Reviews Posted This Week
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Reading Now
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.
But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both.
Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship–one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self–even if she’s not exactly sure who that is. (From Goodreads)
I had started reading this and was going to put it aside because it was slow moving but then I heard that it had been banned from a summer reading list in one school district. Interestingly, the objection to the book was that there was profanity in it, not that it is about teenage lesbianism. Is this progress in a warped way?
Still Listening To:
Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge
I’m at the part in this book where (SPOILER ALERT) women are getting uppity and don’t want to go into service for their betters anymore. It is such a tragedy. How will the aristocracy survive?
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‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ sounds like an amazing book! I think ‘profanity’ might have been used as an excuse to get it banned, when really it was about the same-sex relationship! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Juli @ Universe in Words
Her feelings about the death of her parents is interesting. Doesn’t seem like these are the folks she should move with whether relatives or not. I think she’ll go through a lot of life changes after the unexpected deaths of her parents.
Those two both sound interesting. I hope you enjoy them. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
The Servants sounds very interesting! I haven’t read Phillippa Gregory in quite a while – I read all her Tudor books and then moved on to other historical fiction authors…I really need to get back to her as I enjoy her writing.
Have a great week!
~Kristin @ Always With a Book
I always get so frustrated when I hear a book has been banned. I certainly understand when parents ask that I not check out certain books to their own children; that is definitely within a parent’s rights, especially with young children. But banned for everyone?!
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I wonder if the objection to The Miseducation of Cameron Post was based on the language as the more politically correct choice? It’s important teens have access to books that reflect same sex relationships, it’s disappointing to learn this has been banned in some areas.
Have a great reading week,
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
I do so like the sound of Servants!
The Miseducation of Cameron Post sounds like a good book. That is ironic that the book was banned for strong language rather than same-sex relationships. Yes, I guess — in an odd way — that does represent progress.