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A review by kayleighroyston
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
5.0
I love that I simultaneously read and listened to this one and I feel like the narrator lent more to the book than I would have expected.
I knew this book would hit me right in the feels but I thought I was going to escape it when I was through the first third. I was not. I was crying through the last quarter and wanted to curl up with it and not put it down yet.
"She couldn't put into words why she had gathered these photos together, but she could feel it in her bones: a hot and restless urge to look - and, by looking, to know."
Lily is desperate to see herself somewhere and once she finally did, the questions and longing with acceptance and moving forward was so raw and vulnerable and everything I wish I'd read sooner.
“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?”
The sense of self and discovery from Lilys story throughout was real and raw and honest.
“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”- Gut punch.
I knew this book would hit me right in the feels but I thought I was going to escape it when I was through the first third. I was not. I was crying through the last quarter and wanted to curl up with it and not put it down yet.
"She couldn't put into words why she had gathered these photos together, but she could feel it in her bones: a hot and restless urge to look - and, by looking, to know."
Lily is desperate to see herself somewhere and once she finally did, the questions and longing with acceptance and moving forward was so raw and vulnerable and everything I wish I'd read sooner.
“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?”
The sense of self and discovery from Lilys story throughout was real and raw and honest.
“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”- Gut punch.