Review of God gave a Glasgow girl nineluves
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Review of God gave a Glasgow girl nineluves
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "God gave a Glasgow girl nineluves" by Eunice Ivy Graham.]
God Gave A Glasgow Girl Nine Lives: An Autobiography is a beautiful autobiographical novel written by Eunice Graham, which details every beautiful moment of her life as well as the worst and how, according to her, God has saved her on several occasions from suffering great evil or even death. It begins in her childhood, when the resources of her single-parent family were scarce, then details her studies and student work, her short stay as a novice nun, and finished with this, she begins with her working life, during which she found what, for many years, she would think it was love.
Now, to begin to unravel all the ins and outs of this book, I would like to comment that it seems to have been written in parts or, as is the case of the vast majority of writers, that during the writing its author read different books with completely opposite styles. This results in the beginning being much more colloquial than the rest (it contains too many exclamations and somewhat childish expressions like "shockarooney"), and in the middle of this it goes from a magnificent style worthy of someone from the UK to one that is more crude and with American touches.
Then, looking at the negative aspects (I consider the previous point somewhat neutral since it is completely common), I think that the author tends to go too far into the bush and forget the main plot a bit, and, in my opinion, the childhood part is too long, and there is unnecessary data left over, as well as the lack of nexus between different topics or chapters. Also, the vocabulary in Spanish should be revised (for example, "sangría" —has an accent—), and there's a bad punctuation that should be corrected (just like the issue of the Spanish lexicon) with a better and more professional edition since the current one seems somewhat mediocre.
However, and continuing with the positive aspects, I must say that I loved the author's own style (and not the variations of it presented in the second paragraph); it is beautiful in general, has a wide vocabulary, and provides many understandable grammatical constructions, but that do not stop being composed. In addition, she manages through simple words to immerse the reader in the story and feel an unusual empathy towards her and some of her friends and family, which leads the readers to experience different feelings such as anger, sadness, uncertainty, joy, and many more.
So, taking all of the above into account and paying special attention to the last paragraph, I would like to rate this book three out of four stars, recommend another round of editing, and congratulate its writer for such good work.
Furthermore, almost as a postscript, I would like to tell the author that her bad experience in Tenerife is a relatively isolated case. I lived there for ten years in a much less safe city than the one you went to, and I never had any problems, so I encourage you to return to the Canary Islands, where there are also more islands, if you are completely sure that you do not want to see Tenerife again.
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God gave a Glasgow girl nineluves
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God Gave A Glasgow Girl Nine Lives: An Autobiography is a beautiful autobiographical novel written by Eunice Graham, which details every beautiful moment of her life as well as the worst and how, according to her, God has saved her on several occasions from suffering great evil or even death. It begins in her childhood, when the resources of her single-parent family were scarce, then details her studies and student work, her short stay as a novice nun, and finished with this, she begins with her working life, during which she found what, for many years, she would think it was love.
Now, to begin to unravel all the ins and outs of this book, I would like to comment that it seems to have been written in parts or, as is the case of the vast majority of writers, that during the writing its author read different books with completely opposite styles. This results in the beginning being much more colloquial than the rest (it contains too many exclamations and somewhat childish expressions like "shockarooney"), and in the middle of this it goes from a magnificent style worthy of someone from the UK to one that is more crude and with American touches.
Then, looking at the negative aspects (I consider the previous point somewhat neutral since it is completely common), I think that the author tends to go too far into the bush and forget the main plot a bit, and, in my opinion, the childhood part is too long, and there is unnecessary data left over, as well as the lack of nexus between different topics or chapters. Also, the vocabulary in Spanish should be revised (for example, "sangría" —has an accent—), and there's a bad punctuation that should be corrected (just like the issue of the Spanish lexicon) with a better and more professional edition since the current one seems somewhat mediocre.
However, and continuing with the positive aspects, I must say that I loved the author's own style (and not the variations of it presented in the second paragraph); it is beautiful in general, has a wide vocabulary, and provides many understandable grammatical constructions, but that do not stop being composed. In addition, she manages through simple words to immerse the reader in the story and feel an unusual empathy towards her and some of her friends and family, which leads the readers to experience different feelings such as anger, sadness, uncertainty, joy, and many more.
So, taking all of the above into account and paying special attention to the last paragraph, I would like to rate this book three out of four stars, recommend another round of editing, and congratulate its writer for such good work.
Furthermore, almost as a postscript, I would like to tell the author that her bad experience in Tenerife is a relatively isolated case. I lived there for ten years in a much less safe city than the one you went to, and I never had any problems, so I encourage you to return to the Canary Islands, where there are also more islands, if you are completely sure that you do not want to see Tenerife again.
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God gave a Glasgow girl nineluves
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