“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine,” by Tomi Adeyemi
Team Review: Children of Blood and Bone
Review: Colors Insulting to Nature
“Lexie’s curmudgeonly dad, after a few tearful door-slams, hard truths, and violin music, reluctantly agrees to let a top ice-coach transform diamond-in-the-rough Lexie into a polished Olympic contender in six months (introducing the Ticking Clock, Hollywood Formula Obstacle #1).”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Read by the Pool/At the Beach
Since it’s been hitting 90 here (with the heat index making it feel like well over 100 every day), this one came at a perfect time. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for another great Top Ten Tuesday!
The Female Persuasion
“What are we supposed to do? . . . About the way it is . . . the way it feels. Things like misogyny, which seems to be everywhere, kind of wallpapering the world, you know what I mean? It’s still acceptable in the twenty-first century, and why is that?”
Grief, Illness, and Abandoned Dreams in Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings
"When you looked closely at anything, you could almost faint, Jules thought, although you had to look closely if you wanted to have any knowledge at all in life." ~ Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Forgetting (for real) and (maybe) forgiving in Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot
“She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.”
April TBR
This was a pretty decent mont of reading for us!
Review: Heroes of the Frontier
"This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing. This will mean success for me, them, our family, our lineage." ~ Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier
Review: Anna and the Swallow Man
“Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books on our Spring TBR
We divided this one up between each other and it was honestly hard to pare it down to five books each. But we managed somehow. As always, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for this Top Ten Tuesday!
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