Another Wednesday, another Road Trip.
This week,
YA Highway wants to know what you loved reading in October.
I took a wee break from YA this month to read some books that have been on my To-Read list for ages. (And I
still haven't finished them. Why? Because they're on my fake-Kindle, and I realize now that I have a terrible time getting through books on my "laptop version" of Kindle. I guess I need a REAL Kindle for Christmas.)
But holy canoli, what I did read blew my heart right out of my chest. This is the innocuous cover:
Lamb is about an 11-year-old girl named Tommie who meets a middle-aged man named David Lamb. Bonnie Nadzam is a gorgeous writer. Every line is crafted, but not with the kind of pen that makes you stumble over clunky or outrageous metaphors; her writing is so fluid, you slip down into her deep, dark well of a story and you are
lost. Your soul gets a little lost while you're reading Lamb because this storyworld will encompass you from the moment you meet Tommie. It is rich and disturbing and necessary reading, as difficult as it may be, for everyone.
Highly recommended.
