Title: My Life in Pink & Green
Author: Lisa Greenwald
Category: Fiction, Middle Grade
Why I Read It: It released in 2009, and I was in the mood for something new.

Summary: 12-year-old Lucy’s mom inherited the family pharmacy, which is in danger of being foreclosed on.

Stopped on Page: 75
Why I Stopped: The main thing that bugged me is that Lucy is oddly gushing about her mom.

Old Mill Pharmacy doesn’t just carry the usual magazines like People and Glamour and Time. We have those, but we also carry magazines that are hard to find on the average drugstore news rack, like the Nation and the Progressive.

My mom’s a huge reader. She’ll read anything she can get her hands on, and especially stuff about people making a difference or taking a stand on complicated issues. She doesn’t just accept situations as they are—she’s always questioning things, so she likes to read magazines and newspapers that reflect that state of mind.

She’s one of those people who truly believe one person can change the world.

Ugh. Does that make anyone else feel a little green around the gills?

This is also one example from the first 75 pages where I felt like I was getting a moral lesson. Not in my fiction, thankyouverymuch.

Should I have kept going? Or was I right to stop?

Note: As an aspiring author, I respect the extraordinary amount of effort that goes into writing a book. I did not write this review in order to be unfair or negative about the book. My goal is simply to articulate why the book wasn’t for me.

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