#kate reed petty

[mmepastel]

Excellent roman.

Pas tant par le sujet que par les biais narratifs empruntés pour raconter l’histoire.

Lors d’une fête arrosée, une lycéenne ivre et inconsciente est ramenée chez elle par deux autres lycéens qu’elle connaît à peine. Une fois déposée chez elle, les garçons se vantent d’avoir abusé d’elle auprès de leur bande de potes. Seule son amie, témoin du récit des garçons éméchés, est scandalisée. Quand l’affaire prend de l’ampleur, les deux agresseurs se rétractent et nient en bloc… que s’est-il passé à l’arrière de cette voiture ? Quelles répercussions pour chacun ?

L’histoire est abordée par différents angles et différents personnages : un des potes présent à la soirée, meilleur ami d’un des agresseurs présumés, la victime, dont on peut lire des mails ou des rédactions, des extraits de scripts (Alice, la victime, écrivait des scénarios de films horrifiques avec sa meilleure amie Haley au lycée), des échanges de mails dans un forum…

C’est toute l’originalité du roman que de tourner autour de la vérité, en s’intéressant aux mentalités des uns et des autres, avec une nette insistance sur l’exigence de virilité des jeunes hommes (ici, membres d’une équipe sportive où la camaraderie est compliquée par la rivalité), les soirées de beuveries qui peuvent bousiller les plus fragiles (l’addiction et la dépendance commencent parfois là).

Au fond, les discours que les gens se tiennent ou qu’ils balancent aux autres recouvrent la vérité, ils finissent par la supplanter. C’est de cela aussi que parle le livre, du langage, des fictions qu’on se raconte, pour s’absoudre, s’inventer, s’arranger avec le réel. Les rumeurs, les réputations, leur importance. La place qu’elles prennent. Le manque d’intérêt réel pour autrui, pour celui ou celle qui est en face de soi. Les apparences qui dominent.

Comme je ne veux pas divulgâcher le récit, je vais m’arrêter là, et conseiller ce livre chaudement, en ajoutant qu’il évoque astucieusement notre époque, son avidité de story telling, sa tendance à la post-vérité.

[agnesmontague]

book nonnie from yesterday here hi~

I saw that review too, after we had chatted and it really put me off from reading the book :(

[referring to this]

hi nonnie, late reply sorry but i see we had similar experiences--

silver lining is that the review in question helped me find True Story by kate reed petty, which i found to be a more skillful and direct look at the same topic while not being exhaustingly overwrought; neither book is a knock-out favorite but i would happily recommend True Story above IHSQFY if what you're looking for is a post-#metoo novel with more focus on the repercussions than the trauma of the act itself. TS has a fair share of negative reviews from people who imo were not exactly the target audience for it, and it is one i'd recommend going into blind bc the twists and turns give it a decent cohesion that left me feeling like i'd at least read something with some heft to it even if i can see why it might be polarizing

[unholyfms]

MWF?

Hello, nonnie! We would love to see... Laura Harrier, Samantha Logan, Sarah Bolger, Emma Corrin, Madison Pettis, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ashley Moore, Margot Robbie, Savannah Smith, Danielle Brooks, Sai Bennet, Jessica Sula, Neslihan Atagul, Bahar Sahin, Jeanine Mason, Yvonne Orji, Elizabeth Lail, Sun Yihan, Aimee Carrero, Angelababy, Crystal Reed, Cemre Baysel, Amita Suman, Christina Ochoa, Madison Iseman, Lucy Boyton, Britt Robertson,, Alisha Wainwright, Jessica Cores, Brianne Tju, Adria Arjona, Halle Bailey, Alara Turan, Abigail Cowen, Emma Stone, Isla Fisher, Kate Mara, Jung Ho-yeon, Dilan Çiçek Deniz, Hafsanur Sancaktutan, Melisa Döngel, Nesrin Cavadzade, Jessica Henwick, Rose Leslie, Zhu Zhu, Amita Suman, Anya Cholatra, Karen Gillan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Sujaya Dasgupta, Anya Taylor Joy, Vanessa Morgan, Alexandra Park, Alicia Vakander, Arden Cho, Aubrey Plaza, Deniz Isin, Phoebe Tonkin, Saorise Ronan, Candice Patton, Gabrielle Union, Chloe Bennett, Dianne Guerrero, Han Seung Yeon, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Madelyn Cline, Krysten Ritter, Adeline Rudolph, Kristen Stewart, Greta Onieogou, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Bruna Marquezine, Ivana Baquero, Jaz Sinclair, Carmela Zumbado, Kate Siegel, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lauren Ridloff, and Richa Moorjani! We have a few suggestions on our wanted connections as well which can be found here.

