June: A Novel

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I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip. Read up on GR reviews and decided that, past time period aside, there wasn't much moving this overladen plot moving. There are “two main themes: first, how the director’s career was slaughtered by critics’ mockery of his masterwork, Heaven’s Gate, when it premiered, in 1980; second, that Cimino presented as a woman, at least in private, for part of the last twenty-five years of his life.

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And she is apparently kin to his daughters one of which is Tate Montgomery and she's a famous actress.Twenty-year-old Tully Dawson, a machinist in the local factory who “impersonated Arthur Seaton … by taunting his boss all week and drinking pints of Black and Tan all weekend” is the wisecracking ringleader of this gang. That's both the question and the trick in Kirstin Chin's debut — a clever, fizzy inversion of all kinds of Asian stereotypes, Crazy Rich and otherwise.

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Jack is tender with June but can also be very unkind to those who he feels stand in the way of what he wants. We’re back in the early 1980s and our narrator, Ellen’s 15-year-old sister Libby, is struggling to find her place. Together, they come to discover the true reason for June’s silence about the summer she was eighteen, when Hollywood came to town, and June and Jack’s lives were forever altered. Suspicion of exercise is entirely natural, as the evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman points out in this entertaining and informative book.

Set on the Yorkshire moors, The Wayward Girls moves between 1976 and the present day to spool out the story of a haunting.