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Jason Schmidt

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6+ verk 121 medlemmar 9 recensioner

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Not my kind of book, but the kids who want to read about how terrible someone else's life was will eat this one up.
 
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readingbeader | 8 andra recensioner | Oct 29, 2020 |
A List of Things that Didn't Kill Me is an eye-opening memoir about growing up with an abusive parent, and it's also a story of getting through a rough life, of determination to keep going. Schmidt's story can be brutal at times, but it doesn't read as a series of tragedies. It's admirable how he gets through it and tells his story after the fact, portraying his relationship with his dad and his life as very complex and many-sided.

I like Schmidt's writing style in his prose, but the chapter structure often threw me off, because it jumped around chronologically a bit; he wrote thematically and grouped events rather than times. He doesn't tone down events for the readers, even though this is categorized as YA, which is good, and I hope it helps kids in situations similar to his feel less alone.… (mer)
 
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jwmchen | 8 andra recensioner | Nov 4, 2017 |
Jason's childhood was a wild ride of dysfunction: lack of stability, drug and alchohol use all around him, an emotionally unstable, drug-addicted father who later comes down with AIDS. Unflinchingly honest and sometimes graphically horrifying, the fact that Jason kept some sense of his wits about him that he could write about it as an adult is fairly miraculous.
 
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Salsabrarian | 8 andra recensioner | Feb 2, 2016 |

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6
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Medlemmar
121
Popularitet
#164,307
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
9
ISBN
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