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Bilan perso #116

Les livres reçus   ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Chien  51 de Laurent Gaudé Faut pas rêver de Pascale Dietrich Le vertige de la peur de Linwood Barclay Clones de la nation tome 2, Je suis Marie de Maiwenn Alix ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Belle morte tome 1 de Bella Higgin La cabane aux confins du monde de Paul Tremblau True story de Kate Reed Petty La jeune femme est l’ogre de John Connolly ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ L’Affaire Amityville, le meurtre de la…

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The Essence of Cool Season 1 w/ Carole Pope

Fridays 10am-12pm and Sundays 2pm-4pm EST bombshellradio.com In the debut episode, we talk to Carole Pope about her storied career as the vocalist/lyricist for the legendary Canadian band Rough Trade. We also discuss Kate Bush and Bjork, whom she has chosen as the "essence of cool". For more information, visit carolepope.com  ABOUT THE HOST  Bernard Frazer is a Canadian songwriter/musician whose synth pop band Church of Trees has topped independent charts around the world. He is also a former television producer/writer of such shows as Real Life with Erica Ehm (Life Network), The Dini Petty Show (CTV), Miracle at Niagara, and New Year's Eve Niagara Falls In Season 2, we've scheduled episodes with the great Phil Thornalley (The Cure, Duran Duran, etc), Kevin Hearn (Lou Reed, Barenaked Ladies), Men without Hats' Ivan Doroschuk, legendary rocker June Millington (Fanny, Earl Slick, Bonnie Raitt), the great Jay Semko of 5-time Juno nominated Northern Pikes, indie star Vicki Brittle, and more. We've also scheduled a series of episodes discussing the life and musical impact of Canadian producer, and songwriter, Tim Thorney (Alanis Morrisette, Cassandra Vasik, etc). For this very special series, we'll be joined by former Much Music VJ Erica Ehm, Juno award-winner Hill Kourkoutis, 'drummer to the stars' Randy Cooke, Tim's brother Tom, and Tim's longtime engineer and friend, Adam Fair. Stay Tuned! Read the full article

[libidomechanica]

Whether

Whether young Lochinvar. waive you the  prime, ill leave they dare not: Thus lay she asked:  Melchior? He wonder, which are mostly  mine; Ive paid, in truth, the  ground was soon as I were  close, drove us, then, have faculty by  nature under head. The trees, a  thousand errors note; but ere her mournful  head, nor burnt the Three per Cents; “ whose way is wildernesse, whose approach the  sun, that love so wan, clothed with 

chamfred browes, full of eggs, and all,  comes nectar at the dregs of love.”  Nobody sent you to hurt  you, entreating your love, the warbling  his story the birds,  the bitterly. S daughters of  the sand that burne so cleerly, and  you in me to discharge  her face, not to choose against  another set, swear by St sometimes  strife; you have helpd out: Is your only 

poet;—passion free their neighbours lot, I  think it would die like candle. Nothing that  hails premier or king! But when  that this immensive cup of  aromatic wine, which state the  rich no more delights in Chancery,—which  makes her lips more than pleasant nights with  a broken-hearted from  hot baths to snows are the  ringlets from blood-shed fly, and snebbe the  ghost of Scandal of old friend 

became a kind of reed to  learn its life at strife with  those two bulks at Aracs word is thrice had seen  so much that he meantime neglected  childrens, know hunger. Meanwhile thus he that  winter with a bitter  wound the bone: cash rules the ground  I sit and sighed to a steel  and with hymnes thy dear love that  hast thou laesie ladde, of Winters rage, when  the banners holds fast asleep. 

My brothers, and to greet the  doors, and all-oblivion laid his  taste. Make in my soul, the child was  gone, this gently heaving, as  an inland sea? There can look from  far ; draw near and this Papa foolishness,  she cried. Smooth-sliding sickles coming home, then  brings me back to you: the only  one for her cast Boys, or  had, an early morning makes the third,  and bound a musket beside, 

if you saw some wild winds an opener  door I fall in comes my heart, and  on the single band of his  mazde power obey. the petty  done, she remember loved you, and  bonny, her cheeks, or lips shall Pity  soothe the pianist  plays an encore. Became his  face, speak, yet well fare. He yields, or writes, or  drives, after all men, and talked “with  the watery face against 

all men upon paper animals; and  the honey dew. ‘Well, Sir, from tongues  tune delight than if Kate o the  farmer of fat prize-oxen and purple  and somewhat to play  with holy water, the dear  to wet a widows eye that  which you may acceptance, sir, to  you’ I caught feign death! Eclipse,  and climb, so name my dearest of  light, and pleasing sounds shake againe.”

