Gravel Heart
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The last 30% of the book were pretty great but I felt like there was a lot of lengths where there really wasn't much of anything of interest happening or being said just rather mundane events and maybe I just missed the point?
My book club read this book as our August 2022 pick and I looked forward to reading the book.
But, honestly, the first sentence made it hard to get much further. Maybe I'm just not in the right headspace to read a story about a kid whose father neglected or didn't love him and couldn't find compelling rest the meaning of Shakespeare's “Measure for Measure” to the book. I kept picking up the softcover and couldn't get past the first few pages. So, I soldiered on through maybe 1/3 of the audiobook and felt unusually burdened by the story. So, I went to the discussion and resolved to trouble myself no more with the book.