Make Much Of Me edition by Kayla Bashe Literature Fiction eBooks
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"She cried, “Laura,” up the garden,
“Did you miss me?
Come and kiss me.
Never mind my bruises,
Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices
Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
Eat me, drink me, love me;
Laura, make much of me;
For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin merchant men.”
-from Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti
Irrepressible Lily O'Shaughnessy may have spent the majority of her childhood in bed with tuberculosis- but now that she's well enough to get up and walk around from time to time, she's determined to do twice as much living as anyone else.
To that end, she runs away from home and enrolls in a music conservatory in glittering, jazzy, wild New York, where she makes fantastic new friends.
But everyone seems to have secrets at the River School.
Tommie, a full-figured alto, has an incredible talent for terrible puns- but clams up whenever she's asked about her childhood.
Sardonic pianist Jo seems to have had an idyllic life- but her moneyed Southern family is falling apart, and the absurd last will of a cruel grandfather puts her carefully planned-out future in jeopardy.
And then there's Laura.
Impossibly talented, luminously beautiful, Laura is the gentlest, kindest person Lily's ever met.
But an incomprehensible sadness lurks behind her eyes, a strange longing for the many joys of life she'll never taste...
As the distance between Laura and Lily closes, a strange new desire arises in them both- the desire for love!
And when the horrors of Laura's sordid past rise up at last to claim her and drag her down, only Lily can save her from her tortured self.
A novel of twilight affection and courageous love... a fascinating reimagining of Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market...A lesbian pulp novel with a happy ending!
Jazz! Poodles! An asexual woman in a queerplatonic relationship! Girls being friends! All in the book you never knew your heart needed... MAKE MUCH OF ME BY KAYLA BASHE
Make Much Of Me edition by Kayla Bashe Literature Fiction eBooks
There are many wonderful, wonderful things about Make Much Of Me by Kayla Bashe. It has an innocence I haven't really seen in the fiction I've read very recently. And much of its charm comes from the story being set in an earlier time. While it doesn't flat out state it (unless I somehow missed something) the suggested era is the 1920s. Words like "jake" and "cloche hat" and the mannerisms and dress of the girls attending the school they go to suggest this.Make Much About Me is only 84 pages, but it took longer to read because I so loved to linger over a lot of the passages.
Delightfully unusual (it often reminds me of the Nancy Drew books, minus the mysteries) main character Lily has an plucky yet endearing spirit and the warm tenderness between her and her friend Laura permeates all around. And, best of all, there is no sex...it's all about emotion and connecting on other levels, while still being romantic and sweet.
Some of my favorite sections:
- "The woman I might marry someday. I was thinking of her." She propped her chin up on her fists. "Perhaps she lives only a few hours away in New York- or perhaps she lives right here, or in a tenement. I ought to send her my best wishes, in case she has no one to look out for her. That's what I'm doing. I'm sending her my love."
-How could one not listen to Stravinsky and not feel utterly wild afterwards, or not sit paralyzed in amazement and admiration after the final chord of a choral piece? The teachers who had heard her sing in her private assessment agreed that while her technique was shaky, the heart was there, and while the world might never weep to hear her sing, it would surely draw joy from her.
-Lily talked to Laura in bed, saying whatever came into her head while stroking her friend's sunbeam hair. Everything from, "I don't think there is any such thing as an unattractive woman. Tired women, and badly dressed women, and women who don't look after themselves or stand up straight or could use a bit of good advice on how to present themselves. But ugly? Never."
-Lily felt as if she knew Laura, and liked Laura, more than ever. She wanted to rescue Laura from any unhappiness, to look after her always, to see her smile like the sun coming out from behind a cloud at long last
-There was a girl in my life, Father, Laura thought, and she made me happy. And had I been worthy of her, I would have continued loving her until the day I died!
"No, Laura, that's not what I mean. The thing is...Every day before I met you, my soul spent it missing you. Laura, my dandelion fluff, my angel light. We were made to keep each other safe."
Make Much Of Me is definitely going to stay on my Kindle for re-reading. Its specialness (and deep sincerity) has nestled itself into my heart. I know how corny that may sound, but that's just how it is.:)
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Make Much Of Me edition by Kayla Bashe Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is an oddball little read that has some charm.
Though the book takes place in a real world setting, somewhere near New York City, the story has a fairy-tale tone to it. Characters are almost caricatures, the good triumphs evil and hardship, quick resolutions occur, everything works out. That kind of thing. If the book took itself seriously it would be a melodrama. Luckily it doesn't, not in that respect anyway, so it works.
