Tracy C

Read as part of the book club for work.

I didn't like the book. There were a few good nuggets of information, but overall, the book felt like one big advertisement for BootCamp. Some of their suggestions just wouldn't work in a typical corporate situation. You can't set emails aside to read at just one time of the day or even two. If you require a response from someone to get some work done, you can't wait for them to get to their allotted time of the day for email reading, either. It's utopic. And unrealistic.

What a memoir! You run across people in your life who don't know “things”... standard things that you learn in the normal course of growing up, without actually being taught. You wonder how that happned. Now I know!

Tara knew a lot of things with regard to living and surviving on her mountain, but after leaving the mountain, her lack of education regarding anything outside of that mountain, or anything outside of what her father would allow was mind-blowing.

A gripping tale of love and scorn, violence and control, and eventual freedom. The story I was expecting (I'm not sure what I expected, to be honest), but it was an amazing story none-the-less.

People are Eff'd up!!! WOW!!
I like the way that most of the book played out, and the characters were introduced. But the end seemed to come in a rush... like someone suddenly remembered they had a deadline and had to wrap it up quick!!
Also, the last chapter was really kind of weird for me. Like an after-thought.
Overall, I liked the book though. The story was good... one that I would never think of! haha

I don't live this life, so I can't say with certainty, but it seems pretty “real” to me. Would connect with young teens. I was invested. Characters are developed very well. Easy to connect to.

Stay golden Pony-Boy, stay golden.