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December Bonus Read- World AIDS Day

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Terrific novel, excellent.

aPriL does feral sometimes wrote: "Terrific novel, excellent."

I just started this book today! Very excited to read it :)

Yay! I hope you like it!

aPriL does feral sometimes wrote: "Yay! I hope you like it!"

Thank you! I am at the part where she finds out her uncle died (so pretty early on) and I am enjoying it currently :)

So I am almost 30% through and this book feels like it's moving slow. Did you feel that same way in the beginning?

Yes. Books like this can only ‘be savored’ as critics say, or endured if it isn’t clicking. The ones that I endure until the end sometimes surprise me because only after I finish it and discover what the intent was after the ending is revealed do I realize how good or bad the book was. Slow literary novels do this to me a lot. This one had me scratching my head until almost the end.

Hehe. I only finished it because it was the selection of another book club, but I liked it after awhile, maybe 2/3rds into the book?

The biggest problem I had with this book was the sisters’ reason for their estrangement did not make sense to me, given the reasons the author supposedly set up, and never gelled for me even after I finished. I had to just accept it. But how the estrangement affected the girls emotionally after the estrangement began seemed real.

A link to my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

My review is a lot how I interpreted the book after I finished it. You may not want to read my review now if you want more of an uninfluenced 'cold read' experience. Or you may completely disagree, of course! No worries. I do not think I am either thin-skinned or a martinet - only opinionated!

; )

Finished this book before work today! Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This book is extremely popular, so I was hoping for it to be better. This book never made me sit at the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next. In reality, this book took me much longer than it should have to finish. I wasn't eager to find out what happened next because almost everything in the book was predictable. However, I made it through the whole book, so it was entertaining enough for me to do that and that's why it received 3 stars.

This book takes place in 1987. The main character is 14-year-old June and she is best friends with her uncle, who is a renowned painter. When he dies of AIDS her whole world is turned upside down. However, his death brings a nice surprise of a new friend into June's life. BUT, she has to keep this person a secret from her family... And the sad truth is her new friend is also dying from AIDS...

I honestly don't remember whether I liked this book or not, which tells me it didn't make a huge impression. I do remember that I read it and a vague outline of the story... but that's about it :-(