This is a story about a young girl who starts life on the doorstep of the Y, abandoned by her Mother right after being born. We taken on a journey of discovery to find out why Shannon's life started at the Y.There are some squirmy bits in Shannon's life for sure. But there are also some great insi...
There are times that I think it might be a good idea to have warning labels on teen books. When I was an impressionable teen (are there any other kind?) I found myself reading The Bell Jar, a book that spiraled me into a six-month-long depression. (I blame Bell Jar, in any case, for my senior year a...
In the first fifty pages I thought I wouldn't like this book. It seemed to be one quick character sketch after another, but then it became something more. The writing in this book is amazing. The author is a master at subtly changing the voice of the main character as she grows older. The other ...
A baby is abandoned at the Y. Why? Why do people choose the forks in the path that they do? People are so often incapable of recognising choices. They lack a perceptual awareness of their own abilities to influence their own course through their life. The novel follows the story of the abandoned...
This story was incredibly sad. Not in a cry-your-eyes-out way, though. We meet Shannon as she's being dropped off on the front step of the YMCA in Victoria, BC. We follow her growing up, being transferred from home to home, until she is adopted by Miranda. But it's not all roses from there, she stru...
Inasmuch as I admired sections of this, and the very end is great, I found it felt too much like short stories forced into the novel form. Marjorie is a talented writer and I look forward eagerly to what she writes next.
I received this book as part of the goodreads first reads program.This is going to be a hard review for me, I was really excited to win this book, and I had high expectations for it, but for some reason, I could not connect with any of the characters, and I did not enjoy it. It was not the writing ...
When I originally received the email pitching Y by Marjorie Celona for this blog tour, there was something about it that just jumped out at me and made me want to read the book. I received the book and decided not to pick it up and read it right away. I decided to do a little experiment. As much ...
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