![]() I also enjoyed reading about Ike and Bobby. ![]() Ultimately, they figure out how to make a little family and the brothers aren’t so lonely anymore and neither is Victoria. They are absolutely mystified by the teenager and constantly fretting that they’re doing something wrong. Although socially awkward, they’re kind and decent and just what Victoria needs. The brothers had been isolated on their cattle ranch since high school, mostly keeping company with each other. I particularly liked the story line about Victoria and the McPheron brothers. In another story line, young brothers Ike and Bobby Guthrie are quietly struggling when their mother abandons them while their father, Tom, tries to move on with his life. Elderly, lifelong bachelors, Harold and Raymond Mcpheron, take her in. In one, 17-year-old Victoria is pregnant and her mother kicked her out of the house. There are three or four main story lines. It’s the kind of book that I mostly liked, but I have a hard time understanding why. Plainsong takes place in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, and mostly chronicles the lives of some of the residents in a very direct but poignant way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Cristina, I agree it did remind me of Fallen Crest High. Could not put it down and focus on anything else. □ My “reactions” while reading “Paper Princess” by Erin Watt (aka Elle Kennedy & Jen Frederick) YUP!!! They wrote it! From the witty, feisty heroine, to the brooding and and downright bully- ish brothers that she’s now stuck with, you will be hooked right from the start, and you’ll want to read it straight through. It’s just… this is the kind of series that gives you all of the guilty-pleasure thrills and furious-feels. I mean it’s not out-of-your-mind crazy or totally shocking-forbidden (even though it does have a few forbidden-y touches for sure). ![]() And now looking over my favorite parts, and my notes, I pretty much highlighted the whole thing! LOL!!! In fact, “cliffhanger ending” or not, if book #2 was out right now, I’d already be reading it. Paper Princess: A Novel (The Royals Book 1)Īll of the angsty/bully/bad-boy/Cinderella-story/OH-NO-HE-DIDN’T moments an unconventional romance loving girl could ever hope for! Oh my my my, my friends… this was SO fun. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Disinformation had also been paramount during the period I was writing about-the Holodomor in Ukraine.” Living through her middle-grade son’s pandemic experiences, Marsh found a new character emerging: 13-year-old Matthew of Leonia, N.J. A lot of the country hadn’t gotten to that point yet, and I was struck by the amount of disinformation that was quickly emerging. “Early on in the pandemic,” she said, “there was an apocalyptic feeling, living in isolation and fear and watching news on television about the New York area, where I had grown up. She began drafting a multi-perspective story of three Ukrainian cousins in the 1930s: two in Ukraine and one in Depression-era Brooklyn.Ī few months later, adjusting to life during Covid in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children, her thoughts about the story she was telling began to expand. Talking over coffee and bagels at Zabar’s in New York City with her editor Jen Besser, Marsh decided it was time. Aware that few people knew about this genocide, she felt in possession of a secret history, which she had always wanted to write about. Growing up from age five in a three-generation household in Yonkers, N.Y., with her maternal grandmother, who emigrated from that country in 1928, she heard a lot about the Holodomor (“death by hunger”) imposed by Stalin in the 1930s. When Katherine Marsh set out to write her sixth novel for young readers in late 2019, she planned to finally tackle her Ukrainian family history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist – an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want-money, women, fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Jessie’s mother also reveals a shocking truth about the outside world, and what, where, and when Clifton is. Then Jessie’s mother tells her that only Jessie can help-by leaving Clifton. And if they don’t act soon, some of those sick children could die. One night, she tells Jessie that it’s a diphtheria outbreak-a dangerous disease. Quarantine signs appear on the local homes. Especially the other kids in Jessie’s one-room schoolhouse. Lately, more and more people have been falling ill. Her father is a blacksmith and her mother cares for her and her siblings-though, at night, Jessie’s mother also secretly tends anyone who gets sick in their village. ![]() Jessie Keyser lives with her family in a small log cabin. Return to the classic middle grade time-bending thriller Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, almost thirty years following its first publication, with this stunning repackage. ![]() |