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I just finished reading When Everything Feels Like The Movies, By Raziel Reid… And my heart is still raw.
This book won the 2015 Canadian Governor Generals Award in young adult fiction and attracted much attention in doing so. (I can’t help but laugh a little… The main character Jude would have LOVED this!) I read a few heated articles about this book and its award. Some said, that the use of language, discussion of drugs, and graphic sex and violence in this book were too much of an adult topic ...more
This book won the 2015 Canadian Governor Generals Award in young adult fiction and attracted much attention in doing so. (I can’t help but laugh a little… The main character Jude would have LOVED this!) I read a few heated articles about this book and its award. Some said, that the use of language, discussion of drugs, and graphic sex and violence in this book were too much of an adult topic ...more
"When Everything Feels Like the Movies is a fun, glamorous romp that read to me at times like a contemporary, teen reference to Djuna Barnes’s modernist queer masterpiece Nightwood. Barnes’s classic is, perhaps, talked about more than it is read these days, which is a notion I find more shameful than even the most egregious granting of any given literary cash prize (including the 2011 Booker being given to The Sense of an Ending, the dribbly emission from Julian Barnes, who is unrelated to the a
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Jan 29, 2015
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marked it as to-read
