pickThis was a good one. I am excited to talk about it with my book club. I love stories of girlhood, especially liked how it was told in “we”
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Brutes: A Novel | 
pickThis was a good one. I am excited to talk about it with my book club. I love stories of girlhood, especially liked how it was told in “we”
pickA low pick. I had high hopes for this one and it started out strong, but some of the threads didn‘t carry through for me. I liked pieces of the story and I think Tate did a good job of capturing the agony of being a teenage girl in many ways.
panA group of young girls grapple with the disappearance of the local preacher‘s daughter.
Lurking ✨ Loss of Innocence ✨ Blurry
For fans of The Diary of a Teenage Girl
pickThis is between a pick and a so-so for me but I‘m going to be kind as it‘s #abookbyafirsttimeauthor #pop23.
Every review I read compared this to The Virgin Suicides and I can see why, with its chorus of young teenagers speaking in the plural first person. It has a real sense of place in steamy Florida, which I loved. However the individual more recent stories of the women didn‘t connect for me, and actually distracted from the underlying ⬇️
panNot as seasonal read, but the first finish of my #WinterReadathon! 15 points
I‘m sure it must be me, not the book. While others have found the writing “poetic”, I found it an incoherent mess with little plot. The first person plural narration an was interesting technique, but the chapters on each of the group in later life served no purpose. There may be a decent short story here, but as a novel it really didn‘t work for me
