Reddit mentions of Y

Right now I'm finishing up Y by Marjorie Celona. I won an ARC from the publisher so I figured I should read it now and get a review up on Goodreads before it's released (in Canada anyway) at the end of August. It's good but I'm not quite sure how I feel about it just yet. It's a very dark and at times depressing story about a girl who was left on the steps of a YMCA when she was just hours old and it's the story of her going through foster care and what bad situations can do to a child growing up. She wants to find her biological parents, even if they are deadbeats, just answer the nagging questions of "who she is" while she grows up. It's a debut novel so I'm usually a bit more forgiving with those but I can definitely tell that the writing was improving as the story went on. The characters seemed to become richer and more alive later in the book. It's a pretty serious and emotionally draining book at times but it's really good.

I think after this one I am going to finally get around to reading Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, book 3 in the Chaos Walking trilogy and and get that finished up. I started it a few months ago and then got into some other books so I didn't read the third one. Looking forward to get this one done. I loved the other two.

I'm going to try and set a To Be Read list for the next couple of months. I'm hoping I don't get too distracted by finding new books that grab my interest and stick to the list. I have some good ones lined up I think, some good ones coming out this Fall that I've got my eye on.