around the child all the time to give hands.  These are both helpful and annoying, with conflicting advices, opposite practices, rivalry and resentment. Lots of urban people around aren't always ideal or serene as the author feels in a short period of time she stayed with the tribes. You can’t have the best of both worlds.

Like other reviews, I found the narrator voice very annoying.  I’d also say I agree with Rosie if she felt her mother talked too much at too high pitch, gave too many instructions (and repetitively) and simply uncomfortable to be around.   

For me good concept could get through well without overly emphasizing, giving too many examples and then top it all up with summary (yet again?).

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Go on and on

Revisado: 07-23-20

At first quite confusing, then fascinating, then too long with too many sub plots and became boring.
The narrator did her performance very well though.

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Author signature

Revisado: 05-13-20

Definitely her style and story.
If you like her other books, you will like this one.

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Original and Disturbing

Revisado: 01-17-20

This book was engaging in a squeamish kind of way. I couldn't stop listening but all the way didn't really like the story. Too too many f words and swearing that listener like me can never get used to. The narrator did a great job though.

I just finished listening to Audible title "No Stone Unturned" before listening to this book. So to me it was truly unconvincing when cases of missing persons was never thoroughly investigated and autopsy never revealed the true nature of crime.

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Sweet and Nostalgic

Revisado: 01-14-20

Love it overall, except story about the saint mother. Better not to let her come back and ruin the credibility.

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Underlining with fun

Revisado: 12-11-19

This clumsy simple man sitting among passengers at the flight to San Francisco was a paranoid picky and nerd engineer whose brain was at his full capacity. Who should guess so?

His stories were brilliant.

The information would have been much easier to depict if he gave number in metric scale too, as the rest of the world outside U.K and the U.S. adopt in their daily lives. Mile, Fahrenheit, gallon, pound? not actually made sense to metric system users.

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Beautiful

Revisado: 11-28-19

Tribute to Jackie in her late life.
The poems and songs are beautiful and heart felt.

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