[aforcedelire]

True Story, Kate Reed Petty

𝓡𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻é𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽é𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓻𝓮 2021 • 𝓢𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓮 𝓵𝓮 19 𝓪𝓸û𝓽

Dans ce roman, on suit Alice Lovett, une jeune femme talentueuse et solitaire. Elle travaille en tant que prête-plume et écrit les histoires des autres à leur place. Pourtant, elle reste hantée par la seule histoire qui lui échappe : sa propre vie, et cette rumeur, lancée à l’été 1999 par deux ados éméchés. Que s’est-il exactement passé sur la banquette arrière de cette voiture, alors que les deux garçons la ramenaient chez elle ? Ce roman est l’histoire d’une rumeur, et de ses conséquences.

J’ai adoré ! Pour le moment, c’est mon roman préféré de la rentrée littéraire. J’ai surtout été charmée par le style et par la façon dont l’histoire de True Story nous est racontée : on survole les événements de 1999 à 2015 en alternant les points de vue et les formats — roman, dissertation annotée, script, mail… C’est frais, c’est agréable, et on avance dans la lecture sans se rendre compte des pages qui défilent. L’histoire d’Alice retourne le cerveau, elle prend au cœur ; et pourtant, rien de « trop » violent — ce n’est pas aussi cruel que Betty, par exemple.

Énorme coup de cœur ! ♥️

02/08/2021 - 03/08/2021

[velvetandchampagne]

Stacking the Shelves #5

Stacking the Shelves #5

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s reviews and you can find the original post here, for more details and guidelines. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course…

[rathertoofondofbooks]

Mini Book Reviews: The Thursday Murder Club | True Story | Watch Over You | Precious You

Mini Book Reviews: The Thursday Murder Club | True Story | Watch Over You | Precious You

I’m sharing some more mine reviews today of books that I’ve read over the last couple of months. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman This was one of my most anticipated books of last year so I was thrilled when I got a copy for Christmas and I devoured it in one sitting! Needless to say I completely and utterly loved it! The novel follows four people in a retirement village who meet up…

[mrdavidsloach]

Chasma Knights, written by Kate Reed Petty and illustrated by Boya Sun (First Second, 2018)

Chasma Knights is a candy colored celebration of chemistry and engineering. The main character, Beryl is a Neon Knight who cannot use the special toys that most knights use. She finds the toys that have been broken and discarded by other knights and fixes them up or combines them into new and inventive alloys.  Each knight represents an element and, depending on the element of the toy they interact with, there are different effects.  

Beryl bemoans the consumerist nature of the Knights and takes the discarded toys to her workshop to repair and care for them. She meets an Oxygen Knight who follows her back to her lab of misfit toys. There is a clear difference between the two since the Oxygen Knight, Coro doesn’t understand why Beryl would want to keep such useless and boring toys. Together they learn about the discarded toys and work together to try something new.

The graphic novel introduces a lot of new vocabulary that the reader may have to look up. For instance, when a Coro the Oxygen Knight, demonstrates a new toy, she chants, “’OXYGEN, CHROME, RECOGNIZE!! MEET, MERGE, CATALYZE!’” (Petty, 22) This activates the toy. A younger elementary student interested in science or would enjoy the book, but it’s appeal may be more with middle-grade readers.

The panels are bordered with thick black lines with a clean white gutter between. There are a few one or two page spreads showing the rolling, squishy landscape with sparkling gumdrop hills and domed houses. The illustrations themselves are soft with curved lines and round faces and eyes. There are very few straight lines beyond the panel boarders, and even then, the corners are rounded. The colors are bright and sweet, but never fully saturated giving the entire book a comfortable feeling. There are sections in the back with information about the characters and Chasma Knights in general. It also encourages the reader to make their own Chasma Knight and gives examples of elements.

The book would pair well with a makerspace activity such as a toy-take-apart, where old or broken toys with speaker boxes or electronic parts are donated and the kids encouraged to don their safety glasses and use screwdrivers to open them up and see how they tick. The book could also be paired with a science experiment where the elements used in the book are discussed or possibly used in an experiment, such as elephant toothpaste (hydrogen and oxygen.)

[theblackestofsuns]

“Foosh”

Chasma Knights by Boya Sun and Kate Reed Petty

Defend Comics (FCBD 2018)

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

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Middle School Monday: The Leak by Kate Reed Petty & Andrea Bell

Ruth Keller was taking very good care of her teeth, but her dentist didn’t believe her. This was just the beginning of a tangled story involving a young girl who dreamed of being a journalist, the people who wanted to support her or silence her, and a toxic substance that she found in a lake in her neighborhood. This is a story about school, family, friendship, and trying to do what’s right, even if nobody else believes you at first.

