I am a reader, I feel like I always have been. I am constantly surrounded by books in both my personal and professional worlds.
I have read excessively since the second grade. I have attempted, again and again, to keep a list of the books I've read and how I felt about them but so far have been unsuccessful. This is an attempt to keep track of the books I'm reading, and my thoughts about them. My goal is to publish at least one review a week (no promises though). Wish me luck!
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Friday, January 18, 2013
"Love & Leftovers" by Sarah Tregay
I'm glad to see more and more novels in verse. I just love them! Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay is
a kinda what you'd expect teenage story. Marcie and her mother take
off on "vacation" when Marcie's father comes out of the closet. This
vacation consists mainly of Marcie entertaining herself while her mother
attempts to recover from the shock. The two do not return to Idaho and
Marcie starts at a new school. There she meets a new love interest
(but never breaks off her relationship back home. Which of course
becomes a problem later in the novel). The two become crazy close,
despite Marcie's mother's wishes and soon Marcie is sent back home to
live with her father and his new boyfriend. Marcie finds herself once
again surrounded by the "leftovers' (her friends in Idaho) and has to
figure out how to go back to her old life even though she had gone
through many changes. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It's a fast read, but I think that many novels in verse are. The plots are usually so well thought out, that it usually doesn't take a lot of extra wording to get the story out. I certainly look forward to reading more by this author and hopes she puts out some more versework soon!
Tregay has all sorts of cool L&L stuff on here website!
So glad you liked this one too. It was one of my favorites last year, and the first book I had really read in verse. Great story, the emotion still came through and it was very relatable.
So glad you liked this one too. It was one of my favorites last year, and the first book I had really read in verse. Great story, the emotion still came through and it was very relatable.
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