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Mar 26, 2018SPPL_Vio rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I'll be honest...when I was a kid and my mom was in Russia, I had to live with my aunt. Sort of like Pollyanna! Unlike Pollyanna, my aunt was actually very sweet, but she also didn't let me do anything fun (well, maybe like Pollyanna.) She "let" me listen to this book on cassette tape instead. I also watched a lot of movies about concentration camps and a movie about drug addiction and gangs in NY called "The Cross and the Switchblade" starring none other than Erik Estrada. I have no idea where this comment is going; I might be working out some childhood stuff here. Anyway, the point is...I get positive thinking. I get it. But, imagine someone in Pollyanna in real life. I could not be friends with someone like that...it's o.k. to be sad. Some things suck. Life isn't a competition of who has things worse, and not everything has a silver lining. That's o.k. Life is chaos. Entropy. Anyway, this is a sweet book simply marred by own childhood ennui.