Rebecca- Bluets Response

It took me a little while to understand the narrator and where this book was going. Throughout the first 50 pages, the narrator unravels her thoughts and experiences and let us understand the situation/topic of the book. It does not follow a chronological timeline; she jumps around in time and takes moments in between to talk about related occurrences. The narrator has a very distinct voice, and her personality and emotions show through her writing. The section on pages 33 and 34 about The Deepest Blue book is interesting and illustrative of her unique storytelling. This is one of the times that she takes a step back from the situation of sadness and love of blue to talk about a specific event. There is great "showing" rather than "telling" in this book. This section ties everything together. She was drawn in by the book because the title included the word "blue," she then put the book back on the shelf when she read that it was about how women face depression, and then she orders that same book online months later. The reader gets a sense of the shift in her self-perception over the period of time as she later identifies herself as needing the book that she earlier rejected. She follows this with a story about going to a Brooklyn hospital and explains the idea that women can endure, but should not have to endure, more pain than men. We get the description of what's going on, but she constantly responds to what she is observing with her thoughts. I kept getting a clearer understanding of her situation as she contextualized with examples and thoughts.