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 Wow. I've had this book on my desk for some time now. I've been a little swamped with all the reading that I have to do, so I haven't had a chance to open it til now. I don't even recall now, how I heard of this, but I'm glad that I finally got to it.

Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up in a hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. This first-person ( Read more... )

I goofed. Honestly, sometimes I am just too, too disorganized, or too busy or just plain dunderheaded. I just realized today that I did not post a comment about _What They Always Tell Us_ even though I listed it on my "to blog" post when I returned from vacation.

Pair this title with David Levithan's _Are We There Yet?_ for readers who are ( Read more... )

There's a lot to love in this slim debut novel. The prose is often lyrical and the imagery is quite vivid. M and O, aka Marianne and Opal, aka Mlapo and Omali have been best friends forever. Both were essentially raised by O's grandmother as O's parents are loving, but absent. Her father is a long-distance trucker and her mother is a would-be ( Read more... )