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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

September 14, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith Leave a Comment

Oh no. Oh nooo. It’s a series. Those were my exact words upon doing a cursory Google search prior to starting this review. In prepping to tear into The Rosie Project, I learned that there are two follow-ups that I don’t think my morbid curiosity will let me not read. To answer my previous question of if I’m a masochist: yes. Why else would I suffer through multiple seasons of dreadful Dexter and Archer simply because I’d already devoted so many years of my time to the shows? Why […]

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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

September 7, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

Abelard and Lily are both neurodivergent. Abelard has Asperger’s and Lily has ADHD. Abelard fixes things and Lily destroys them. After an awkward kiss, a trip to detention and with the aid of a worn copy The Letters of Abelard and Heloise the two fall hard for each other. I thought of Abelard, under the same anxious impulse to touch everything in the world of the here and now that we could feel with our hands. But unlike me, he was thinking about the hidden […]

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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

May 26, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

This is one of those strange little books that I found reaffirmed my belief in the idea of being true to yourself. There are a lot of platitudes about that concept, mostly Disney-fied or Rom-Comish in execution, and those platitudes always ring hollow to me. They seem sacharine, or manipulative, or frustratingly narrow in execution. What Sayaka Murata offers in Convenience Store Woman is a character so out of synch with the rest of her society, but so in synch with the world of her […]

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Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

May 19, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I downloaded Mockingbird from the library the other day, not really realizing that it was a YA book – actually it’s a middle grade book – until I was in to it, and by then, I was in to it, and couldn’t put it down. In fact, I finished it within a couple of days, even sneaking in a few minutes here and there at work. It grabbed me from the first page and didn’t let go. It also broke my heart. Ten year old […]

wicherwill on thank you to my friend EvinThe characters also don't really do the fantasy bits--they begrudgingly put up with the weird, which is why I was struggling with whether this counts...
LittlePlat on Complain about lack of standalone fantasy and then complain when I find oneI have been meaning to get a copy of this as well - Kingfisher is a delight. And I'm glad you've pointed out there's adult-adult...
Emmalita on “Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”We jusssst opened it up.
LittlePlat on “Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”How was I not aware of this? (Also, still getting the hang of discord - I had to get one of our students to show...
LittlePlat on “Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”I loved that you picked up so many other things the second time around. And would kill to be able to read a Muir penned...

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