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The Heart Principle grabbed mine and didn’t let go

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

December 29, 2022 by teresaelectro 4 Comments

Helen Hoang’s The Heart Principle was everything I wanted and more. Our heroine Anna Sun is going through it. She is a violinist stuck in a loop after a performance video goes viral on YouTube. With every practice session, she wants to replicate that moment with precision. She ends up burned out and unable to finish the song. She is attempting therapy to find a breakthrough. Later that day, her boyfriend asks to “see other people” as an excuse to know that he’s ready to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: autism, autistic voices, grief, Helen Hoang, Mental Health, musician, Own voices, San Francisco, The Heart Principle, The Kiss Quotient #3, violin

teresaelectro's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: autism, autistic voices, grief, Helen Hoang, Mental Health, musician, Own voices, San Francisco, The Heart Principle, The Kiss Quotient #3, violin ·
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book cover with girl under red duvet, lying on a pile of catholic funeral prayer cards

“On her First Holy Communion, Majella could remember sitting in the chapel for a long time, with Jesus stuck to the roof of her mouth, and her trying to peel him off with her tongue. Somehow she knew picking him off with her finger was all wrong.”

Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

January 16, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Majella is the queen of coping; she has developed a system of avoiding eye contact, she gladly relies on years-long joke exchanges orchestrated by her customers and coworkers, and she is clear about people explaining idioms and small-town customs to her as a needed relief. She is also coping with the world around her; her uncle “died for the cause”, her IRA-adjacent father disappeared years ago, her mother is lost in a haze of whiskey, and her beloved grandmother has recently been beaten to death. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: autistic voices, chip shop, ennui, irish literature, Michelle Gallen, neurodiverse narrator, Northern Ireland, slice of life, small town life, The Troubles, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: autistic voices, chip shop, ennui, irish literature, Michelle Gallen, neurodiverse narrator, Northern Ireland, slice of life, small town life, The Troubles, trauma ·
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Recent Comments

  • ingres77 on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.Oh, good! That sounds interesting, thanks.
  • Merryn on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.Yes, it's a discussion about the book, not an audiobook version of the book itself.
  • ingres77 on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.I think I saw that when I searched for Jane Austen podcasts. They don't read the book? Only discuss it?
  • Merryn on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.Persuasion is my favourite. The most recent adaptation is not very accurate in tone or characterisation, and I wouldn't recommend to a new Austen reader....
  • Merryn on Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.The Hot and Bothered podcast just did a season on Pride and Prejudice. Each episode unpacks a couple of chapters, with guests expanding on the...
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