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“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

March 28, 2019 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I struggled with this book for quite a while. For reasons I now don’t remember I believed this book to be a graphic novel and had filed it as such as a different task for Read Harder challenge than I eventually recorded it under. Then, once I began reading it for what it truly was, I found myself struggling through the chapters. Marin the protagonist is in such a low place, and Nina LaCour writes it so well that I felt myself being pulled under […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: faintingviolet, nina lacour, read harder challenge, reading women, We are Okay, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: faintingviolet, nina lacour, read harder challenge, reading women, We are Okay, we need diverse books ·
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“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren’t ready.”

May 30, 2017 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

I’ve been somewhat slow with my reviews lately, mostly because the books that I’ve been reading have taken me a bit of time to process. In fact, I’m not quite sure I’m done figuring them out yet. I first saw We are Okay at the library on the new YA shelf. The cover drew me in, it had those same dreamy pinks and blues as the Paper Girls cover, and it just looked so familiar to me. Going in to read it, I had no […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr9, nina lacour, Scootsa1000, We are Okay

scootsa1000's CBR9 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr9, nina lacour, Scootsa1000, We are Okay ·
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