I was worried about this one since a big plot point is a young lesbian falling in love with her male friend and I wasn’t sure I’d appreciate sexuality being treated as a plot point. It seems like a lot of other people had similar fears and, instead of reading the book like I chose to, flooded Goodreads with 1 Star reviews out of spite. I hope some of these people decide to pick Ramona Blue up anyway because I think Murphy did an excellent job of navigating […]
“A lot of people want their first kiss to be special. I just wanted mine to be during this lifetime…”
The synopsis of Josh Sunquist’s memoir was cute enough to catch my attention: man looks back through his relationship history full of non-starters and tries to get answers about why it took him until his early-twenties to have a real girlfriend. Josh is a retired Paralympic skier who is now a motivational speaker. What I didn’t realize was Josh Sunquist is the amputee bad-ass that pops up on my timeline every Halloween! He was also completely useless with women as a teen and young adult. […]
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
I somehow managed to make it 30 years without reading A Wrinkle in Time. I was certain I had read it before, how could I not have, but the story didn’t seem familiar while I was reading. However, it did make me nostalgic to reread Phantom Tollbooth now. A brief summary (since everyone will be writing about this book in the upcoming two weeks): Meg Murry, her baby brother Charles Wallace, and their neighbor Calvin are sent on a journey through time and space by […]
He opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.”
Elizabeth Strout takes her background characters from My Name is Lucy Barton and brings them to the forefront in these interconnected short stories. You don’t need to have read Lucy Barton to understand and enjoy Anything is Possible but I do think it will help flesh out some of these essays. Lucy, who doesn’t narrate any of these stories, left her small town and eventually became a writer in New York. Several of these stories connect back to Lucy who has a memoir published in […]
“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.”
This wasn’t very good. Oh, I have to keep going? “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.” Lydia Lee, the prodigal daughter of James & Marilyn, goes missing at the beginning of the book and we quickly discover she has died. James, a Chinese immigrant teacher, and Marilyn, a white former medical student, have thrust a lot of their lost desires on […]
“The wolfes were safe, but there would be blood. Blood for Blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. Salvation, damnation, salvation, damnation.”
Spoilers for Wolf by Wolf. “Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have to wash human ash from their garden strawberries. Monsters are the ones who watch other people do these things and do nothing to stop it.” The events of this series take place in a world where Hitler won WWII and the Third Reich is still in power. Yael is a Jewish teenager who, through painful experimentation in a concentration […]
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