Just not for me

I don't know. Great cover! Interesting idea! But I just didn't enjoy The King of Slippery Falls. I admit I checked it out for my Reading Road Trip. How many Idaho books are there? But right before it, I found my Idaho book and finished it, so maybe I had a bad attitude going in. Also the narrator's voice was nice, but he just seemed so rushed.

It is the story of a 15 year old dude, Louis, who finds out he is adopted and then starts to think about who he really is. The vocabulary is high and comes across as unnatural. One of his friends has the worst last name in history and it killed me every time I heard it. Baderhoovernisterah. And he never calls her Mrs. B.? Never?

Yeah.  I just didn't really like it very much. 

One of those giant books that aren't really giant

My friend Dolores pulled Love and Leftovers off the shelf on Monday and said that she had heard good things about it.  I looked at it and even though I needed a book, it just looked so giant!!!  432 pages!  But then we opened it up and saw that it was written in verse!  Hooray! 

And I am so glad it was written in verse, because I like books written in verse, and this one was really good and original.  It also will be one that is very easy to recommend.  AND it is half in Idaho and half in New Hamphsire.  Well I already had New Hampshire, but not Idaho!

Marcie's father has just announced to his family that he is gay and has a boyfriend and Marcie's mother is devastated and she and Marcie are staying in New Hampshire at their summer home.  Marcie's mom pretty much falls apart.  Marcie's dad and his boyfriend are totally good guys, but it is still weird for Marcie, plus, she is halfway across the country now, away from her friends and her boyfriend Linus and she is so so lonely.  The story deals with love, sexuality, depression, all kinds of things, in a really spot-on way.  Very readable.  Great characters.  Easy to feel for them all.