Slowly going crazy
34. Coffeehouse Angel – Suzanne Selfors
35. Mortal Sin – Laurie Breton
How do you describe the feelings you get when you read a truly, truly excellent book? Both of the above belong to the tiny category of books I’d recommend to just about anybody. Coffeehouse Angel is the rare young adult novel that doesn’t have me tearing my eyes out at the stupidity of teenage protagonists, and it delivers a message without beating you over the head with it. It doesn’t hurt that I identify terribly with Katrina’s feelings of lacking a purpose.
Mortal Sin was just amazing. It takes an extremely difficult subject (a romance with a Catholic priest) and handles it with finesse. I can’t tell you how many times I feared the issue of Clancy’s priesthood was just going to be pushed aside or waved off, but these characters confront their problems head on. I want these characters to be real. That’s how much I believe in them.
Happy readings aside, there’s still a dark cloud in my day. A few days ago I got pre-overdue notice from my library saying Evil Genius has not been returned yet. Now, I don’t have a specific memory of returning that book — I’ve read and returned a lot of books this year — but I would have assumed I returned it the day I picked up the sequel, March 25 according to this blog. The only reason I can imagine I would have held onto it is so I could refer back to it while I was reading Genius Squad. However, by the time I finished reading GS, EG was out of sight, out of mind. I went to the library, and it wasn’t on the shelf, crushing my hopes that it might have been missed while being checked in. I’ve turned the house upside down looking for it, and all I’ve learned is that I’m also missing a lint brush. I only keep that lint brush in one of two places, it can’t have gone far! It’s a big book — and a big lint brush — so I can’t imagine how either one of them could be hiding. Right now my only idea is to keep going back to the library every few days in hopes that it turns up there.
I really don’t know what else to do. I’ve never lost a library book before, and this is seriously bugging me. I ended up making cupcakes, so I hope I’ll feel better soon. They should be cool enough to frost now, so bye.
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