Give this book to older kids and younger teens who are fans of graphic novels, journalists, and uncovering the truth.

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School Library Journal Free Virtual Event: 'Middle Grade Magic' Featuring Surfside Girls Creator, Kim Dwinell

School Library Journal Free Virtual Event: ‘Middle Grade Magic’ Featuring Surfside Girls Creator, Kim Dwinell

This just in and happening today: Kim Dwinell, the writer and artist of Top Shelf Productions’ – an imprint of IDW Publishing  – acclaimed middle-grade graphic novel series Surfside Girls, will be featured on the panel “Eco-Activism and Environmental Adventures” as part of School Library Journal’s virtual event, “Middle-Grade Magic,” a day-long celebration of authors and creators dedicated to…

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Review: True Story by Kate Reed Petty

There are few things I love more than a truly unique thriller and that’s what I was expecting from True Story. I was super excited to get into it and although I enjoyed it for the most part, it wasn’t quite the page-turner I was hoping for.

Told through layered points of view, the story of a rumoured sexual assault on a young girl by members of a high school lacrosse team circulates the community, when the girl attempts suicide. Fifteen years later, ghostwriter Alice, alcoholic Nick, filmmaker Haley and affluent business owner Richard are still dealing with the truth of what really happened that night and the effects it has had on their adult lives.

Male privilege is a big theme in the book, so be prepared for reams of misogyny from Nick and his teammates. Haley is a girl that Nick likes a lot and yet he still finds it really easy to criticise and belittle her and her opinions. Despite the book opening in 1999, slut shaming and objectification of women are still rife today, so it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that these attitudes still exist within the minds of teenage boys.

‘And anyway if she tried to commit suicide, didn’t it only prove that she was unstable, the kind of person who drank too much and regretted it after?’

One thing I was really impressed by was Reed Petty’s ability, as a woman, to capture the essence of young guys sticking fast to their loyalties and ‘logical’ reasons for doing and defending terrible actions. We all know that these guys exist and everything about their thoughts and conversations rang true. It’s extremely unsettling reading but thoroughly believable.

As the rumoured victim of the assault, Alice’s life has unsurprisingly been shaped by what happened. She can’t really remember what happened to her that night but she is devastated by the mere possibility that she could have been violated. Her early sexual experiences have led her to fall into an abusive relationship with a man she calls Q. Like most battered women, she appears to idolise him and watching her decline into illness and dependence was horrific.

As Alice begins to emerge from her trance, we get some vital lessons and red flag indicators for women in the text. I really enjoyed this aspect of the novel too and I could tell that Reed Petty’s intention was to amplify Alice’s voice and story as a sexual assault victim. However, I didn’t really think that her character was terribly well developed and therefore, I lacked a true empathetic connection with her. There was also this shadow over the whole situation as to whether she actually was assaulted or not, which again made it hard to fully rely on her version of events.

The book changes perspective quite regularly and I didn’t grasp much of Nick’s strand at all. He fell into alcoholism after high school and takes a trip to a log cabin that belongs to an apparent ex girlfriend called Lindsey, whose trust he is desperate to win back. After a drink-fuelled, violent episode in the cabin, his fragile psyche is splayed wide open and although he wasn’t ever the accused perpetrator of the assault, he seems to carry an enormous amount of guilt over it. It was difficult to follow and with the constant perspective changes, it simply left me utterly confused as to the natural connections between the characters’ adult stories.

True Story is a book that merges several genres including mystery, suspense, literary fiction and in some places, it even reads like a YA drama. It’s an interesting read with some important lessons but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it. The characters lacked depth, the story was pretty confused and there wasn’t quite enough tension to hold my interest. 

‘It is amazing what can begin to seem normal just because it happens all the time.’

[bookish-thinking]

Coming Soon ...

For August, I only have four upcoming releases that I want to share with you, and all of them are coming out tomorrow, August 4th. 

“The Death of Vivek Oji”, by Akwaeke Emezi, a highly praised novel set in Nigeria, exploring LGBT and mental health themes, as well as friendships, family and political unrest. I loved Akwaeke Emezis first novel, “Freshwater”, and am looking forward to this one, too. 

“The Boys’ Club” by Erica Katz explores a woman’s rise to power in a big cooperation, but also the realization that she as a woman might never make it all the way to the top, and the price she has had to pay already. But who made those rules, anyway, and can she change them? 

“Luster” by Raven Leilani is a debut novel about the coming of age of a young black woman in the midst of racial and social issues, growing up, learning about herself, and exploring non-conventional sexual practices. 

“True Story” by Kate Reed Petty plays with genres and narrative norms, telling the story of two college students and our society’s way of dealing with gender, misconceptions and prejudices, memories, and the truth.