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“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.”

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

August 21, 2020 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

Holy hell. Did this book make me forget about quarantine and the hell that is our lives in this country right now. I guess there’s nothing better for misery than reading about people that have it worse than you, and that they have no one to blame but themselves. This book was insane. I hated pretty much every single character (INCLUDING CHILDREN), and yet couldn’t put it down. From the opening quote, I knew I was in for a ridiculous story: There is so tantalizing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book club, Bruce Holsinger, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Scootsa1000, the gifted school

scootsa1000's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: book club, Bruce Holsinger, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Scootsa1000, the gifted school ·
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The Gifted School, by Bruce Holsinger

The greatest stakes are often the lowest

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

September 14, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

10 second pitch: What if Liane Moriarty wrote the Varsity Blues scandal, but for middle school? I swallowed this book whole, staying up until an inadvisable time in the evening (on a school night!) to read it in one gulp. It was so good, right up until it wasn’t. Rose, Samantha, Azra, and Lauren have been friends since they met in an infant swim class when their babies were babies. They’re by turns supportive and competitive, little power struggles creating fault lines in their friendships. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bruce Holsinger

J's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bruce Holsinger ·
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