pickGreat encyclopedia of cryptozoology!
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pickGreat encyclopedia of cryptozoology!
pick#blameitonlitsy @Soubhiville
An emotional examination of grief and queer identity. Excellent narration!
Listen, not every book needs to be as big a pervert as I am, but this sex scene (which avoided both directly referring to, or even alluding to, genitals) was real... weird.
pickFor my Topics bookclub we are reading “Cryptids” in September, and this was available on audio from my library. I enjoyed it more than I expected to.
Noah is 12 and trans and in deep grief over loss of his best friend Lewis. Lewis loved the legend of Mothman, so Noah starts writing to the Cryptids and leaving the letter notebook outdoors overnight. Someone seems to be reading the letters, but who?
Noah navigates school, new friends, bullies.
so-soA fun premise with an average execution. I appreciate the sensitive topics that the story puts “out there” (emotional abuse, gaslighting, the loneliness the comes with being a caretaker — especially at a young age when caring for an ill or dying parent). The writing, however, is repetitive and lacks subtlety & finesse, e.g. “He pulls me into a kiss. It‘s slow and long-awaited…and tastes of tongue.” WHAT. No, thank you.👇🏻
pickI love this book ever so much and not just because Mary‘s decades long care for this family feels terribly wonderfully familiar (but suffice to say if I was a ghost we would not have dissimilar positions). This was a lovely, sorrowful, fantastic continuation of a series I‘m truly enamoured with. I doubt I will ever get tired of finding out what the Price family gets up to next.
My favorite kind of Sunday - cuppa and a couple of chapters.
pickIf you like reading about the search for mythical creatures, you probably will enjoy this book. The search is on for a creature in Lake Michigan. The mystery was fun. I liked the characters, especially Morgan and her dog Newt. I gave it 4/5.
