FORGOT TO POST THIS....SORRY, @Jess7
#ReadingResolutions
@Jess7
TODAY‘S PROMPT: SWIMMING
When you leave home, can you ever really come back again?
That‘s what Elaine Neil Orr explores in her new novel SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS, set in 1960‘s Winston-Salem, NC.
https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2018/04/spotlight-of-elaine-neil-orrs-book.htm...
bailedTook a good look at my TBR pile and decided to bail. I really wanted to like this one, but it just was not going anywhere. Tracker and Kate apparently find themselves in the middle of the civil rights struggle, but so far, most of the book has been their painful conversations. If you are a Gilmore Girls fan and remember the episode where Kirk makes an experimental film about meeting his girlfriend‘s family—that is how I envisioned these 👇👇👇
About halfway through with this one......and I just can‘t convince myself to care about any of the characters or what happens- but part of me feels guilty anytime I don‘t see a book all the way through! 😑
1. Just started the tagged book last night...
2. It is grey and drizzly today and husband is at work, so it is just a catch up day.
3. Probably bbq- so I am making some pulled pork today!
#manicmonday
@JoScho
bailedI tried with this one, but it‘s just not working for me 1/3 of the way in. Ostensibly about the civil rights era in the south, thus far it‘s primarily a portrait of a progressive (for the time) young white guy. It‘s simply moving too slowly and I‘ve lost interest.
Have you ever lived somewhere that you wish you could go back to❓I used to live in the South, and I really miss it. It felt like I was living in a different world.
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SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS by Elaine Neil Orr is a coming of age story set in North Carolina. Set against the background of the American Civil Rights movement this book evokes an abundance southern charm.
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Thank you to Berkley Books for sending me a copy ❤️
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Taken from a quote by the publisher:
"A perfect read for fans of The Help and The Secret Life of Bees, SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS is a Southern coming-of-age novel that explores how changing viewpoints can alter people‘s lives and their communities."
https://silversolara.blogspot.com/2018/04/spotlight-of-elaine-neil-orrs-book.htm...
What one loved about literature was all of the flaws, not in the writing, but in the characters.
Swimming Between Worlds | 
