Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel | 
pickThis was a great book! The story of a 14 year old girl who loves her uncle fiercely, is struggling with her older sister and has formed an unconventional friendship with an adult man suffering from AIDS.
After typing that, I realize it sounds awful. Trust me - it's a good book. My only complaint is that there were things alluded to and story lines started that never went anywhere.
pickHad to put this one away a couple of times so I wouldn't get too emotional on the train 😖
pickWhat a story! Told through the eyes of June who wishes she lives in any ancient time or history instead of the world of the 1980‘s. She has a magical relationship with her godfather Finn, who is a great artist working on a portrait of Greta and her usually mean spirited sister, Greta. No spoilers in this review
pickAs I finish this book, my heart is full all the way up, like a lung: all the feels to the point of hyperinflation. I lived in this world, programming in BASIC at school and fearing gay men during the AIDS crisis. I want to tell my children: this world of very rudimentary computer systems and cruel treatment of people in same-sex partnerships was not so very long ago. #comingofage
pickThis book is why I read, I did not want to put it down! It was just beautiful and so devastating. Life is messy, families are messy. I cried my eyes out, snot flying everywhere! Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the recommendation. 💚
Did not think I would like this.....I LOVED IT!!!!
#7covers7days Day 2
Still on the TBR shelf
Tagging anyone who wants to join in
Day 1 of #7days7covers #covercrush . I was tagged by @silentrequiem and haven't been able to figure out who to tag yet. More to come.
pickA story about love and grief - both at their most raw level. I wasn‘t expecting much from a book set in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was rampant and people fluctuated between ignorance and panic. But this story was transcendent. The characters are imperfect, therefore realistic and easy to develop a connection with. An amazing read.
Two of my favorite #GreenandPink books 💚💗
#ColorMePretty
pickI loved this book. I loved the characters and the heart of the story. Definitely a book that I didn‘t want to see end.
pickI would quote the entirety of these pages if I could. Extraordinary. My hands-down favorite book of the last few years.
If I had a lot of money, I would buy acres of woods. I would put a wall around them and live there like it was another time. Maybe I would find one other person to live with me there. Someone who was willing to promise they‘d never speak a word about anything in the present. I doubt I could find anyone like that. I‘ve never met anyone yet who‘d make that kind of promise.
Even though I don‘t believe in God, last year I convinced my mother to let me join the Catholic church choir in our town just so I could sing the Mozart Kyrie at Easter. I can‘t even really sing, but the thing is, if you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the cold stone wall of the church, you can pretend you‘re in the Middle Ages. That‘s why I did it.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THIS. BOOK. 😍😭❤️ It slows down a bit in the middle but keep going. It‘s my favorite book in years. You‘ll fall in love with each character despite their many flaws.
pickDeeply moving on a subject in the early 80's, we new nothing about and everyone was deathly afraid of getting. I enjoyed that the main Protagonist was a 14 year old female who is trying to deal with the passing of her uncle who died of AIDS. She develops a secret relationship with her uncle partner who the whole family believes her uncle got AIDS from and want nothing to do with him.
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My library book sale haul part one- fiction. This doesn‘t include the two Owen has already taken to his room. I‘ve read the tagged book but couldn‘t pass up a hard copy.
Day 26 - #home #springintoreading
I read this book in 2016 and it was a 5 star read for me!
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don‘t know you‘ve lost someone until you‘ve found them.
pickWhat a sad, sad story and beautifully written. My heart broke for Toby and for June. But what a jealous, selfish bunch that family were! Loving someone does not give you the right to control them, or to pass judgement on their choices!
Thank you again, Jessie, for sending me this lovely book.
I know I'm being a pedant, but this is just wrong! "Swagman" maybe synonymous with hobo, but not wanderer, "waltzing" was slang for walking and "matilda" was slang for his swag (rolled up camping gear and belongings) that he carried over his shoulder. It is an invitation to others to join him in the quest for work, not some sort of romantic lament. Ugh!! Ok, rant over?
I read 25 pages of two separate ARCs today but just couldn‘t get into either. Ultimately came back to reading this one, which I never want to put down because it is beautiful & full of art & truth & heartbreak.
“My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn‘t rewind it when you were listening to it. And so you‘d forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end.” #24in48 — today, just trying to love this quote & drink my ginger tea for inflammation & forget that chronic pain has reared its ugly head again.
pickSo many memories flooding back of that time , those were dark days too...beautiful story! I highly recommend it!
Thank you so very much, Jessie, for your thoughtfulness and generosity. 😘 I've seen so much Litsy love for this one and I'm very keen to read it.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Ohhhhhh you made my day😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️📚📚📚📚🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄😘🎁📕📗Both books sound fantastical !!! Thank you - thank you!!!!
pickThis was a touching book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. #Booked2018 #MCwithAnInvisibleIllness #audiobook #27of36
#SeasonsReadings Some of my #GreenBooks, a few that look more blue than green in this picture. 🙄 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88
so-soThe premise of the story is good and I was initially hooked. I came out of the book with a rather sharp dislike, if not hatred for the main characters. They all needed to get out of their own selfish bullshit, and there were only mediocre redemptions at the end. Maybe I'm especially jaded about others holding selfish "love" and vilifying gay people at the same time. If that is the only way you can love them (or me) fuck you, don't waste my time.
“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”
#Adventrecommends Day 8
I love this book so much 💚💚💚
Omg @Jas16 you are the sweetest! I haven‘t checked my mail since before the holiday due to a death in the family, and then just typical holiday chaos, and the work week from hell. I was avoiding it (bills, junk, all the stuff I wasn‘t ready to deal with) and opened my mailbox to this wonderful happy surprise. You don‘t know how much this brightened my day! Thank you endlessly. Words can‘t describe... xo
pickSweet book! June's character is deep and real. This story is beautiful and tragic, just like how life is.
@Jas16 THANK YOU so much for the wonderful #jb surprise!! You are awesome ❤️📚 #justbecause
pickA heart wrenching story of imagination, love and loss. I really connected to the main character and was instantly drawn into the dysfunctional family dynamics. Highly recommend.
pickThis book was draining. It‘s messy, like life is messy, like people are messy. The characters frustrated me. But something shines from within its pages that comforted me - made me remember that life isn‘t always how we want it to be. So while it‘s not my favorite, it might be one I remember long after it‘s done.
I'm a sucker for books about wolves or even books that just have wolf in the title. This is one of my all time favorites. Today's song also happens to be my favorite Radiohead! #octoberxfiles #awolfatthedoor
@Robothugs @Cinfhen
panI disliked this book so much. The way the sisters treated each other seemed forced and unnatural. The cathartic moment at the end enraged and offended me.
pick14-year-old June visits her uncle Finn in NYC w/ sister Greta so he can paint their portrait, one last piece of art before he dies of AIDS. Wasn‘t ready for the complications of the storyline as June matured. Finn's boyfriend Toby introduces himself & she starts skipping school, hiding their budding friendship from her family. She misses Finn and to compensate she takes charge of caring for Toby emotionally as he too starts to wither away.
My #septemberwrapup. Not too bad!
My modest book haul from yesterday‘s massive book sale.
Started this one today! Only 40 pages in and I‘m loving it!
My friend highly recommended this book and as the kindle deal of the day, I'm not resisting. Anyone read it?
I dunno, guys. I‘ve heard so many good things about this book, but I just feel like I‘m being dragged with painful slowness through the awkward adolescence of a not-very-bright girl. There‘s so much that seems to be out of her reach that I just don‘t have quite enough information to grasp either. I‘m interested in Finn‘s history, but I mostly find Toby and June uncomfortable and creepy. Should I bail?
