Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control | But this one got me deeply invested |
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What made me attached to this character was how I saw her grow up from a little orphan girl, witnessing her from the first chess game all the way to the end and everything in between | Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA |
Had me in tears too.
8I was rooting for her | By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U |
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Nine year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable | But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting |
I was enthralled, inspired, moved, proud.
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