It felt like one huge missed opportunity, and also felt more like, as one reviewer put it, ticking a box on the diversity checklist rather than anything real. It's also a book that talks heavily about Ely's Jewishness, as she's grown up in an Orthodox Jewish family and is grappling with what religion means to her and her place among Jewish people after having been kicked out by her family.

The topics on substance abuse and addiction were well done (trigger warnings) and hard to read for so many reasons, but I couldn’t be happier to have read Ely and Wyatt’s story. So hard to put down in fact that I got distracted reading outside and ended up with a weird embarrassing sunburn. I also was especially drawn to the setting of Parker Art School, since once upon a time I spent two summer taking studio art and photography classes at the actual Parsons School of Art and Design in NYC. I loved how they found support in each other without making each other into their sole support system - they also build other meaningful relationships on the way.These two young people have such a deep connection; I was really rooting for them to figure out a way to be together despite the professional issues. The non-league football club Aldershot Town and the ominous ascension of Donald Trump don’t appear to have much in common, yet they happen to be the twin obsessions driving David Kynaston when he decided to keep a diary of the 2016/17 season.

Sitting in a dark theater he is about to tell Constable Twitten what he knows about an unsolved case from 1945 when there is "a shot in the dark" and Crystal is dead. In April of 2010 while at the annual National Association of Broadcaster's convention in Las Vegas, Holben was approched by the Boston-based publisher Cengage Learning to author a technical book for them. Sergeant Brunswick is the usual well-meaning and only slightly dim immediate superior, but Inspector Steine is mind-bogglingly stupid. And as Wyatt's walls begin to break down, each artist fights for what's right in front of them - a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible. While it's a romance, there is a large and lively supporting cast in a way that reminded me a bit of Casey McQuiston side characters.Ely is Jewish and left the community, but is now back in New York City not far from where she grew up.