A book that has been very, very incorrectly filed under romance. Plot: Lily grew up in a violent household, but now she’s out in the world as a young adult, trying to create a life that is her own, and as different from her youth as possible. By chance she meets a good looking doctor in training and despite his initial aversion to relationships, is suddenly all in. Then there’s her first love, a boy who had escaped an abusive household himself, to live on […]

This book brings to mind the concept of “trash relativism” – the idea that while some books have greater literary merit (better writing, depth of themes, strong character development, etc) not everyone reads books for those literary reasons. A lot of people read just to escape, or share in a minor distraction with mild entertainment, and the quality of the writing just isn’t that important. And those are really valuable reasons to read a book. It feels relevant to bring this up in a discussion […]