Sweetgirl | 
pickI really liked this book. Both perspectives shine a light on the really hard to discuss and largely gray area of addiction's moral compass and one's ability to contain their addiction.
I truthfully think this scenario could happen anywhere in our country. I also think this story could easily be turned into a movie. The focus of this book is simple, the characters only slightly complex in the viewfinder in which we see them though.
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pickIt reminded me a bit of “A Winter‘s Tale” – which I also liked. Some aspects of the ending were a bit too over-hasty for me but I liked the relationship between Portis (🧡) and Percy. I also liked that Mulhauser isn‘t squeamish with his characters.
And, once more, if that is where drugs lead you, I made some right decisions in my life.
No light read but definitely recommended.
I try this one. Even if I‘m not sure if I persevere for long. Might be I find it too strenuous.
But who knows … If the story and writing is good I might manage an hour, although I feel somewhat wrenched. About an hour after having taken my medicine I am allowed to eat.
This is my next novel/fictional read.
To be honest I can‘t recall what it‘s all about and/or why I put it on my wish list. Maybe it was because it‘s a debut. 🤷🏽♀️
Anyway, I‘ll start it and I‘m looking forward to the story it will take me.
pickThis was a story full of characters that I really enjoyed despite their flaws. I think the author did a tremendous job of creating characters I will keep with me. I also think this story of a teenage daughter trying to save her addicted mother is one that a lot of my students will enjoy and some may relate to.
Started this book yesterday hoping to read it while snow piled up outside but alas....Reports of a Portland snowpocalypse were greatly exaggerated. We got a dusting at my house. Some other neighborhoods got a bit more. But today it's all sun and shine. Still damn cold though so when Percy almost gets frostbite...girl, I feel you. ☃️❄️
February #readwhatyouown Kindle edition.
#GetMovin #day7 #Wasted In this heartbreaking novel everyone is wasted except 16yrold Percy James. A storms coming in Northern Michigan & Percy‘s meth addict mother is missing. Used to being the adult, she heads up into the mountains to her mums dealer boyfriends cabin, but instead of her mother she finds a baby girl slowly freezing to death while the baby‘s mama & Shelton lay in a drug stupor. Taking the child with her, she ends up being pursued.
pickAt sixteen, Percy is more grown up than most at her age. Her mother is a meth addict, who has disappeared. Percy goes to the meth dealer‘s house to find her mother but instead comes across an unattended baby. She takes the baby and begins a journey through a wild blizzard to get the baby to safety.
Has anyone read this??? It was given to me by someone and i don‘t know anything about it!
Thanks for the tag @eanderson here are my #5in2018 I‘ve been promising my oldest for years that I will read Gatsby, I got Darktown for Christmas, and the others have just been languishing near the top of my stacks. If you haven‘t been tagged yet, consider yourself tagged!
pickI'm from Phoenix, AZ, so I love books that take place in snowy places. This book is about a teenage girl named Percy who is looking for her meth addicted mother. When she turns up at the dealer's farm house, she finds a baby, alone and neglected. This short novel follows Percy on her journey to get the baby to safety during a horrible blizzard. I laughed, I cried, I shivered.
so-soFirst of all, I should've saved this book for winter. All the snow and cold based imagery fell flat as I sat by the pool on a hot July day. But I liked the characters, and the fact that Mulhauser kept everyone in a gray area - no one was completely good or bad. I was expecting a thriller, it was more than that but not quite enough for me if that makes sense.
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(Guides war einfach klasse!)
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1. Satz:
"Neun Tage nachdem Mama verschwunden war, hörte ich, dass sie sich mit Shelton Potter die Dröhnung gab."
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EDIT: Hab es mittlerweile durchgesuchtet, Leseempfehlung!!
I really don't think I could live without books ❤️
#JuneTunz #day5 #Resistance Percy, the lead character in this novel is all about resistance. Resisting the abuse she's suffered, resisting giving in and ending up a drug addicted no hoper like most of the people in her life, including her mother, and resisting leaving a defenceless baby behind to die from either the cold or the horrible neglect it was growing up in. She's an absolute hero as far as I'm concerned.
pickThis was my go-to read over the last several days. Pretty good in some spots! If anything could of gone wrong for poor Percy they sure did...gooood grief! Bad luck times 1000.
