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[alg]

Good afternoon! Today I read a magnificent book about growing up, falling in love, and existing. It's a YA novel called My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr, loaned to me by gl0ry_gl0ry, and I can't get it out of my head. It is marvelously simple and affecting. One might say that it is about the beauty of beginnings, but I would have to say that it's about the pain of endings, and how terrifying and terrible it can be to realize "adulthood."


On a happier note, over at tor_backstairs, it is time to play "Published or Slush?" again! I know you're all really excited. It took me a while to find the perfect lines for this. I think next month we'll do entire paragraphs!


Now I'm off to eat a pistachio muffin. Catch you later, percolators.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

You know I always wonder about those that find the transition to adulthood painful, but then again I suppose adolescence was so bloody awful that I couldn't wait to rid myself of it.

And I'm also pretty much the same person I was when I was 23. I'm just less overly sensitive. And less eager to get mad at stupidity. But thanks for the book recommend anyhow.

[murmbeetle.livejournal.com]

i got my book today! i had totally forgotten about it! thank you!
(it's super jewy, i don't know how you knew)

[musetoself.livejournal.com]

Aw, that is my favorite YA book ever. Glad you liked it too. [Hi, this is Liz's roommate Megan.]

[alg.livejournal.com]

HI. I had never heard of this author before! Now I am involved. Apparently she used to be the assistant to one of my favorite agents. The agent's current assistant is going to give me a copy of her new book! Publishing is fantastic!

[musetoself.livejournal.com]

Librarian-ing is pretty nice for that too. :) I like her other books, but somewhat less. That clear wondering voice that I think of as so distinctly Ellen's turns out to be the author's voice in general, and it works less well for some of her other narrators. The new one is nice, though. I was definitely absorbed.