Why I Picked ItI feel like this was a book that I had just seen a lot about and heard that it was really good. So when I saw it at the local Goodwill store in really good shape, I decided to give it a try! I was in the mood for another realistic fiction book, so I grabbed it off my shelf for my fourth read of 2019. SummaryDelores Price's life changes drastically as she grows up, and most of it starts when the free black-and-white television showed up at their house. You follow Delores from adolescence, through the awkwardness of middle school, into college and adulthood. You go with her through family problems, making friends, discovering herself, and battling issues (so many issues…) of all kinds. This book is kind of hard to summarize because it's such a long storyline that anything I go into could end up being a spoiler, so I won't give you much more than that What I LikedWhen I started the book, I was enjoying it. It was an interesting story of a young girl trying to find her place in the world and trying to figure out rights and wrongs. She wasn't sure all the time what was going on around her, yet she also wasn't completely naive either. I did enjoy watching her go through some of the problems. Like making friends. At times growing up, I could understand the ease of making friends who were adults much better than being friends with kids my own age. I also understand what it's like with battling parents (though not near as bad as what Delores goes through). The voicing was great. I could hear personality throughout the whole book. And most characters were developed pretty well, giving you a good idea of who each one was What I didn't LikeOkay, so about halfway through this book, I started getting really irritated. Delores as a character was making all the wrong choices. Given her history, I could understand why she'd be acting out so badly. However, the battle kept raging in her head, yet she kept making the choice she knew was wrong. Almost every time. Not only that, but every time yet another bad thing would happen to Delores, I got increasingly upset. I get that some people have really really rough lives and strings of bad luck, but it was getting ridiculous. By the end, I felt like Lamb just wanted to shove all of the social problems of that era into one book. AIDS, same-sex relationships, abortion, mental illness, divorce, racism, sexual assault, abuse, you name it, it's probably in this book. Another thing. NOT ALL GUYS ARE AWFUL PEOPLE. Let me spell that out one more time. NOT. ALL. GUYS. ARE. AWFUL. If you read this book, you may notice that pretty much every male character is portrayed in a negative manner. Really, there's only 2 male characters…maybe 3…that aren't awful or totally insane. All of the rest of them do something bad. And not just like, make a bad decision. Awful things. And though, in the end, I'm glad Delores finally gets a break with all her bad luck, I think the end was very ridiculous. Within the last 15 pages (15 PAGES!) I didn't want to finish the book. Like, I laid my head down and screamed into my pillow at 11 p.m. when I finally finished it (Corgan just laughed a little and said, "Well, at least you finished it."). I was just.so.done. Overall Impression 🌟🌟2 stars. Mainly because I didn't hate it until halfway through, and then I didn't start REALLY hating it until about another 150 pages later. I think the book just tried to cover way too much of her life. And too many issues. Overall, it's just the problem that there was too much shoved into one book (even a 640 page book), and it became too much for me.
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