Book reviews!
I just realized that (for a change), I've been pretty good at tracking my books read so far this year in my GoodReads account. I've even been trying to put little reviews in there.
Why anyone would care about my reviews, I have no idea. But I know that I read other people's, so.
So I guess I'll start crossposting them when I write them.
25. As Cool As I Am, Peter Fromm
Sad. Surprisingly sad. There was something really aching about all of this. I rarely read female main characters (I would hesitate to call Lucy a protagonist) written by men - they're generally awful. But this book was set in the town that my grandparents live in, the town 30 miles from where I spent my summers and where my parents grew up. And there are painfully few contemporary books set in Montana.
Pete's narrative voice of Lucy makes a lot of sense to me as a girl that grew up lonely and weird in a small town in Montana. I didn't have Lucy's absentee parents (her father physically gone, her mother emotionally), but I did have the Weird Kid thing. It makes me wonder what my choices would have been if I'd had parents who were less involved in my life and if I were more traditionally pretty.
A pretty damn good book. Flawed in places and I was bothered by how a sexual assault in the book was dealt with, but I have to remember that the narrator is an unreliable narrator. She isn't doing What Is Right or being an example, she's just a fucked up kid trying to figure things out.
Grade: B
Why anyone would care about my reviews, I have no idea. But I know that I read other people's, so.
So I guess I'll start crossposting them when I write them.
25. As Cool As I Am, Peter Fromm
Sad. Surprisingly sad. There was something really aching about all of this. I rarely read female main characters (I would hesitate to call Lucy a protagonist) written by men - they're generally awful. But this book was set in the town that my grandparents live in, the town 30 miles from where I spent my summers and where my parents grew up. And there are painfully few contemporary books set in Montana.
Pete's narrative voice of Lucy makes a lot of sense to me as a girl that grew up lonely and weird in a small town in Montana. I didn't have Lucy's absentee parents (her father physically gone, her mother emotionally), but I did have the Weird Kid thing. It makes me wonder what my choices would have been if I'd had parents who were less involved in my life and if I were more traditionally pretty.
A pretty damn good book. Flawed in places and I was bothered by how a sexual assault in the book was dealt with, but I have to remember that the narrator is an unreliable narrator. She isn't doing What Is Right or being an example, she's just a fucked up kid trying to figure things out.
Grade: B