I listened to this audiobook on Spotify after seeing universal praise for this debut epistolary novel. I thought this story of aging Sybil Van Antwerp was engaging and diverse, covering all aspects of her life and varied interactions with others. The narration was great. I can see the appeal of the tender, painful tale.

I read this book because it was a July Indie Next pick and GMA’s book club pick. I listened to the audiobook via Libby and was surprised by the English-accented narration by actress Lucy Boynton (though in retrospect I shouldn’t because of the author’s Irish origin). This book definitely felt like Survivor with more coupling and more cutthroat consequences. I couldn’t look away from the competition of it all and my interest was maintained up until the couple switching. The book had a bit of a lull but finished with what seemed to be an explosion of the seven deadly sins. This was an interesting book that would be good to discuss but also one I’m unlikely to reread.

Yeah I could basically read this series forever, endlessly delighted by robots and this is such a fun depiction of 'em

Hard to get through with the repetitive descriptive language but the plot was good.

It was good ??

(4 year old’s review) I like everything in this book. It’s about Little Blue Truck and I love him. And it’s about spring. Toad gets to drive Little Blue Truck and I don’t. They get to meet a lot of friends.

I’m just very impressed with this book

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Not that easy to follow along with the pictures and instructions, even with a lot of the basic sewing skills.

Ellen outside of the lines is a really good book pre-teens and early teenagers. It is about Ellen, a middle school "girl" who is figuring out how to be herself/ who she is. I would rate this book 5/5 stars because it was a really good book with really descriptive but not too descriptive that it would be boring.