I had a lot going on so it's hard to tell if it would of been a better reading experience if I could of focused and read it straight through. ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
#Smalltown life set in the deep woods of Northern Michigan.
#RockInMay
pickHeartbreaking book about a 16year old girl trying to save a neglected baby during Michigan winter storm. I am meanwhile trying to warm my feet when once again someone starts hogging the heater!
A good day! Started a new book and get to welcome @lsullivan to Litsy! #LitsyAtoZ
Hellllllo fellow littens!!!!! So myself and @Smangela have become die hard fans of this beautiful book community and have loved participating in photo contests so we figured what the hell! We'll do one ourselves. Of course my reasoning is more selfish in the fact I just want more book recommendations to add to my TBR 😜j/k we are excited to do this and give away some prizes. So let's get this thing started!!!! Monday here we come! #sweetemotion
pick#LitsyAtoZ "All the Books" definitely and correctly warned me I would not be able to put this down. I do not recall being warned, however, that I was going to have tears streaming down my face at the end. Read this on a day when you have an unlimited amount of time and no one is around to ask you why you are crying! #MAKEROOMMAKEROOM
pickI love snowy thrillers! I don't know why, given I get more than enough snow in my life 🙄 especially when they're set in Michigan ❤
Loved this fast-paced suspenseful little book. 16 year old Percy ventures out in a snowstorm to find her addict mother, and finds a crying baby instead. The next hours are spent trekking through the snowy woods with the baby, trying to find help.
Downtown, having a chai tea latter and cheese croissant while The American goes to the chiropractor. This was super peaceful and lovely until 10 thirteen year old girls descended into the spot beside me 🙄
Yayyy!! #24in48 I did it! I read for 24.5 hours and finished 3 graphic novels and 4 novels (I was already 75% into Heartless before the readathon, though!) and got a decent way into an audiobook, too. So happy! 😊
Took to my bed, poorly sick. Picked up this and instantly got blown away. Wow. Just WOW!!
pickLoved this one! Great way to wrap up the @24in48 Readathon! (More like 25 because I had to finish Sweet girl! Hope everyone had a blast reading!
pickHere's one from this morning in SF 😍.
This is the book I finished while in line at Disneyland over the weekend. I devoured it. It's quiet, but so powerful and tense and there are sentences in here that brought me to my knees (in my mind of course). It reminded me of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things in so many ways. A title I like to say out loud & that rings in my ears even today. It will break your heart and end the way you need it to.
pickGood book, great on audio. I enjoyed the story, but it did seem familiar, not sure what I've read/seen that is similar, but I still enjoyed. All of the parents in this book are horrible, but I really liked Percy.
From the first paragraph to the last, this book is a clear winner. I am so glad I read it tonight: a pleasant surprise
Returned 4, came home with 15. I'd say that sounds about right. None of my current reads are capturing my attention. Surely something here will do the trick. Plus I'm gearing up for #24in48
Fangirling a little bit because Travis Mulhauser just responded to my tweet! 🤓🤗🤓
Joined the waitlist for this ebook this morning and got the notification 2 minutes ago that it became available for me!
Bob thinks my excitement for books is silly. 😹😻
pickAnother fantastic novel recommended by @Liberty ! A strong, young female who is thrown into responsibility well before she should have been sets off to find her cracked-out mother, and instead finds a baby girl. It was heart wrenching, funny, and incredibly sad - so read it!!!!
I am absolutely loving this book so far! The dialogue is so funny and fast paced, and this exchange just made me actually LOL 😂
Starting this now. I know nothing about it except I'm fairly certain it was purchased after @Liberty raved about it, therefore it must be good!
So remember when I said my resolution was to stop buying books? THIS IS WHY. I ordered these after Christmas so I'm still in the clear for no-new-books-2017 but still. Exhibit A for this being a good resolution 🙄
But in the meantime ... WHERE DO I START? 😻😻#bookhaul
pickGood, solid first book of #2017. The book isn't long and it kept me interested as to what would happen next. Percy is a strong and determined cookie. There were sad moments and engaging moments. Oh and Portis. Needless to say, I recommend this book.
"You would be surprised by the things you can walk through when it is necessary to keep walking."
pickThis tale of a teenage girl forced to grow up to soon bc of a meth addicted mother is great. Loved the plot, setting and especially the complex characters.
First book of #2017
