#BeginsWith @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
I remember seeing a lot about this book when it was first released. I picked it up at a used bookstore and it's been neglected on my shelves ever since.
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Sugar Run: A Novel | 
#BeginsWith @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
I remember seeing a lot about this book when it was first released. I picked it up at a used bookstore and it's been neglected on my shelves ever since.
pickI heard Mesha Marin speak at TX Book Fest last October and was drawn to her book description. The hooks for me: takes place in Appalachia- specifically WV, lesbian MC just released from 18 years served in prison returning home.
This was my March #Bookspin
Jodi‘s troubled past, essentially growing up in prison, poor life choices both before and after. Tendency towards addiction and obsession. It all rang true.
Even though the novel kind of lost me towards the end, I enjoyed listening to the author today and appreciated her taking the time to talk about the writing process!
so-soThe first half of this I was super into. It started to drag out a little in the middle and then left me wanting a little more detail in the end.
Perfect fall day! Finally! 🙏🍂🍁
Mesha Maren and Chantelle Benz talked about the sense of place in their books, specifically rural America. I am interested in reading both of their books.
#TXBookFest2019
Got this yesterday when at the #RVABookFestival with @Owlizabeth. Today is the perfect rainy reading day!
so-soAnother one that I powered through recently. Again, another tough subject due to LGBTQ relationships, a crime, and the survival of a unit with kids and trying to find a place and a sense of belonging. There was some positive notes to this, but it felt rushed, disjointed and sadly disappointing. I would have #DNF‘ed it, but something forced me to keep going. 3⭐️😕 #recentlyread #nospoilers
so-soJodi is released from prison as the book opens. She returns home, but picks up Miranda and her sons along the way. The story flashes back and forth between the past, where we learn why Jodi killed her former lover, and the present. The past doesn‘t really seem to impact the myriad issues she faces once she‘s released, however, so I‘m not sure what that aspect added to the story. The ending was a bit of a let down, too. 3⭐️ #Hoopla
There was something unspoken, she thought, a kind of proprietary confidence and ease that parents and children seemed to carry with them. The way these four people could make this room home in a matter of minutes, claiming the space and settling in, so self-contained that the world outside seemed unnecessary
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pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The chapters flit between the pasts & melded present of Miranda, an on/off drug addict, mother of 3, and estranged wife of washed up musician, Lee Golden- and Jodi, a recently released convict, thrown into jail as a minor where she stayed for 18 years. Slowly the truth of what led Jodi to kill in 1989 is shown, how her involvement with Paula ruined her, & how she hides it from Miranda, her new lover, will likely lead to her/their demise.
This is sort of last minute Louie but any #NCLittens or #Charlotte Litten want to join me tonight? It‘s a free event. I‘ll be there regardless.
Not actually from this book, but it could be. It‘s from Mesha Maren‘s story in the most recent Oxford American and I feel it deep in my soul.
Finished my 4th book this month. Overall, I was happy with averaging about 1 book a week. Here is my overall ranking:
1. A Woman is No Man
2. Sugar Run
3. Beautiful Bad
4. The Bookshop of Yesterdays
I guess I prefer the soul-crushing books to the sappy, heartfelt ones.
Bring it on April! ☂️🌷📚🔖
Yay Friday! Thanks for this fun topic @Samplergal
1. We are having homemade mac and cheese tonight! 😋
2. I'm reading Sugar Run and hope to finish it this weekend
3. My goal is 4.. I need to get through some of my #BOTM backlog
#fridayfun #spring #booksandfood
pickA woman gets out of prison after more then half her life. She goes looking for someone left behind and the land of her grandmother. Along the way she builds a found-family and gets into some trouble.
Road Trip! 🚙
I love being a passenger because it means I can read. I‘m so happy that I don‘t get motion sickness.
Had the pleasure of listening to Mesha Maren speak about her novel, Sugar Run, this evening and was excited to also get the opportunity to have my copy signed.
Going to give this a shot. First part was a little meh but hoping this picks up soon.
I was deleting pics from my camera and I came across this glaring error that COMPLETELY took me out of this otherwise really great novel. You only crochet with one needle. Knitting is two. You could make the argument that the POV character doesn‘t know the difference but I do and it bothers me so much.
pickJodi is released from prison and is left to fend for herself in rural West Virginia. She gets together with a young mother of three and goes on a quest to rescue the brother of her former lover, while fighting to hold onto her grandparents' land. .
I was sent a galley at the end of 2018 and included it in a round of speed dating that is discussed on Episode 135 of the Reading Envy Podcast. I'm glad I went back to it.
pickI think my favourite books are the ones that end badly. Where maybe nothing goes right and it‘s painful for the characters and for you too. This book hurts, and I loved every minute I got to spend with it.
Finishing this up for tonight's event with the author! Despite it being winter, it is a gorgeous 72° here in VA!
pickMaren's novel--which I listened to on @scribd--is stunning. Jodi, who was imprisoned at 17, is released when she's in her early 30s. She returns to her WV home to find that her grandmother's land has been sold and any hope that she can dive back into a sense of normalcy is lost. (Continued in comments)
Started my first #audiobook of February ! Mesha Maren is coming to the bookstore that I work at for an event. Only a few chapters in, but digging it so far!
First book of #24in48 I‘m getting a late start so I might not make it but let‘s go.
Just picked up some holds at the library. Got my latte and I‘m ready to dive in. Anyone else reading this one?
《《2019 releases I am looking forward to reading》》 A tense, atmospheric Southern noir spiked with queer themes, Sugar Run weaves between two timelines in its depiction of Jodi, a woman just finishing an 18-year prison sentence.
▪Release Date: January 8th 2019
Anxiety is flaring up today (YAY LOVE THAT LOVE EVERYTHING), but this book is strangely calming. It‘s different from what I normally read (kudos to reading challenges for pushing me), but the language is beautiful, like sliding into a hot bath and feeling it warm you down into your bones.
Beautiful writing about issues I care about. I look forward to Maren‘s next book. Fewer pills, please. #imnotaprudebutdamn
pickI tried the new shortbread latte at Starbucks then rushed home to finish this book. I loooooooved it! Loved the setting and the time period and the cast of people. Yay yay yay.
Listening to jazzy #Christmas music and getting organized before the day‘s activities. Happy day to those who celebrate. #coffee
panJust not for me. When I have to flip back and forth to keep track of characters and who is who, it‘s never a good sign. 2⭐️
so-soI liked how this novel centered women who are a product of their circumstances without making excuses for their actions. Maren keeps the perspective objective, unsentimental and without judgment, similarly to The Mars Room. That said, there was something that kept me from ever becoming fully invested in these characters. There‘s not a lot of narrative tension, and I wasn‘t always convinced by the main characters‘ choices and interactions.
