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Mia McKenzie

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McSweeney's Issue 51 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer

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female
Nationalitet
USA
Land (til kort)
USA
Fødested
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Erhverv
founder, BGD press

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I’m not sure how I came across this but it was a fun ride. Skye is our main character and she is a pretty big mess of a person as she is approaching midlife but thanks to the excellent narration I managed to find her funny and loveable by the end of the book.

She is a prickly loner but when the child of her youthful egg donation finds her one day it sets Skye on a path that helps her make new relationships and mend some old ones all while falling back in love with her home town: Philadelphia.

“I’m happy to be in Philly. The people I love live here and so do I.”
… (mere)
 
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hmonkeyreads | 13 andre anmeldelser | Jan 25, 2024 |
I'm feeling and thinking lots of complicated things right now because of this book. Happiness and discomfort and regret and pride are a few. Some sections lit a fire under me to be a catalyst for change, and some sections made me feel like a helpless fuck-up. Mostly it made very clear that how I feel isn't the point, that POC & LGBTQ & QPOC's feelings are the point because theirs are the lives at stake. And that knowing these two things is not the goal line but the starting line.
 
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blueskygreentrees | 3 andre anmeldelser | Jul 30, 2023 |
As I read the first sentence of this book a small ball of tension formed inside my chest, a ball that would not go away until I set the book aside and went about the rest of my day. Even thinking of reading the book ("Maybe I'll go to the coffeeshop") caused the tension ball to form and harden. I don't know why I experienced this book so extremely and so physically. Maybe it's the fact that I knew there would be violence - it says so on the book jacket - and waiting for its appearance on the page was stressing me out. Maybe it's because I knew this book would have LGBTQ themes, and I was afraid of whether or not that would be attached to the promised violence. I just don't know. In any case, this book created the bizarre situation where I needed to read the book, ate it up, could not put it down, while at the same time experiencing very real and extreme levels of stress every time I touched the cover.

Okay, enough about all that, the main issue is: was it a good book, or not? Friends, it was a fantastic book.
… (mere)
 
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blueskygreentrees | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jul 30, 2023 |
Someone please get Skye back in therapy!!! This was really fun and quite witty. Skye had so many problems and I kept groaning because I felt so concerned with her mistakes, but it made the ultimate resolutions feel sweeter and she was incredibly redeemable. I especially loved the relationship with her mother and the idea of not forgiving, necessarily, but being able to move forward. Though the Nick situation got resolved way too quickly. I enjoyed this a lot!
 
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whakaora | 13 andre anmeldelser | Mar 5, 2023 |

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