As I said in last night’s reviews, I have been listening to a lot of YA audiobooks on my commute and next up is All the Bright Places which nearly brought me to tears as I took my exit Friday morning. Trigger warning for suicide. “It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on […]

So, here I am, more than a month after finishing this novel, trying to write a review.  Sigh. First of all, I enjoyed reading this YA outing, as much as you can enjoy a novel where one of the main characters is bipolar but doesn’t seem to fully understand what that means.  It’s the story of two very different teenagers, trying to survive high school but for very different reasons.  Finch is the classic loner, obsessed with death, smart but unable to fully follow the […]