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"everything beautiful", teen fiction

Riley rose, a "bad girl" atheist gets tricked into Christian camp

She meets Dylan

Dylan is in a wheelchair

Dylan tried and failed to commit suicide




It's totally fascinating

Catrin Collier- One Last Summer.

This is meant to be a novel fiction about the Great-grandmother of the author who had to endure and flee Soviet ravaged east Prussia, although she was a German. It includes diary entries of those she encountered and family members who fought for Nazi Germany.
Not really sure I'm keen on the style or write -up of this author, but if she's trying to re-interpret her ancestral past, through author based character description, she's retelling loads of other lives as well. It doesn't bear a shade to me on Harry Patch, the actual biographical account, as he was a fighting tommy, and WW1 veteran.
I'm still trying to get to the end of this, and seeing as I know all the characters names and could see that she lived amongst the upper classes who had to bite down on their ration sizes to supplement the army, I am trying hard not to see the reality of the fact that a few ton of war savaged Russian POW'S had to really go without food, as they were being forced into fields to starve and labour without rations. Some stole cats to eat, because her great granny was forbidden to feed them, being in charge because her pa died. She did face down the threat of being arrested, by cajoling officers into making sure they got washed and deloused because of a possible typhus outbreak as well as feeding them so they could manage the estate.
The whole echoing back to the past thing, is because she was on her deathbed and wanted to see her beloved Allenstein, before she departed from this life.
The fact is the book goes on and on, back to the present, then to the past. She is saying farewell to all her family, and her granddaughter has to be her guide back to her roots.
Next few books I read, will be back on terra firma.. hopefully more emphatic than the last.

--> (London, 2018)

Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck.

Decided to finally read this classic of tragic, doomed friendship.

The Victorians by the Rt. Hon. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, son of the late Baron William Rees-Mogg, once editor of The Times.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo in the Grishaverse series

I'm on holiday so I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence.

I'm just starting In Search of Anne Brontë, Nick Holland (History Press, 2017).

Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer.

Zigzag: A Nameless Detective Collection by Bill Prozini.

I just finished reading James and the Giant Peach with my little boy, and we’re going to start Pippy Longstocking tonight. Children’s books are so much fun!

Pippy Longstocking was a popular cartoon on TV during the 80s.

I really liked Pippy Longstocking as a kid, but I don’t think I ever saw the cartoon.

It’s a lot of fun to reread books I liked as a kid. My son loves them, too. His favorites so far have been the Wayside School books. He loves to laugh.

I was wrong. It was a 1997 cartoon. But I vaguely remember knowing about Pippi Longstocking in the 1980s.

I was a Swedish TV series in 1969.

Winners, by Danielle Steel.

A father wants to build a new rehab centre for spinal injury patients after his daughter fell off a ski lift and shattered her spine from the waist down.
The emergency surgeon who operated on her basically found out after that her husband died in a car crash but her son was left unscathed.
The bloke who wants to follow his suicide friends vision and set up this rehab thing, is basically a pig to the woman and carts his only child halfway across the world to see specialists who all concur that his daughters injuries are complete, meaning she won't walk again
In theory this book is supposed to be about survival but I already feel depressed reading it. At least the last one has some happy ending, the way this is going I'm sure sure if I'll make the end.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban