I read Such a Fun Age and it surprised me! || book review 

Exactly! Would it have been satisfying for Alix and Kelley to learn big lessons or get their just desserts or whatever? Sure. Would it have been realistic? Probably not. Everyone keeps living and likely with all of the ideas they had when they started this story.

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I hope you enjoy it!

I don't think I really questioned the toddler being ushered out of the house thing. It's not every mom whose first thought would be "get the baby out of the house," but I feel like I've come across a mom or two whose reaction would be that. In the book, Alix treats Briar as an inconvenience a lot and we see that she's an incredibly perceptive and curious child. It just felt in character for me that Alix would want to "protect" Briar in this way and wouldn't really think about the inconvenience of calling her babysitter at midnight. I hadn't thought about the commentary on social media as a whole because that element to me really fed into the characterization of Alix! It never felt like "social media is bad" but rather that Alix in general was just really self-centered and all of her actions read as self-serving. I never believed that she cared about empowering women, tbh. I never believed she cared about helping Emira. Her obsession with looking right and maintaining a certain image felt more about who Alix was as a character than what social media is as an entity, if that makes sense. I definitely felt the most of Emira, especially because she really was just worried about her job, her health insurance, her relationships, etc. Hers were the worries that were the most grounded to me. Kelley had some benefit of the doubt until the end. I mean, to that end, he also had a long history of dating WOC. But I think that's kind of what the book is getting at. There is nothing ~wrong~ with that per se, but it goes back to motivation and stereotypes and the fetishizing of WOC. I left the book thinking that without a doubt, Kelley, for any of his good intentions, was fetishizing WOC. Thank you for watching and for the thoughtful comment! I love hearing about how people engaged with this book because there really was so much to digest!

@@mynameismarines "so much to digest" really is putting it mildly! The other thing for me is that you hit the nail regarding Briar, and actually, she is the one character I had most empathy for because of her mother, and I felt so strongly about Alix that she seemed totally unhinged to me! And you are welcome 😃.

The power. (I literally set up my tripod on a whim after work, recorded the whole thing with no script lol and then edited it before bed. Truly, your power at work.)

yes this is perfect I'm glad you (1) told me to read this book & (2) made this video

@@mynameismarines AMAZING.

Thank you! And I hope you enjoy it if/when you get there.

Strange the Dreamer! What were you expecting before reading? I can't remember what I had heard about that book prior to reading. I read it because LAINI TAYLOR.

@@mynameismarines I'd knew of Laini Taylor but that was my first time reading her and I remember going in not being until sure what it was about except fantasy, I don't even know if I read the synopsis, I needed an audiobook so I picked it up and was utterly blown away.

@@TheWordN3rd I love those reading experiences so, so much. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy just to think about the unexpected surprise of a beautiful book.

@@mynameismarines All three of the book I mentioned were like that! I picked them up to have something to listen to and they rocked me. It makes me which I went into more books blind.