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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.

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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.