book review : solito by javier zamora
hi, i'm back to hit you with a spicy book review over here.
this is the second memoir that i have read, my first being matthew perry's, which i rated 4/5 stars on goodreads. i don't have a huge opinion or a specific taste on memoirs in general, considering i've just begun reading them. however, i have a bone to pick with this book and it's the fact that i just wasn't feeling it.
if you know and have read solito, you'd know it follows the story of a nine-year-old boy traveling with a group of people to illegally immigrate to the united states to live with his parents, who also illegally immigrated years prior. if you haven't read it, well, there you go.
it is a true story, so i suppose that's why some parts bored me half to death.
i'm also not a children kinda person, so i have very little tolerance for the behavior of kids in general, and maybe that's another reason as to why i didn't have much patience for the back and forth of this kid's thoughts.
he was constantly worried about where he was going to use the washroom. this was amusing at first, but by the end i was like c'mon man, pick a new subject. please, i'm dying over here.
moving on past the fact that he was just a child with child-like worries, i did really enjoy the cover. the art was gorgeous and that was the reason why i chose to pick up the book in the first place.
so to finish it off, if you want to hear an immigration story through a child's eyes, solito is for you. if you don't want to, and you're like me, you'll be giving it 2/5 stars on goodreads.
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