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Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“I’m thinking I could spend the rest of my life becoming an expert at forgetting.” Heartbreaking, moving, and ultimately uplifting Last Night I Sang to the Monster is my favourite novel by Sáenz. While this novel explores themes and issues that are recurrent in Sáenz’s oeuvre, Last Night I Sang to the Monster is much…
1st pov, 2000s, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, abuse, addiction, ALIENATION, America, American, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, child abuse, coming of age, Contemporary, conversational style, dark, DEPRESSION, dialogue heavy, distressing reads, family, favourite authors, friendships, GRIEF, Last Night I Sang to the Monster, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, loneliness, male authors, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, My reviews, New Mexico, PSYCHIATRISTS & THERAPISTS, reading, rehab, sexual assault/abuse/rape, trauma, YOUNG ADULT -
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“A part of me wanted to run away from all the complications of being in love with Dante. Maybe Ari plus Dante equated love, but it also equated complicated. It also equated playing hide-and-seek with the world. But there was a difference between the art of running and the art of running away.” This one…
1980s, 1st pov, 3.5 STARS, America, American, arc, aristotle and dante, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Aristotle Mendoza, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, coming of age, dialogue heavy, drama, el paso, fathers & sons, favourite authors, friendships, gay, HIGH SCHOOL, HISTORICAL FICTION, latinx author, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, loneliness, m/m, male authors, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, mothers & sons, My reviews, netgalley, published in 2021, queer, read in 2021, reading, ROMANCE, social issues, texas, YOUNG ADULT -
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.” The first time I read this novel was back in 2013 and in the years since I have come to regard Benjamin Alire Sáenz as one of my favourite authors. His deceptively simple style captures with clarity the thoughts and feelings…
1980s, 1st pov, 20th century, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, America, American, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Aristotle Mendoza, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, coming of age, Dante Quintana, el paso, family, fathers & sons, first love, FRIENDS TO LOVERS, friendships, gay, HIGH SCHOOL, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, latinx author, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, loneliness, m/m, male authors, male friendships, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, published in 2012, queer, re-reads, read in 2013, read in 2021, Summer, summer reads, texas, YOUNG ADULT -
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“No one had ever taught me how to love. And perhaps, in that department, I was uneducable.” Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club is heartbreakingly beautiful collection of short stories. These stories have Benjamin Alire Sáenz written all over them: Mexican-American boys and men struggling with their identity (not feeling Mexican or American…
1st pov, 4.5 STARS, abuse, addiction, Adult, America, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, collection of short stories, coming of age, Contemporary, DEATH, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, family, fathers & sons, gay, GRIEF, latin america, latin american, latinx author, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, m/m, male authors, mental health, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, Mexico, published in 2012, queer, read in 2020, short stories, trauma
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