![]() ![]() ![]() Her voice stays the same, but it grows with her. I think Holm does an excellent job at maintaining the Voice of May Amelia, while she obviously grows and changes. There is swindling and rejection and murrrderrr. It doesn’t do that in a whiny way, but it does do it in a somewhat adult way. It goes into how people suck and growing up sucks. Like, Oh no! They fell in a river! Mamma, what are cow pies?! That kind of thing. It starts out like a funny, silly chapter-book experience. That seems nice.Īnyway, this book is a beautiful story that illustrates what I think about the “simple life” not being all it’s cracked up to be. But, maybe they are not trying to be fashionably retro-counter-culture, and they just mean that they love enough people who they see in person that it is overwhelming to look beyond that. I do not think life is simpler without technology. ![]() When people say they’re abandoning technology to simplify, I feel suspicious. The latter option seems much more simple to me. I’m one of those annoying people who, when someone else waxes nostalgic about a previous decade or century, is always like, “sexist, racist, no hot running water, cobble stones are annoying, smelly, wild animals, Hitler, and no zippers.” I dig simplicity, but that’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder, you know? For example, I could run around town, trying to find somebody who wanted to listen to my opinion about this book, or I could just post it on the internet, and see if anyone cares. ![]()
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