I‘m from Sugar Land! Very excited to read this!
What a lovely package, @TerriGreen! Perfect book selection, the cutest note pads and bookmarks and cozy indulgences. Thank you ever so much and happy Valentines! #cupidgoespostal @BookishMarginalia 😍💖
What a lovely package, @TerriGreen! Perfect book selection, the cutest note pads and bookmarks and cozy indulgences. Thank you ever so much and happy Valentines! #cupidgoespostal @BookishMarginalia 😍💖
Acoustic, gritty, bleak and sparse - and funny and hopeful. You may be tempted to bail - stick with it! You‘ll be glad you did.
“No life is easy, and no life is hard; it‘s just what adjectives you choose to use to describe it.”
Full review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2677894510
Thanks to @MicheleinPhilly and @Reggie for recommending this. 😘
PS - Leo has been here a day and already acts like this is his castle...😹
It‘s going to be the year of Sugar...🍭🍭
It‘s the 1920‘s and Dara has fallen in love with her best friend, Rhodie. Once they‘ve been found out Dara exiles herself to working in a men‘s prison in Sugar Land, TX, where she learns that sometimes not being able to accept yourself is a prison of its own. The rest of her life is breaking out of that prison. There was such an unapologetic frankness to this novel that I came to appreciate. I feel lighter in spirit having read this. A good read.
I‘m really liking this book. Wasn‘t sure if I was gonna like this but it definitely has me now.
This debut novel is on the Tournament of Books long list. I have it on Kindle and hope to get to it soon. #Tob2019 #candyland #seasonsreadings
Had it not been for the TOB longlist I fear this book would have passed me by and that would have been a damn shame.
This absolutely wonderful debut is so full of heart and pluck and spunk and humor and sadness and LIFE.
It won‘t appeal to everyone - there is a healthy heaping of racism, homophobia, and misogyny and TW: sexual assault and body shaming.
But I adored it. 4.5⭐️ Available on Hoopla.
12.2.18 Won this book from a giveaway on Instagram. It even came with a cute bookmark! 💖 Excited to read it 📚
#bookish #giveaway #bookmail #bookshark #booksparks