Icy Sparks | 
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🎞 Indiana Jones
🎤 INXS, Chris Isaak
🎶 Iridescent (Linkin Park), Iris (Goo Goo Dolls), I Want to Break Free (Queen), I am a Stone (Demon Hunter) I Don‘t Love You (MCR who I get to see tonight🙌🏼) It‘s Beginning to Get to Me (Snow Patrol)
I read the tagged book years ago and was reminded of it when I watched David Lettermen‘s Billie Eilish interview.
#AlphabetGame
so-soI've owned this book far longer than I care to admit. 😂
I'm torn on how I feel. I truly loved Icy's character and I'm a fan of books set in the rural South, but once I finished I felt a disconnect with the overall story.
Icy suffers from Tourette's but goes undiagnosed for most of her life. The author did a great job of portraying Icy's loneliness and her desire to find somewhere she fit in.
Overall it ended up just being okay.
pan⭐️⭐️⭐️
This one took me an inordinate amount of time to finish because I just couldn‘t get into it. It had some poignant moments, but overall it fell flat for me. I didn‘t connect with any of the characters, who were mostly underdeveloped and static. The ending lacked closure and felt rushed. I wish there had been more exploration of music therapy. There were some good points, but I was fairly disappointed and wouldn‘t really recommend it.
Still on my TBR, but it has #AntonymsintheTitle #auldlangreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
The tagged book. Currently reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time. Not sure how I didn‘t read this when I was younger. I thinks it‘s lovely.
I container garden: raspberries, Blueberries, cherry tomatoes and herbs and some flowers
We went to see The Clairvoyants last weekend on a lark
Louise Penny, Nancy Atherton, Jacqueline Winspear, working on Willy Vlautin
#weekendchat @CSeydel
pickThough it started out a little slow, this book captured my attention and my heart. Imagine growing up different from everyone else and not knowing why. Only learning in college that there is a name and reason for what you've experienced. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I think he's trying to tell me something 🤣
#dogsoflitsy #dozerdog
Feels like I haven't posted in forever!! Had trouble getting into the first 75 pages of this book but it has gotten much better 😃
Book Jar told me to read this next...I don't know anything about it; anybody read it?
PS like how I had to get my pretty new leggings in here? 😉
From my TBR, this is the only book I could find with #ice in the title. #sizzlinsummerreads @Tiffy_Reads
so-soSomewhere between a so-so and a pan for me. It started off really well and I was initially very intrigued to read about a 1950's Appalachian girl coming of age while struggling with undiagnosed Tourette's, but ultimately it didn't live up to its promise. The writing was too cloying and often downright cringey. Some moments felt sensitively drawn but others not at all. Things wound up in a bunch of platitudes- felt like a bit of a bait and switch!
And another one comes down off #TBRMountain. #BirthdayChallenge #1998
#LitsyQuiz Round 2, first selection! Have you read/bought/heard of this veteran Oprah Book Club selection? Considered one of the most popular books of its year. It's got a strong overall rating on Goodreads as well. 😊👍🏻
pickOk so I'm not a fan of the main character but I will say this is a good book. You follow Icy Sparks through her childhood and it's not until college where a doctor tells her she has Tourette's. She has grown to accept and appreciate all her quirks.
"A part of me wanted to break his heart..." This is why I don't like this character. She's mean and cruel to the people who love her. And there is no doubt that people treat her badly because of illness but I cannot like a person who lies to those she loves and is deliberately mean to them.
Main character is 14 now and being home schooled by her friend Miss Emily. Kennedy was just elected president. Icy is still trying to figure out why she acts the way she does.
I'm curious to know what is wrong with her. Some of her behavior can't be controlled. But she also knows that much of her behavior is her choice which is why I don't like her. Yes she's a child but she's mature enough to think before acting and speaking. #halfwaydone #bookclub
Maybe it's just me but I find the main character rather annoying. She obviously has some issues from her parents dying and being raised by her grandparents but the amount of acting up she does, much of it seems like she's purposely being obnoxious to get attention. #bookclub #notlikingityet
Okay so this fourth grade teacher, who I do not like at all, is now reading to them "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. What kind of teacher is this?!
Completely forgot that I have book club on Tuesday. So I guess I'll put other books on hold a little this weekend. #bookclub
I ❤️ Spine Poetry!! Here's my contest entry from my TBR: Out/Beloved icy sparks/All over/Coffee #spinepoetry
pickRead Icy Sparks in high school. My dad was a big fan of buying books from Oprah's Book Club. Whenever he didn't know what to get me, he'd buy me the most recent selection. Icy Sparks is a great piece of Appalachian literature and a wonderful buildingsroman. So happy I get to teach it to my students.
Just started reading this; only a few pages in and I think this will be a very interesting read.
