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Ladataan... Skye Falling (vuoden 2021 painos)Tekijä: Mia McKenzie (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Someone please get Skye back in therapy!!! This was really fun and quite witty. Skye had so many problems and I kept groaning because I felt so concerned with her mistakes, but it made the ultimate resolutions feel sweeter and she was incredibly redeemable. i think the further i get from this the more i will like it. for sure i liked it quite a bit by the end, but it took me a while to get into it. i was kind of annoyed by the tone to start with, and felt like her character was just so outlandish that i was more frustrated than invested. i also figured that the story was pretty predictable in the arc that it would take. and that was true, but i still found that by the end instead of being annoyed i was laughing, and instead of frustration i was rooting for her. i thought that actually the author tackled a lot of things, and made us think a lot more (and a lot more in depth) than the tone would have indicated. Our narrator, Skye, is a 37 year old African American lesbian from West Philly, who owns a successful travel business and leads a nomadic life with few long-term relationships. The plot of the book revolves around her having been an egg donor, years ago, and meeting the 12 year old who was a result of that. To be honest, Skye is so immature and annoying (crawling out of windows to escape people she doesn't want to talk to). that initially I didn't like the book. She evolves, however, and the book has fun twists and turns, and is also a nice description of West Philly. Also some good exploration of the process of integrating one's older and younger selves. Here's a part when she is talking to Faye, a former teen girl rapper, and asking if she misses rapping: "What I really miss, more than rhyming, is just....being young in Philly. On a night like tonight, when I was seventeen or eighteen, I'd have been with my friends on South Street, probably high, talking to guys who were too old for me, never imagining that one day I'd be forty-two. You just never conceive that there will come a time when you're not young anymore, when your whole life won't be in front of you. You know?" ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases. But then a twelve-year-old girl shows up during one of Skye's brief visits to her hometown of Philadelphia, and tells Skye that she's "her egg." Skye's life is thrown into sharp relief and she decides that it might be time to actually try to have a meaningful relationship with another human being. Spoiler alert: It's not easy. Things gets even more complicated when Skye realizes that the woman she tried and failed to pick up the other day is the girl's aunt and now it's awkward. All the while, her brother is trying to get in touch, her problematic mother is being bewilderingly kind, and the West Philly pool halls and hoagie shops of her youth have been replaced by hipster cafes. Told in a fresh, lively voice, this novel is a relentlessly clever, deeply moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I’m not sure how I came across this but it was a fun ride. Skye is our main character and she is a pretty big mess of a person as she is approaching midlife but thanks to the excellent narration I managed to find her funny and loveable by the end of the book.
She is a prickly loner but when the child of her youthful egg donation finds her one day it sets Skye on a path that helps her make new relationships and mend some old ones all while falling back in love with her home town: Philadelphia.
“I’m happy to be in Philly. The people I love live here and so do I.” ( )