pan⭐️ blech! I hated this book! Not one redeeming character. Maybe Peter, but that‘s it. I‘m not offended at all@by some T matter when handled well. This failed in all levels. Like the protagonist needing to make a voice, the author should have chosen to write crudely or lovely prose but not both, it was jarring to the reader. Why didn‘t she get therapy and learn her feelings were trauma bonding it would have saved us all from@this.
pickThis is my third novel by Young this year. She is now amongst my auto buy authors. She gets the atmosphere just right. Her stories are set in worlds I want to live in, small close knit towns. Nature is an integral charcter.
pickThere wasn‘t anything especially surprising for me in this story of public school girl getting the opportunity to attend an elite private school with a secret society, but it was a fun listen for today.
#MiddleGrade #audiobook #TRS2025
pickThis is YA novel about Colt and Julia, two teens from opposite ends of the social/financial spectrum who embark on a secret relationships is well-written but doesn‘t really end up going anywhere. Light pick.
pickWhat a powerful novel! My book club had a fascinating discussion. It‘s about a single dad raising his 3 children on a remote island. He‘s the caretaker for the research base that is tasked with preserving the world‘s seeds. On the island and on the mainland, climate changes are rampant. At the start of the book a barely-alive woman washes up on shore, disrupting their isolation. Alternates between hope and despair with poetic language.
pickI read this book because Lidija Hilje recommended it and I loved her book Slanting Towards the Sea. The Paper Palace is a love story, just like Slanting, but not as good.
Elle is staying with her husband and kids at Cape Cod. As always Jonas is there too, with his own family. They used to love each other but never really were together. This year everything changes and Elle has a tough choice to make.
An enjoyable read and a light pick.
#WeeklyForecast 44/52
My reading has been slow lately, I‘ve had way too little time! I am reading and enjoying the tagged book though and have just started The Barbizon.
The Beauvoir memoir is one I‘ve been interested in for a long time and I hope to finally read it now!
Thanks to @BennettBookworm and @ChaoticMissAdventures I‘ve made my list for #10BeforetheEnd and I‘m so excited! Really, it‘s the act of list-making that gives me this boost of confidence, like just by committing them to paper I‘m *almost* finished reading these 10 books already. 😋 Six are for book clubs taking place at my bookstore, so I‘d better get on that! Enjoy your lists, everyone!
After the events of We Were Liars, one of the adults shares a secret story from her past.
I kept going back & forth while reading this, trying to decide whether it added meaningfully to WWL or perhaps took away from it. (In making explicit something that could be read as ambiguous.) In the end, though I think it was too much of a retread of the first book, it had enough to say to make it a pick. It didn't touch my heart in the same way.
