tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523300192245025551.post6311546605531478082..comments2024-03-28T06:23:05.651-04:00Comments on Ivy Book Bindings: Review: My Life Next Door by Huntley FitzpatrickKeertanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01071392026876644282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523300192245025551.post-39846849637856326742013-10-30T13:44:15.630-04:002013-10-30T13:44:15.630-04:00Had to check out your review after you mentioned y...Had to check out your review after you mentioned you didn't really like this because I felt like the only one not to love this book. Apparently I still gave it four stars but I'm not really sure why because I really did not like how this book unraveled.The Insouciant Sophisticatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03934853089105345052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523300192245025551.post-14002810308459826682012-10-08T21:31:21.484-04:002012-10-08T21:31:21.484-04:00Nice review. I'd only like to add that the au...Nice review. I'd only like to add that the author grew up in a Connecticut coast town and attended a prep school, then Yale. In other words, she lived the lifestyle, if not the life, of her protagonist Samantha. What she didn't know much about was the lifestyle of the working class family of Jase. And it shows. They're too Brady Bunch. Jase, so perfect and polite, would have been a far more compelling character if the author had understood the small flashes of anger he carried within himself, anger that he hid from Sam and from the author herself. Not that he would have been a raving Marxist or anything. But the author has no idea how it feels to live on the economic edge. Of course, I'm bringing my own baggage to the book, but don't we all?Joe Cottonwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282993255868590544noreply@blogger.com