My Top Reads of 2017!

I'm always amazed at how many different ideas and topics Jen manages to cram into such short stories.

I found it so beautiful it talks about beauty, beauty of language, beauty of music and numbers and patterns but then also about families and a person's presence in their children's lives and the kind of the after-effects of that throughout the generations. This is an absolute triumph of a book she has so much in here it's so accomplished and she covers so many different topics so well but on top of that it's also an enjoyable read as I said before.

it's such an enjoyable book and I really love the writing style, I got completely swept up with the characters and really invested in it so I would really highly recommend

the plot twists and turns in ways that you wouldn't have expected it's so wonderfully written and weaves in themes of family and motherhood and culture and storytelling and I absolutely loved it.

I really enjoyed this because having read a lot of books on feminism from a woman's perspective and being a woman myself, it was really refreshing to hear from a man's perspective and what it's like to grow up with the pressures of masculinity as they are in current society and it's a very short book.

this book I didn't like it as soon as I started reading it. It took me a while to warm up to it, but as I read it I got so involved and my enjoyment of the book was almost exponential like by the end I was like 'I never want this book to end!'

I really loved this book because Juno's voice is I was going to say authentic, of course her voice is authentic, but it's just so friendly and companionable and when you're reading along its colloquial but still reads so well and she gets all of her points and her arguments across in a way that is so easy for anyone to understand.

it's such a beautiful pondering on life and what life is and about death and how that is part of our everyday lives.

it unfolds so slowly and so beautifully and I completely loved her writing. It's a very long book and it's the kind of thing where nothing much happens although obviously a murder happens so it's a big thing, but day to day not much seems to be going on but behind the scenes there's a lot there.

the book itself reads beautifully, it's so interesting and heartbreaking to hear his perspective as his life draws to a close and also his thoughts on life in general. I would still recommend it because it's quite uplifting and joyful about life and at the same time.