This book has me very confused. The way it jumps around from past to present
and the way Kristen talks about things just has me lost. I wish I could say that I like the book, but
currently I don’t. However, there are
some things that I have questioned while reading. For example, Kristen’s mother tells her and
her siblings to say “uff-da” instead of swear words because that is what “good
Norwegians” say, but when I Googled what “uff-da” means it is just an alternative
word to use for curse words. So are
these so-called “good Norwegians” really good when they are just replacing a
word with another one of the same meaning?
Another thing I’ve questioned is the number of pets that this family has
gone through: two cats, a dog, a parakeet, a turtle, and two hamsters. They have all somehow escaped or experienced
a mishap. This makes me wonder how long
the horse is actually going to last. And
lastly, the other thing I’ve questioned is the fire mishaps in the power
plant. If there was a fire there before
that was caused by the same thing, why wouldn’t the company find a way to
either prevent that from happening again, or if it did happen again, know of a
better way to put out the fire rather than to just wing-it? I’m starting to think that the power plant
isn’t the most organized place and that anything that can go wrong, will go
wrong.
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