Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Terminal Illness

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Monday, March 27, 2017

Super Good

Chris Crutcher is a fantastic writer. Sports books, but more than sports books. Real-life books. Hard topic books. In the case of Deadline, death. But more than death. How to live when you are dying. Tell or not tell? Grace. Forgiveness. Racism. Small towns. Small minds. First love. Incest. Everything. Wow. Just a LOT in Deadline. A LOT. Highly recommended. Highly.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

REALLY, really good SPOILERS!

Stranger than Fanfiction was SO good! So good! There is swearing, so if that bothers you then just be aware, but this was just so good. Dealt with faith in such a good way, too. I loved the conversation that the one young man imagines God having about homosexuality. This is just awesome! I had no idea that the book would end the way it did. I am even fearful of putting up the subject tags because it totally gives away the shock-ending! But man, what a great book.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Haunted

I just couldn't rate Ghosts because while I found the sisterly relationship to be super well done the cultural appropriation really bugged me. But I don't think that Raina Telgemeier meant any harm. But yet I really think it is important to make note of it and to recognize that it just isn't okay to do that. For a much better understanding about all of this, please read here. But man, it is a shame because there is a lot of good stuff in here.