“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through,” (Rooney 245). Frances and her best friend Bobbi study together in Dublin while also performing spoken word poetry around the city. One night they meet Melissa, a well-known photographer, and her husband Nick, an actor. While Bobbi …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “What could he do if he let himself get lost in an image?” (Hartwell 75). Teenager Dieter lives with his grandfather in a small town in southern Quebec with only his best friend K to give him company. But when K abandons him …
“Love was love – in whatever shape it took,” (Läckberg 408). The town of Fjällbacka is shaken after a famous photographer is found murdered before an exhibition opening. His friend, the famous author Henning Bauer and his family, are shocked by the death of their friend, even more so when the violence follows them to their …
“Fuck. This was really gay,” (Reid). Shane Hollander’s whole life is hockey. He is famous for his skill, dedicated to the sport, and now that he’s the captain of the Montreal Voyageurs he’ll make sure not to jeopardize that, especially not by the captain of the Boston Bears, Ilya Rosanov. Ilya is just as talented and …
“Which one of us will outlive the others, who will become the face of this tragedy? It was always the youngest, the pretties, the whitest. There was no tragedy in being plain, no attention spared to girls who had it coming,” (Nolan). Delores “Lawrence” Franklin and her best friend Anastasia “Stasia” Lanes runaway to Mistaken …
“Maybe wanting things is what makes me a lot. If I could just want less, I’d be the right amount of person. The amount I’m supposed to be. The not-a-lot amount. The easy-to-love amount,” (McCurdy 6). Seventeen-year-old Waldo is in love with her middle-aged Creative Writing teacher Mr. Korgy and she doesn’t know why. Is …
“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long,” (King 422). Former Prison Guard Paul Edgecomb recalls his time working on the Green Mile, a block in Cold Mountain Penitentiary for inmates on death row. Paul has met a lot of people during …
“Some calculations are simple. Sons trump daughters. Three children trump one. Deep in my heart, I had already decided that nothing could be worse than the life I had,” (Stachniak 10). During King Louis XV reign, scouted teenager girls were sent to live in a nondescript villa in Versailles before being sent to the plaza to …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “When I saw forward into my death and welcomed its yawn, I haunted me,” (LaPierre 4). In her newest poetry collection, Margo LaPierre gives a powerful and real look at psychosis, mania, and bipolar disorder. Not looking to romanticize her mental illness, LaPierre humanizes …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Why did it scare her so? She was a fighter, an independent woman with a successful profession, not house bound like her mother had been, and all the female generations before. And yet, the Stong family lineage held her captive,” (Grundy 163). Right before …
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