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Bookwormish, 3rd quarter of 2018
Oct. 7th, 2018 11:37 amTOP BOOKS:
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia – A wonderful story about a girl who keeps her offline life (quiet, friendless, and she likes it that way) and her online life (famous but anonymous creator of a webcomic) determinedly separate. Until they collide. It’s also about anxiety in a way that feels real, and a developing romance but in a way that doesn’t feel like the usual clichés. I really loved this.
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos – I read a lot of YA books about kids with anxiety and/or depression (for obvious reasons of self-identification) and I swear this is one of the best I’ve read. It’s real and complicated and wonderfully written and funny, too. Highly recommended.
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit – The brilliant Rebecca Solnit, continuing to tackle some of the most important topics of our times with incisive intelligence and compassion.
The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin – Jemisin’s trilogy is intense, epic in scale and theme, and something I’ll be thinking about for a while. I think I actually need to reread book 3, because there’s just so much in there.
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden – An important, early book in the LGBTQ+ YA canon. The book itself was great, but it was the author’s afterword that moved me to tears, where she talks about her own youth, and how there wasn’t anything like this book (lesbian teen protagonist AND a happy ending), so she wrote it.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – A painful book about the complete and brutal destruction of a young Black girl’s self-image.
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro – As always, Ishiguro is writing about memory, the past, and how we grapple with it. But this book, more than others of his, moved me with the personal story between the main protagonists: amidst the epic events of a country in turmoil is the small but powerful story of an elderly couple who have little left but their unbreakable love for each other.
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman – Yes, I fell for both the movie and the book… Aciman is wow, such a writer. This is one of those books that’s so deep inside the narrator’s thoughts, you wonder that anyone even dared to try to make it into a film. It’s a beautifully written, in-depth examination of a young person not only in the process of falling in love, but also growing into who he himself is.
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Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia – A wonderful story about a girl who keeps her offline life (quiet, friendless, and she likes it that way) and her online life (famous but anonymous creator of a webcomic) determinedly separate. Until they collide. It’s also about anxiety in a way that feels real, and a developing romance but in a way that doesn’t feel like the usual clichés. I really loved this.
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos – I read a lot of YA books about kids with anxiety and/or depression (for obvious reasons of self-identification) and I swear this is one of the best I’ve read. It’s real and complicated and wonderfully written and funny, too. Highly recommended.
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit – The brilliant Rebecca Solnit, continuing to tackle some of the most important topics of our times with incisive intelligence and compassion.
The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin – Jemisin’s trilogy is intense, epic in scale and theme, and something I’ll be thinking about for a while. I think I actually need to reread book 3, because there’s just so much in there.
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden – An important, early book in the LGBTQ+ YA canon. The book itself was great, but it was the author’s afterword that moved me to tears, where she talks about her own youth, and how there wasn’t anything like this book (lesbian teen protagonist AND a happy ending), so she wrote it.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – A painful book about the complete and brutal destruction of a young Black girl’s self-image.
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro – As always, Ishiguro is writing about memory, the past, and how we grapple with it. But this book, more than others of his, moved me with the personal story between the main protagonists: amidst the epic events of a country in turmoil is the small but powerful story of an elderly couple who have little left but their unbreakable love for each other.
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman – Yes, I fell for both the movie and the book… Aciman is wow, such a writer. This is one of those books that’s so deep inside the narrator’s thoughts, you wonder that anyone even dared to try to make it into a film. It’s a beautifully written, in-depth examination of a young person not only in the process of falling in love, but also growing into who he himself is.
( MORE GOOD BOOKS )
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