Sandy Ingram

Feels like a book a teen might read

Revisado: 07-01-23

The plot in this book could have actually made for a good read. However, it’s choppy and bounces around giving too much descriptive details that in my opinion seem unnecessary.
To describe walking across a room to prepare a pot of coffee then to continue the steps taken to make the coffee??? That is just one example of the writing style in the book. I think most adults understand how a pot of coffee is made without describing.
I wish the author could have stated, she made or did something in a simply stated manner and given more depth to the characters.
I listened to the end which is what I try to do. I found it hard to do that with this book.

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Ivan Doig Books

Revisado: 05-21-23

I’m a fan of this author. He weaves his Montana characters together yet separately across the generations of family and American events through decades.
This book is as a fun entertaining listen!

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Recording is injected with snippets

Revisado: 12-20-22

I like the story and enjoyed the author reading his story. However as you listen comments that belong at the ending or possibly in the beginning pop up in the middle. Then without explanation there is a reading from another book injected as if it was part of this story making you think they were introducing a new character! Jumbled up recording

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Everyone is right!

Revisado: 06-09-22

I really tried to listen to this but it was like two grandmas telling you their family tree speckled with assumptions of the records they found

It has a nice title and it ends there

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Not really like a previous reviewer

Revisado: 06-09-22

To get straight to it, yes this book bounces all over the place. There are points in the book where the transition from one character to another in a remembrance of an event occurs and you get lost. I found myself thinking “ wait a second, I thought she talking about something or someone else.” Backing up the story to see where I missed the transition and still not finding the definitive moment from one character to the next. That was the annoying bit.
The author does become poetic in her description of emotion or scenery but the entire book is not “poetic”.
If your from a Idaho as I am, you recognize names of places and can relate to the period being referred to. You do also realize that not everything mentioned is true and factual. The author’s fictional license.
The storyline it’s self is not about just one thing and there are unanswered questions. Events are eluded to and not explained so your left guessing. Yet there are parts that you can assume would be what a person might do if in the situation they found themselves.

From the credits it sounds like she had numerous people involved in her writing of the story. “Helping” her edit and maybe too involved for the author to flourish her own creative license. I don’t know but I can’t say it wasn’t a story that you just lost interest in. I wanted to hear what came next even when I had to retrace at times.

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Like an old movie

Revisado: 06-09-22

I enjoyed this book. The story was so like the many stories of the south with the injustice, the self imposed superior attitudes. What made it enjoyable for me was the narrator, her gentle voice that was matter of fact, I was able to believe it was as it was. The separation of not only races but the white class. Those who look down on those less fortunate than how they saw themselves or their opinions of themselves. The poking into other peoples lives unnecessarily as if it really mattered. The main character, she understood this and gave them all reason to do better.

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Authors maybe shoot read their own books?

Revisado: 05-03-22

The story Mr. Bragg tells is his personal story. One that is unfortunately familiar across America even still. How substance abuse and the choices of parents creates a dismal life for their children. Usually as in Mr. Bragg’s story, one parent isn’t the abuser but a victim as well. This parent leaves to save themselves and the children and get stuck in yet another circumstance not always of their making. Just limited choices and resources. Not an unfamiliar story then and now.
What I did like was that Mr. Bragg wasn’t afraid to pursue a developing talent. That he wasn’t afraid to throw himself into his work which lead to his success. He did very well in spite of his early life.
His story should be shared to give young people who are currently living like he once did, encouragement to pull themselves out of a life not of their making.
Only, not by Mr. Bragg himself reading his own work. My gosh what a snore! It was like sitting in a classroom with a teacher who is no longer enthusiastic about teaching. Let someone else read your work Mr. Bragg for heaven sake PlEASE!!

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