Just keep reading.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kat - Oct 05, 2013 5:03:28 pm PDT #21492 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara - Oct 05, 2013 5:05:26 pm PDT #21493 of 28370
I definitely hear you, Amy. That's how I felt for most of the book.
Amy - Oct 05, 2013 5:07:10 pm PDT #21494 of 28370
Because books.
I forgot to come back! I finished it! And sobbed.
I will say I think for all the detail and emotional intimacy of the first 90% of the book, the ending felt a little rushed. She could have actually explained if E.'s mom and the other kids were with her at the uncle's house, or just away from Richie, but she made up for it with the line about the postcard and the three words .
Kat - Oct 05, 2013 6:33:20 pm PDT #21495 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The ending is definitely crushing. Yes, rushed. I assumed that mom and kids made it to Minneapolis. So good!
Amy - Oct 05, 2013 6:54:36 pm PDT #21496 of 28370
Because books.
I'm going to try her adult novel, Attachments, too.
I was packing up some book earlier and found two of my old Normal Klein YAs, circa 1977 and 1979. They both startled me with how sexually frank they were, and yet, I remember reading them at the time, and I wasn't shocked then. I think more teen novels were open about sex and drug use in the 1970s, in a very realistic way (as opposed to being a problem book).
It also struck me how much really has changed -- this is peak of the women's movement stuff, and these 17- and 18-year-old girls are questioning everything about their futures and societal norms.
I wish I hadn't lost my copy of her Sunshine. Such a fantastic hippie move-of-the-week thing.
Kat - Oct 05, 2013 7:13:32 pm PDT #21497 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I read Attachments last week. Frothier and sweet. Very much a romance without the angst at all. Lovely characters, but a bit unrealistic. And it felt like she sort of wrote herself into a corner and the ending was a bit klunky.
Actually endings may be an issue for her.
Amy - Oct 05, 2013 7:23:31 pm PDT #21498 of 28370
Because books.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll go with Fangirl instead.
Ben is desperate for me to read Paper Towns next, though. And I want to get everything A.S. King has ever written out of the library now.
meara - Oct 05, 2013 10:28:31 pm PDT #21499 of 28370
ctually endings may be an issue for her.
Yeah, I felt like the ending of Fangirl was a bit abrupt too. I enjoyed it, but not as much as Eleanor and Park (so I'm kinda glad I read it first, so I wasn't having high expectations!)
hippocampus - Oct 06, 2013 3:55:12 am PDT #21500 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Amy, I think I have Sunshine somewhere.
Typo Boy - Oct 07, 2013 2:39:54 pm PDT #21501 of 28370
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My Mom is recovering nicely from her concussion, though not yet completely over it. Last year she was a hit at her local readers theater with her reading of Poe's "The Bells". She says there is no way to top that. It would be a great present for her to prove her wrong. I would be really grateful for suggestions.
[Edited to make sense. Also this is for Halloween]