James Townsend > Recent Status Updates

This is a very good book that I borrowed from the library on May 26th, 2026, but has automatically renewed on June 16th, 2026 because I have not finished it yet, and because nobody else is waiting for it from the library. Set during the Honduran presidential election in 2017, the book follows Libertad Morazan, a high school senior whose 18th birthday falls on September 15.

Excellent and engrossing.

She's spot-on. Bella DePaulo is a never-married social scientist who studies single people and the unique challenges they face. For me, this is a re-read, and the first time around I found myself nodding in agreement with the concept of singlism (which is marital-status-based, color-blind racism) and the many ways in which, in contemporary American society, we are pushed aside, made to pay more for the same things.