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Monoceros is a bit obscure and considering that it centers around suicide, I had expected it to have more of an emotional tone than it did. I found it readable, but not particularly impactful or memorable. 2.5⭐️

This was my #BookSpin pick for March and my #Alberta book for #ReadCanada. I worked with the author at a literary festival, so my copy is signed and personalized to me, but I won‘t be holding onto it 🤷‍♀️

Here is my #BookSpinBingo board for March! My #BookSpin is the tagged book, while my #DoubleSpin is The World That We Knew. I‘ve been putting both of them off for some unknown reason, so I‘m glad I have this little push to make me read them! Here‘s to another great month of reading ahead! 💕📚

#ReadCanada #Alberta
It is with regret that I decided to end this #AudioBook this morning. The story seems interesting, but I am unable to let myself be carried away by the narrator's jerky and borderline aggressive tone 🤷🏻‍♀️This is a though book; bullying, homophobia and suicide are at its core. I will try to read it in a paper format later on, in the hopes of using my own rhythm and intonation, in order to enjoy it.

Clearly with the suicide topic it is not going to be a happy book but it is a good book. I really liked the characters. I think people feel more real when they are flawed, have bad qualities as well as good. I like how the different characters process the suicide differently and I like how you can see the flaws in the school system in dealing with the suicide and with LGBTQ people. It does this without being preachy like an essay.

This nutso book starts off with the suicide of a bullied gay youth but has more to do with it's effects on the people whose viewpoints you read. The girl who bullied him, his secret lover, his parents, but then there's a drag queen, and the secret homosexual lovers, the counselor and the principal. What you thought was gonna be heartfelt was this story of how these humans all failed each other...and I hate to say this, it was entertaining. 👇🏼

Accidentally serendipitous #bookmail today! The Phoebe and Her Unicorn activity book was a preorder for my daughter and Monoceros is totally to the credit of @Lindy 🦄🦄

I finally got to tune in to this wonderful episode of the @ReadingEnvy podcast with @Lindy as a guest! Lindy, you did such a fabulous job! The whole episode is a delight with some stellar book recommendations and an engaging conversation—I highly recommend giving it a listen.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-envy/id804271884?mt=2&i=100039213859...

Also a gift in today's mail from @Lindy ! Does it ever look intriguing! 😍😍

Her voice too shrill, the control seeping away, she coughs again, these students make her sick!
Mrs Mochinski crosses her arms over her copy of Romeo and Juliet. She wants to go home and pour herself a salad-bowl-sized glass of wine.

Until Faraday settles into her desk & the news about Patrick['s suicide] whacks her between the eyes, all she can think about is the tuft of evil frizz above her ear that day, what a toolshed her brother George is, hiding her straightening iron & not giving it back no matter how much she shrieks, & how she's finally going to buy that brocade bag after school & if someone else has already bought that perfect bag she will kill herself. She will.