The Carnival at Bray | 
so-so16 yr old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from her home in Chicago to Ireland after her mom marries in 1993, the height of Nirvana and the grunge movement. Seeing Maggie growth is the book was my fav thing in this books beside the obvious 90s music name drops. This book was very nostalgic even if I‘ve never visited Ireland, the music alone brought me there in the story. This story had heavy situations like suicide and drugs that tied in with the music.
I would have killed to be able to see Smashing Pumpkins perform at the record release party for Siamese Dream!
Luckily I got to see them a couple years ago and they played from this album and their others and it was amazing!
#currentlyreading
One of the books I‘ve read that is set in #Ireland I remember really liking it.
Ireland is at the top of my list of places I want to go when travel is safe again! #LitsySpringBreak
Set in 1993, Chicago teen Maggie, relocates to Bray, Ireland when her mom marries an Irishman. She leaves behind everything she knows and loves, including her beloved uncle, a rocker who introduced Maggie to the grunge rock scene. In Ireland, she‘s a fish out of water but through a certain set of circumstances, she goes on a forbidden pilgrimage to see her favorite band, Nirvana, in #concert. I ❤️ this book!
#letstraveljuly
pickThis is a F book, Printz award winner and can be used in the classroom as a LC AS or IR. #UCFLAE3414SP18
When 1st love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a determined Maggie embarks on a life changing mission to fulfill a dying wish. Through her experiences Maggie discovers new things about life and herself.
A YA novel about a girl sneaking off to a Nirvanna concert in another country to honor a dying wish #smellsliketeenspirit to me. I really enjoyed this one. #junetunz
These are my #bestofmarch. Another good month! #marchintoreading
pickI found this book from a "Blind Date with a Book" article (on Book Riot, maybe?) that offered one line descriptions of novels, and I loved it. Sometimes coming of age novels can seem a little too treacly to me, but this one didn't. I loved the main character, Maggie, and the relationships she found when her mother marries and moves the family to a small village in Ireland. My favorite was Dan Sean, the 99 year-old who befriended her.
Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Littens! ☘️☘️☘️
So far, I'm liking this book set in Ireland in 1993 about a teen girl on a pilgrimage to see Nirvana in concert.
The tagged book is on my #kindle, and these are the physical books for my #MarchTBR. #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading
I'm really looking forward to reading this! Also, these delicious page flags shaped like jewels just came in the mail today. So excited! 💜
"They shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild, shatter and rebuild until they are old and worn and stooped from the work of it." Somehow this is hopeful to me. #lovethebook #teenread
"She was now a person who had to imagine a body she had known, a face she had loved, buried under boards, while over at the Montrose bird sanctuary, indifferent seagulls and winter birds gathered in the trees, and life continued for most things on earth as it always had."
For the full quote... #teenread #awesomeread
Any fans of The Loud House? My daughter loves it. I wish we could buy it on DVD. Luna is one of my favorite characters. Of these book recommendations for her The Carnival At Bray looks interesting to me. It's in my tbr stack now. #theloudhouse #lunaloud #bookrecsforfictionalcharacters
Another example of the right book at the wrong time. I tried reading this a year ago and couldn't get past the first few pages. Picked it up now and I'm completely enthralled. Sometimes you just need to go back and try again.
