karencorday's review
5.0
Wow, I really loved this! I guess you have your moments when I don't want to punch you after all, McSweeney's.
nectarine_waffle's review
5.0
I read this in my early twenties and one particular anecdote stuck with me, a paragraph about the author and a moment when she is exercising on the elliptical machine a few weeks after her father died, and she feels his presence there in the air all of a sudden.
Anyway, this is a memoir written in the style of disconnected paragraphs similar to [book: Dept. of Speculation], and it's about the death of the author's father and her attempts to get pregnant, interspersed with snippets from her father's WWII diary of being a pharmacist's mate on a merchant marine ship. It's immediate and thoughtful and engaging and holds up well 15 years later.
Anyway, this is a memoir written in the style of disconnected paragraphs similar to [book: Dept. of Speculation], and it's about the death of the author's father and her attempts to get pregnant, interspersed with snippets from her father's WWII diary of being a pharmacist's mate on a merchant marine ship. It's immediate and thoughtful and engaging and holds up well 15 years later.
mybookishlifestyle's review
2.0
I randomly picked this one off my shelf and I'm not really sure why it was even on my shelf. I have no clue what this story was about...thank goodness it was a super short read...I kept reading hoping I'd get that ah'ha moment but it never came. I usually am pretty happy with the books I read but not this one...sorry!
jamiereadthis's review
2.0
Sweet and short, like a best friend giving you her diary to read. To anyone else— here, you, the reader— it’s too slight and personal to mean nearly half of what it should.
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