I remember reading this book around the age of 16 or 17 for AP English or some such, and hitting this scene, where the cake is described and just being washed over with jaw-dropping awe at what someone could do with the English language. That was my first experience with any author or book ever where I went, "DAMN. This is a masterpiece."
I don't remember the first article I read - maybe something about Mad Max: Fury Road when it first came out? But I feel like I read a bunch of those "women enduring men in western art history" before I realized - lo! there was a comments section, and the commenters were actually NICE and SMART and discourse-y instead of being a flaming garbage fire like so many comment sections. That was the point at which the Toast became my go-to desk hour reading.
"you don't have to love kids, you just have to love people, because children are people. And there are always some you don't like, and that's OK too."
YASSSS This children's librarian heartily endorses this line of thinking. A friend of mine calls kids "new humans" with the mindset that they are working out this human-being thing and I love that way of thinking about it too.
If nobody can ID this for you, hie you to Smart Bitches Trashy Books. They have a regular feature called Help a Bitch Out where people send in descriptions exactly like this and the commenters try to identify it for the reader. (So many of them start with "I read this in my grandmother's bathroom when I was twelve and I got found out and it got taken away and I have to know how it ennnnnnnnnds." They have an astonishing success rate.
I just deleted this from my Kindle with a firmness. I didn't have as strong a reaction to the prose but I was going, "Whyfore was this billed to me as YA it was CLEARLY a rather cut-rate Regency romance. Ughhh."
I like good Regency romances (Loretta Chase WHO'S WITH MEEEE) but when I'm reading a YA, I want it to be YA.
There's a lot of Regency romance style books being billed as YA lately, or at least it seems that way to me. Has anyone else whose reading Venn diagram overlaps similarly noticed this?
The thing that brought me inutterable joy about the sit-in (besides, you know, that it's happening) is that it's led by John Lewis. I just read the first volume of his graphic novel autobiography about his leadership role in the civil rights movement (MARCH - three volumes so far) and DAMN I'm glad he's still at it.
Summer reading solidarity hugs
Edit: and apparently I fail at embedding gifs. Halp?
Yay you! I never have any luck with dating apps; I suspect it is user error, plus maybe also user inability to take a pic that doesn't look like a round pink balloon with hair.
I hope you find love, or something like it, or heck, at least have a good time on your date(s).
Barry is a goob. That was pretty much my takeaway. I had all those good feels after they finally managed to kiss and commit to each other (ish) after two years of pining on both sides and then? He does that???? GOOB.
I've been cherishing a fantasy of Caitlin getting her Killer Frost powers and giving Jay the freezing kiss of death in this finale. . . . Ah well. What she did was hella brave anyway, and I love that they found a way to make her as safe as possible while she did it.
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