Honestly, this book was beautiful. It was nostalgic and poetic, full of artfully crafted prose that made me ache. It's compulsively readable, quotable, and all around just an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone with a taste for emotionally charged, character driven books that star imperfec...
Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, brining home the next stepfather. Anna is left on her own—until she disco...
***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-sentence summary: A beautifully written, appropriately (which means "quite") explicit novel about a young woman's growing understanding of both her sexuality and her real value in the world. The plot, so I won't forget. When Anna wa...
When I started Uses for Boys, I had it pegged. “This,” I thought, “is a book a I will appreciate, but not like very much.” It’s apparent from very early on that Scheidt is an excellent writer, and the understated style of the book was well done. But–it also felt Literary and Important and I’m biased...
Before you read this book, ask yourself these questions: - Are you okay with graphic sex scenes? - What exactly are you expecting out of this book? - Are you fine with unlikable characters, or characters that make decisions that you might not ever make? Even if they bend morals or values you’ve know...
Uses for Boys reminds me of something. And I think, though it's been ages since I read it, that the something is Go Ask Alice.Anna starts very young, with just her and her mother, where she is her mother's whole world and Anna feels very separate from every one else. When her mother expands her own ...
It could have been so much better. It was a story that went on and on without a payoff. I wish Anna and the other characters were more developed. A good book about a girl who uses sex to ease her pain but has a solid character transformation, please read The D.U.F.F. by Kody Kepling.
Pros:* Stark, bare, raw writing* Unreliable (lost) narrator * Captures something haunting * Entire actions and scenes are captures in a sentence or twoCons:* Bare bones narration combined with shakiness of the narrator makes you wonder how much is true or is really happening.* Entire actions and sce...
Anna used to be everything to her mother, but when she got older her mother started dating man after man and ignoring Anna completely. Anna has to make her own way, survive the only way she knows how.This novel caught me by surprise. Anna is a confused girl in a messed up world where she is lonely a...
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