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“I kind of wonder what it feels like to love something so much that you’re even happy to fail at it.”

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

May 28, 2018 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I was thrilled to hear Julie Murphy wrote a sequel to Dumplin’ and picked up a copy as soon as my library got it in.  I definitely had high expectations but, unfortunately, I also had very little knowledge about what the sequel was about so I was a bit let down to realize Willlowdean was relegated to a barely mentioned side character. If you are a big fan of Dumplin’ then I recommend going into Puddin’ with the mindset that it is not a sequel but rather its own standalone novel that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: dumplin, julie murphy, puddin

Caitlin_D's CBR10 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: dumplin, julie murphy, puddin ·
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She had me at Dolly Parton.

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

February 12, 2018 by chatelaine 1 Comment

Dumplin’, whose real name is Willowdean, is a smart, kind, capable, funny, and fat (her term) 16-year-old in small-town Texas. Being sixteen is sucky enough, am I right?!, but the “fat” part causes even more trouble than one would expect for Dumplin’ since her mom is the local pageant queen-turned-pageant director, still living on her own pageant days, staying thin to fit in a 30-year-old dress. She was herself once Miss Teen Blue Bonnet and you better believe that’s a big effin’ deal in Clover […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, dumplin, Fiction, julie murphy, pageants, Teenagers, Texas, Young Adult

chatelaine's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, dumplin, Fiction, julie murphy, pageants, Teenagers, Texas, Young Adult ·
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Feeling Blue

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

January 9, 2018 by Melina 1 Comment

Ramona lives in Eulogy, Mississippi with her dad and her pregnant sister in a trailer.  The trailer was supposed to be a place for them to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Katrina.  However, lives don’t just miraculously piece themselves back together and money doesn’t grow on trees and sometimes, moms can’t handle reality and leave. So now 12 years later, Ramona works hard to keep her family afloat.  Fiercely protective of them and constantly worried about their future, she seems to think of her own as a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, dumplin, julie murphy, Melina, Ramona Blue, Sexuality, YA lit

Melina's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, dumplin, julie murphy, Melina, Ramona Blue, Sexuality, YA lit ·
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“I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about – what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.”

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

January 1, 2018 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

Back in 2016, the CBR hivemind recommended Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. I tore through it and adored it, and thought that Julie Murphy had the potential to be a great voice in modern, southern YA. She wrote about rural southern life so vividly, and made even the most uncomfortable topics easy to digest. Ramona Blue is her follow up novel, and I’m happy to report that it’s just as good as Dumplin’. Ramona (who has blue hair, but is called Ramona Blue because of her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, dumplin, julie murphy, Ramona Blue, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, dumplin, julie murphy, Ramona Blue, Scootsa1000 ·
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Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-leeene

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

December 3, 2016 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I had a really shit week, and Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’ got me through it. Strong but vulnerable teenage girls, daring adventures, Dolly Parton, good looking boys, and really good writing took me away from most of my woes. The stinky farts after my dog got into some garbage were inescapable.     Willowdean, known as Will to most, and Dumplin’ to her mother is growing up in a small town in west Texas. Will is fat. It bothers her mother, a former beauty queen who runs […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: dumplin, julie murphy

Emmalita's CBR8 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: dumplin, julie murphy ·
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

September 24, 2016 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Willowdean “Will” Dickson is a teenager in a small town in Texas, with nothing much to recommend it, except being home of the oldest beauty pageant in the state (possibly the country, I don’t remember). The Miss Teen Bluebonnet is a big deal and Will’s mother’s biggest claim to fame is that she won it when she was young, and still fits into the evening dress she wore. She now wears it every year, as she presents the pageant. Will is not skinny […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR8, contemporary fiction, dumplin, friendship, julie murphy, Malin, small town life, Young Adult

Malin's CBR8 Review No:105 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: CBR8, contemporary fiction, dumplin, friendship, julie murphy, Malin, small town life, Young Adult ·
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