"Make Much Of Me" is about four girls who meet in college and how they support each other through thick and thin despite how different they are from one another. Lily, a girl that's been sickly all her life but has a triumphant spirit, is the leader of the group that drives the story but each of the girls have their strengths. There is a f/f subplot thrown in and the story overall is really very sweet.
This is very much a girl power, women supporting women type tale.
For explicitness, there's no sex or cussing but addiction and sexual abuse elements arise. Also, the author did a great job of capturing a sadistic and controlling parent. I'd say that parent is the one part of the story where realism was depicted spot on.
What's strange about the book is that the time period is never fully locked down. The era feels like it's some time around the Prohibition (1920s-1930) but the legality of same sex relationships and sexual orientation and gender labels are from present day. The dialogue has the ring of old-time black and white movies when people said "dames", "doll", and "the bees knees".
As for diversity, when it comes to the lead four characters, two of them are lesbian, one is asexual, one has a disability, one is black, two are well to do and two aren't, and at least two are not considered attractive by conventional standards. There's also a minor character that's non-binary. Yeah, some of that, and a scenario here and there, felt forced but the fairy-tale aspect forgives it some.
At times the story is a little rough in its switching between points of view or it suddenly inserts the thoughts of another character which is jarring. That would be my main complaint.
I will say that I liked this author's "Graveyard Sparrow" more than this read. Bashe definitely has an interesting voice, though, and I'll continue to follow her work.
3.5 stars
A dear morsel of a book with darker flavors hidden within. If you like college stories, retold fairy tales, girl solidarity, and sweet love stories, do give it a chance!
Argrggrh. I'm always looking out for well-written books with diverse casts. It's, of course, validating to see people like me reflected in the media I consume. However, this is not enough to cover for the author's limited writing skills. The book has almost no tension, no action, and relies on the "tell, don't show" school of character development. It's very twee, which makes it feel very misplaced when the book wheels sharply into talking about rape, drug abuse, sexual abuse, and abuse from family members. I was so delighted when I read the reviews for this book, and so utterly, completely disappointed upon reading it.
There are many wonderful, wonderful things about Make Much Of Me by Kayla Bashe. It has an innocence I haven't really seen in the fiction I've read very recently. And much of its charm comes from the story being set in an earlier time. While it doesn't flat out state it (unless I somehow missed something) the suggested era is the 1920s. Words like "jake" and "cloche hat" and the mannerisms and dress of the girls attending the school they go to suggest this.
Make Much About Me is only 84 pages, but it took longer to read because I so loved to linger over a lot of the passages.
Delightfully unusual (it often reminds me of the Nancy Drew books, minus the mysteries) main character Lily has an plucky yet endearing spirit and the warm tenderness between her and her friend Laura permeates all around. And, best of all, there is no sex...it's all about emotion and connecting on other levels, while still being romantic and sweet.
Some of my favorite sections
- "The woman I might marry someday. I was thinking of her." She propped her chin up on her fists. "Perhaps she lives only a few hours away in New York- or perhaps she lives right here, or in a tenement. I ought to send her my best wishes, in case she has no one to look out for her. That's what I'm doing. I'm sending her my love."
-How could one not listen to Stravinsky and not feel utterly wild afterwards, or not sit paralyzed in amazement and admiration after the final chord of a choral piece? The teachers who had heard her sing in her private assessment agreed that while her technique was shaky, the heart was there, and while the world might never weep to hear her sing, it would surely draw joy from her.
-Lily talked to Laura in bed, saying whatever came into her head while stroking her friend's sunbeam hair. Everything from, "I don't think there is any such thing as an unattractive woman. Tired women, and badly dressed women, and women who don't look after themselves or stand up straight or could use a bit of good advice on how to present themselves. But ugly? Never."
-Lily felt as if she knew Laura, and liked Laura, more than ever. She wanted to rescue Laura from any unhappiness, to look after her always, to see her smile like the sun coming out from behind a cloud at long last
-There was a girl in my life, Father, Laura thought, and she made me happy. And had I been worthy of her, I would have continued loving her until the day I died!
"No, Laura, that's not what I mean. The thing is...Every day before I met you, my soul spent it missing you. Laura, my dandelion fluff, my angel light. We were made to keep each other safe."
Make Much Of Me is definitely going to stay on my for re-reading. Its specialness (and deep sincerity) has nestled itself into my heart. I know how corny that may sound, but that's just how it is.)
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