Hold Still | 
so-soThis one was just okay for me. It was pretty bleak and I just thought the beginning started so different than where it went through the book. I just felt like this was really disjointed in spots and I felt myself losing interest frequently. I liked the characters a lot, but overall, it didn‘t offer anything new to this topic and fell a little flat for me.
pickAfter Caitlin loses her best friend Ingrid to suicide, she finds her journal, which she had tucked under Caitlin‘s bed. In reading the entries, no more than one per day, Caitlin learns of sides of her friend she never knew.
Heartbreaking but also hopeful. Nina LaCour writes great YA, getting to the heart of the story.
pickHold Still by Nina LaCour
This was my second Nina LaCour book and I love her writing, but her books slay me.
so-soIn this heart wrenching novel, we follow the life of young Caitlyn learning to navigate her life after the death of her best friend and other half, Ingrid. Major themes in the book include friendship, loss and learning how to deal living without someone you believed to have completed you. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a tearjerker, especially young teens. This book is easily relatable as most struggle with loss at some point.
pickThis was a really good representation of grief and depression. Two subjects that are rarely well-represented in any media. I loved all the relationship dynamics, they all felt realistic and honest. I was holding back tears the hold time and when I did finally finished, I cried for ten minutes straight. This book made me appreciate my life more. PS. You have to read the author's note.
Huge #bookhaul came in today!! I totally crushed my TBR with this order, but who can blame me (except for my wallet 🤑). I have a ton of guilty pleasures in this stack, but I'm most excited for Hold Still--I'm hoping I can get to it before her new release this fall (which I still need to preorder ASAP!) #bookmail
pickThis book is about how the life without art, laughter, music and joy that she shared with her best friend is hard for her and when she finds Ingrids journal she has the chance to experience the other side of her friend and uses the journal to help her through this rough time. If you like this book then read it to find out Caitlins side of the story.
pick“You might be looking for reasons, but there are no reasons.”
I loved “Hold Still” by Nina Lacour. It had a simple and easy to follow storyline, but complex characters, and great writing.
pickI loved the inner cover of this book! This was my first Nina LaCour book, but I‘ll be sure to read more! Not as dark as I‘d anticipated, but I will put a big TW for suicide/self harm because there a handful of graphic descriptions. I found it very easy to escape into Caitlin‘s life.
pickI read this book on my flights to the midwest to visit family for a long weekend. It was excellent! I was pulled in from the beginning. I also appreciated the author's note at the end, "We all move through life with our own pains and traumas and heartbreaks...there is much to be gained by sharing them, in whatever form we choose to do so, however messy or difficult, however unworthy or self-conscious or small we might feel when we do it."
Travel breakfast essentials!
pickI read this book in a day. Every time I tried putting it down it called me back to it. Heartbreaking and so engaging. Loved it.
This was my first LaCour book and while it won‘t be my last I definitely need some time before the next if all her books are this intense. A heartbreaking story lovingly written.
The book I‘m reading AND the phrase I said a million times will giving my pup a LONG over due trim. He‘s like a new dog!
pickLovely little book about grief and depression and life after loss. Major TW for suicide which is discussed even though it happens off-page. Like all of Nina LaCour's books I've read so far there's something a bit meandering about the plot that makes it feel very real and gentle somehow despite the topic and depths of grief the main character is facing. A solid 3.5 stars-- not the height of LaCour's skills, but glad to have read it.
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I finally got through a pretty major rewrite of my novel which means I have time to start a new book! Not to mention reward myself with some girl scout cookies (just dont ask how many samoas I ate to get me through those revisions in the first place)
1. About to start Hold Still
2. How could you choose?
3. "Under winter clouds, victorious, he unlocks the door." -- Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
#weekendreads
So in love with this paperback that matches We Are Okay and can't wait to read it
pickI‘m so glad that the new cover of this book pulled me in! I‘m sad I hadn‘t gotten to this one earlier because it was great, probably my favorite by this author!
Got a bit of a late start this morning, my bed is way too comfy, but I did manage to get a book finished and put in a bit of time. #24in48
I thought I had read everything Nina LaCour had written, I somehow missed this one. This new cover sucked me in.
Excuse me while I fangirl over this stunning new cover for Nina LaCour's first book 😍
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"Her best friend is gone but she left something behind."
Nina LaCour is my new YA fave
pickI am realizing that I‘m a big fan of Nina LaCour. This book gave me the most cathartic “good cry” since probably the last book of hers I read! This was a very sensitive, touching account of a girl coming to terms with her best friend‘s suicide. Both girls were budding photographers, and the interactions between them and their favorite art teacher are so well done. About friendships, family, hope, and despair. Keep the tissues close, but read it.
Mein Neuzugang, den ich schon nächste Woche Samstag beginnen werde 😍
Ich hab schon viel gutes über das Buch gehört und das es auch Recht emotional sein soll. 🙈 Ich kann es gar nicht erwarten es zu beginnen und mir selber eine Meinung drüber zu bilden 😍
pickAfter her best friend commits suicide, Caitlin is left behind to deal with the aftermath. Through a journal that Ingrid left for her, Caitlin works through her grief and loss and begins to reclaim her own life.
A sad and sensitive portrayal of mental illness and the devastation that suicide wreaks on those left behind.
pickBeautifully written story about a girl grieving and trying to make sense of things after her best friend commits suicide.
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Just finished this lovely before bed❤️ Now time for the big decision, what to read next🤔
"Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all."
"I didn't know you were scared."
"Of course you knew I was scared. There was just nothing you could do."
"My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It's so wrong, so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling.
"Here's how I feel: People take one another for granted......... You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment of your life, and think, soon this will be over. But I understand more now. About the way life works. I know that when I finish reading Ingrid's journal, there won't be anything new between us ever again.
"But all I can think about is Ingrid's journal, in my room, and if it's still there, and what if someone finds it, and why I don't want to read it, and how I know I need to."
