Category Archives: 2016

[Review] True Letters from a Fictional Life — Kenneth Logan

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Book Title: True Letters from a Fictional Life
Author:      Kenneth Logan
Number of pages:  336

Synopsis:

true letters from a fictional life - kenneth logan book coverIf you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they’d tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy.

But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world–letters he never intends to send–he spills the truth: he’s trying hard, but he just isn’t into Theresa. It’s a boy who lingers in his thoughts.

(re: Goodreads @ True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan)


Should this book be picked up? the tl;dr review:

– Male LGBT version of “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” with letters woven into the story
– Protagonist takes on more of a reactive role instead of truly coming to his own self discovery
– Family dynamics and bromance game is strong
– Romance may be slow burn but felt lackluster
– A solid entry to LGBT YA contemporary reads

Initial Thoughts

Shelly (Read, Sleep, Repeat) told me to read this. So I did.

Disclaimer: I received an ARC of True Letters from a Fictional Life from Indigo.


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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #117 – Books Set Outside of the USA

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
Books Set Outside of the USA

Initial Thoughts:

My repertoire of non-USA (sans Fantasy) settings is quite limited so it is most certainly a repeat of an earlier list probably.


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[Awards/Tags] — 2016 Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag

Awards/Tags is the tagline to store random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. They may involve tags, awards, challenges, and other book blogging nonsense.

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Awards/Tags
Mid-Year Book Freak Tag

I feel like I was tagged to do this last year but it never came up in my drafting queue to actually write it up — and now I am too lazy to recheck who tagged me then but that’s okay.

Thanks for tagging me Jess @ Princessica of Books!


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