![]() ![]() Having grown up with their father and their grandmother, Nisha and Amil know very little about their Muslim mother, aside from her paintings, which her father keeps hidden. Nisha decides to use the diary as a way to write to her mother, who died while giving birth to Nisha and her twin brother Amil. In presenting it to her, he tells her it is meant to “make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy” (p. The diary is given to her by Kazi, the Muslim cook who works for Nisha’s Hindu family. The novel unfolds in the form of a diary kept by Nisha from Jto November 10, 1947. So observes twelve-year-old Nisha, the protagonist of Veera Hiranandani’s gorgeous historical novel that offers contemporary readers a window on the Partition of India and Pakistan, the largest human migration in history, and an event that American students, and perhaps teachers, are likely to know little to nothing about. “Wasn’t independence from the British supposed to free us? We’ve never been less free” (p. Thankfully, it was a short book and didn't take long to read, but I would not want to read it again.Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, 2018 The situations were silly, and the plot was predictable. Maldonati have an eating disorder, but it came across as her making a joke out of it, which is not okay. Maldonati,into a character that really affected how Brina viewed herself by making her Mrs. The only good character was Sully.Īnd I feel like the author was trying to make Brina's mom, Mrs. And the author had said in the beginning that Brina didn't like cussing, and yet had her cursing quite a lot later on in the book. We were unaware that Brina wanted to study art or had ANY interest in art until more than halfway through the book, almost completely done with her storyline. And then the author would just randomly throw in stuff about them. But they weren't and made stupid decisions that nobody in real life would make just to have certain scenes in the book. It was cliche, but if the characters are well written, I can deal with cliches. Trace is the normal main character who is different than everybody else and has a best friend, Brina, with big boobs and a dramatic personality who likes dumb jocks and everybody wants to have sex with her. It felt messy and not very well put together.Īnd the characters were unbelievably annoying and not well crafted together. There's basically three stories going on at one time and some books are really good at balancing it (for example, Night Circus) but So Lyrical wasn't one of them. And although it did have some redeeming qualities, it just wasn't enough for a higher rating. But I couldn't because it had so many problems. The fuck is that, trying to passive voice that kind of bullshit? Nor is rape ever the victim's/survivor's fault. There ain't one damn person in the world that "gets themselves raped" because of what they wear, people get raped by monsters and clothing has nothing whatsoever to do with someone's chances of being raped. "I couldn't in good conscience let her do it, so I drove her home. "She was going to get herself raped if she followed her original plan, which was hitchhiking home wearing that dress," he said. Lo dress" = black dress with a neckline cut down to her bellybutton, back is open all the way down to the top of her butt. Brina has a massive crush on him and suspects he might be her secret admirer. They manage to victim-blame a girl who didn't even get attacked! Context again: Trace's teacher is about to take Trace's mom Bebe on a date and Trace is interrogating him about a number of things, like the car ride he gave to her best friend Brina and rumors he had relationships with students. Now, the victim-blaming and rape culture. I can't make that shit up, she actually thinks that. is exactly as bad as every Confederate soldier who fought to keep slavery intact and murdered American citizens in the American Civil War. Shit, this is like when my racist-ass mom said LAST MONTH that Martin Luther King Jr. What other explanation is there?"ĭoesn't matter that she's the antagonist or even if she's only the antagonist for a short time! There were decent people in 2005 who knew not to use that word. The minute he was out of sight, I heard Buffy say, "I actually feel kind of sorry for her. He didn't, so she landed ass-first on the floor. Context is that Trace's new guy Zander pulled a dinner chair out for Trace at a debutante ball and she thought he'd push the chair in again as she was sitting down. ![]() The ableism and use of the r-word is excerpted exactly as it appears in the text with no censoring of the word. I got 79 pages in before hitting my bullshit tolerance. Content warning: Ableism, the r-word, victim-blaming/rape culture. Not even the book's age is a good excuse. ![]()
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