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YA Historical Fiction with a Lot to Dissect

May 4, 2018 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

“For eighteen years I’ve believed what other people told me about what was right and what was wrong. From now. I’m deciding.” I have seen a few very favorable reviews of this YA novel already, and I must say that I too really liked it for both the clear writing style, but also the handling of the serious subject matter therein, though I do think that perhaps one side of the story was much stronger than the other. Lies We Tell Ourselves shifts between the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: lies we tell ourselves, robin talley

What We Need to Get By (CANNONBALL!)

November 5, 2015 by ModernLove 24 Comments

I’ve done it. I have found the perfect book, and I have reached the goal. 52 books read and reviewed in just over 10 months, and boy, am I hitting this milestone with a dozy. This is absolutely a contender for Book of the Year.  Lies We Tell Ourselves is a book about desegregation in 1959 Virginia. It’s a book about accepting who we are and realizing that sometimes we are so much more important that we think. It’s a book about challenging the views that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, lies we tell ourselves, modernlove, robin talley, YA lit

UGH THIS WAS SO GOOD YOU GUYS

October 8, 2015 by narfna 7 Comments

First, maybe don’t even bother reading this review. Just go get the book somehow. Borrow it. Buy it. Get on your Kindle. Steal it. No, don’t steal it. Get the book legally. Then read it. More people need to read this. I can’t believe it’s not more popular than it is. No, wait. Scratch that. I can believe it. I can believe it because this book isn’t one that lets you get away with your shit. It confronts you, makes you uncomfortable, and asks you […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: brown vs the board of education, desegregation, historical fiction, lesbian romance, lgbt, lies we tell ourselves, narfna, robin talley, Young Adult

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