Elissa Janine Hoole
Elissa Janine Hoole has a longstanding love of road trips and beat writers, but it was a summer-long ramble out West that inspired this debut novel, when she and her husband set off across the country with a backpack full of Kerouac books. Now settled in her home in northern Minnesota, Elissa...
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Elissa Janine Hoole has a longstanding love of road trips and beat writers, but it was a summer-long ramble out West that inspired this debut novel, when she and her husband set off across the country with a backpack full of Kerouac books. Now settled in her home in northern Minnesota, Elissa teaches middle school English and writes until midnight, sipping cold coffee and ignoring the laundry.She still suffers from acute wanderlust from time to time, but road trips now involve a mini-van and a chorus of "Are we there yet?" from two small dharma bums-in-training.
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What a whack job! If one of the main characters in the novel is in a coma, anything can happen as the other characters can do anything and say anything and heck, you can believe it! I was reading this novel feeling sorry for Taylor as she was in an accident with Scott which left him in a coma. Tay...
I enjoyed this quite a bit, although it was not an easy read. That might be part of what made it so real. This deals with a lot of things--teen pregnancy, parenting and what it means, relationships and what they mean and attempting to cross that divide between teenager and adult without complete...
I'm not so sure what to say about Sometimes Never, Sometimes Always. It certainly is interesting and I think the subject matters are very relevant in this day and age. Religion and technology were both integrated to form the backdrop to Cass's story. Cass struggles with living in a family where she...
Cassandra Randall is a self-proclaimed atheist belonging to a very religious family. So when her teacher sets an assignment to write a poem to reflect themselves, she is stuck. She could never reveal what she truly feels because she feels that it might hurt her parents. Then there’s the matter of he...
http://www.divabooknerd.com/2013/09/sometimes-never-sometimes-always-by.htmlSometimes Never, Sometimes always could possibly be the coming of age novel that represents small town America. Cass is a follower but desperately wants to march to the beat of her own drum, she just doesn't know how. Her pa...
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