Tag: bettysbookclub
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we are okay
We Are Okay is Marin’s story. She tells of her confusion and grief as she moves on from high-school and begins university, leaving behind her loved ones and her beloved beach on the Californian coast. There are some really beautiful descriptions which communicate that feeling of being on top of the world. Marin says of…
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we have always lived in the castle
The story is told through the eyes of Mary Katherine ‘Merricat’ Blackwood, a botany loving eighteen-year-old with a serious case of what we first think is magical-delusion meets OCD. When her normal weekly routine is interrupted, she says: “I had nothing to do. I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no…
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howl’s moving castle
I have loved Studio Ghibli films since I first saw The Cat Returns about fifteen years ago. My current top five are: Pom Poko, Spirited Away, The Wind Rises, The Cat Returns and of course, My Neighbour Totoro (I’m all about that Cat Bus). As I am on this learning-films-were-books-first streak, I decided to pick…
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high fidelity
For those who have managed not to know the High Fidelity storyline – protagonist Fleming is fresh out of a long-term relationship with Laura, and he goes to great effort to convince himself that he is fine with this (even though he’s obviously devastated and beginning to question his entire life’s trajectory because of it).…
Bethany Loveridge 