I was hooked from the first page. Tommy's writing style is beautiful and the content is fascinating, I stayed up late the first night I was reading it and finished half of it.

I am used to reading books from the bullying victim, not the bully, so this book was an interesting change of pace for me. Tae Keller did an outstanding job with this difficult story line, all my high expectations were exceeded.

Book by a Native American.

So funny!

A fascinating read about eighteenth century colonial life in Maine based on the diary of a wife mother, gardener and healer;numerous challenges and adventures. Notably, the great great grandmother of Mary Hobart, MD, an early American female physician and the great aunt of Clara Barton. The author, ulrich,fills in the cultural and social logical makeup of family, male and female roles as well as community, religious and political matters at the time. Lives of severe hardships and challenges. Martha lived a difficult and admirable life.

I am not a big sci fi reader, and tend to prefer my fiction realistic, but I really, REALLY enjoyed this. Much of the setting--and the gender issues--are so fully and realistically portrayed that it was a perfect cross-over book for me. I thoroughly enjoyed how it made me think, but at the same time I was engaged with the characters.

Without hyperbole the best book I've read this year; Literary to a tee, with rich, believably flawed characters, and a gently twisty plot. The narrative style feels like non-supernatural Stephen King at his best (The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Mr. Mercedes) while being reminiscent of the misery level drama (or trauma) of books like 'The Girl Next Door' by Jack Ketchum or 'Before We Were Yours' by Lisa Wingate. While the Story spans decades and over 250 chapters, it never drags; pulling you along the lives of deeply damaged people, concluding in an ending that, while not ideal or perfect, is as messy as real life, and ultimately satisfying.

I like the bad seed because he is very bad but even know he’s very bad. He’s still can decide to be good what he does and that’s a good job of him so I’m very proud of the bad seed and he has way more fun being good even though you’re so stuck into being bad you still can find ways to having fun just like the couch potato he never realized how much fun it was to see each other in person cause it is really fun in a bad seat where that too and you’ll never know if you try and you know what sometimes I act that way and the couch potato on the bad seed cousins so they have to try to be the same but this doesn’t mean that they have to learn from different stuff. The bad seed had a great lesson and so did the couch potato so you always have to try right because if you never try then you’ll never learn what you want to do so that’s why they both have to learn the lessons in their lives to make them good and have fun cause friends won’t wanna be with you if you’re bad but that makes a whole lot difference when you’re good

This was a classic Weiner book. The setting was Martha's Vineyard and Boston. A terrible event happens to the main character when she is young and this event effects the entire plot.

I loved the book because it had funny details, like the gorilla was extremely wet all of the time, with a shark gnawing on his bottom. The gorilla died in the shark exhibit; he drowned. The plot was very funny and interesting. The book kept my attention. It took me 1.5 days to read it.