Did we like it? Did we ALL like it? Are we recommending it? BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY What are we drinking?
Let’s Recap Real Quick
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3:45 Real Quick Fifty Shades Convo
8:53 Bekah gave I’ll Give You the Sun 5 stars …
Bekah’s Got Questions
Highlight: Did you ever think that Guillermo sounded like Fez from That 70s Show?
Should this book be classified as Young Adult?
Highlight: “Oh it’s so magical to meet you!” – Tiff meets Jandy
Highlight: “He’s doing things 13 year old boys do … getting beat up, getting bullied, getting erections…”
Was Noah as Muse supposed to Mean Something?
Highlight: Beth tries to figure out why this book feels … wrong … for young kids to read
Sibling Rivalry IRL
Highlight: “I was never very competitive with my sister because I’m better than her at everything.”
Highlight: “Bekah, your siblings didn’t compete for the Home School Talent Shows?”
Real Quick REAL QUICK FMK
Highlight: this book is basically because Jandy Nelson really loved Vicky Christina Barcelona
Were you surprised at how this panned out?
Highlight: Oscar’s libido gets the best of him. YAY.
Overall we give I’ll Give you the Sun:
Three Stars! Bekah loved, Beth wouldn’t recommend, Jamie and Tiff were okay with it.
WHOOPS- we never discussed Rat Queens. NEXT TIME (probably not)
NEXT MONTH:
Jamie wanted a mystery soooooo…we will be reading Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation.
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.
When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart.
This sounds like the perfect fit if you’ve been into the Serial Podcast like we have been.
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