so-soFirst read of the year catching up with #allthebooksof2017 - Home Field is the story of a family made dysfunctional by grief over a loved one‘s suicide. It was decent but not great - honestly, I was expecting a bit more of a sports angle from what I‘d read about it going in. Good but not particularly memorable.
so-soA book about small towns, grief, suicide, and how the people left behind cope afterwards. I really wanted more from it and hated Dean, the father. I would have preferred rotating POVs with Stephenie and Robbie rather than one page of Dean's thoughts.
The description of this book starts off as "The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance of My So-Called Life......." This is definitely getting added to the To Read list !
Reading this one for a panel I'm moderating at the Virginia Festival of the Book later this month. It's been likened to Friday Night Lights which helps me not at all since I haven't watched it!
Need a breather from real life and also from Midnight's Children, so I started this one today.
Packing up my reading for the day, on the off chance I finish Monster's Daughter. We've been given a low-energy volunteer assignment since my partner's health prohibits the really busy positions she/we have taken on in the past, so basically I have 7 hours to read and play with puggies, including my Livy and her littermate Daisy Mae.
pickI liked this very much. The story of a small-town family's response to tragedy felt real and was beautifully rendered. (I also loved the P.S. section at the back that included annotated lists of books and songs that inspired the author.)
pickThis is a slow, quiet novel about a family dealing with the aftermath of suicide and grief. Not perfect but I enjoyed it.
I decided to pick this up next because it seems less desolate than The Wolf Road but the prologue is pretty sad so we'll see🤔
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