Frogged

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There is always a quest and a hero who must complete the quest no matter the dangers or the impossibility of the tasks set before him/her. (Chance, P. 84) There are other acts of violence in the past that have altered the path of this family. Joan remembers one such act. As she grows through her teenage years, she finds comfort in her gift of artwork, portrait painting, and the healing power of her paintbrush...

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The other thing that I found hard to keep up with were the abrupt changes in the timeline which often left me wondering where I was and who was it, I now was reading of. The characters seemed to get muddled and the story seemed to be riddled with unfinished business. Perhaps this was intentional, for human business is often unfinished. The things women do for the sake of their daughters. The things women don't. The shame of it all. The shame of her daughter's rape, the shame of her husband's violence, her nephew's psychopathy. a main issue with this book is the non-linear story telling. this is a new trope in modern literature, and i can confidently say it never benefits the story or the reading experience. it's use in this book was particularly bad in my opinion. it made for a lot of confusion and a lot of flipping around, at least for me. One other comment – Joan finishes the book with a life changing opportunity to move to England, one she claims as her destiny and causes her to reflect on her namesake Joan of Arc: it was harder for me to think of a historical character less suitable for inspiration for seeing England as a redemptive promised land of opportunity.

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Princess Imogene is on a quest to return home AND to be freed of the curse that has turned her into a frog, preferably without passing that curse on to another person. Many dangerous and misadventures are encountered as she makes both friends and foes on this quest. What a GENIUS hot take coming from a woman whose son is going to prison for killing WOMEN & this is the reason why HE should not be put on Death Row?) Very clean! This was clearly geared for a young audience, and everything stays very lighthearted. That’s a teeny tiny bit of kissing, but nothing major.

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This is a pretty loose retelling of The Frog Prince. There’s really nothing in the way of threads from the original story, other than a person being turned into a frog, and even that is flipped on its head. But I didn’t mind. It was just a fun take on the story and never really took itself seriously. May I come in?” he asked. August cast her sister a side look. At almost fifteen, she already matched Miriam’s height. “Yes, of course. Welcome,” Miriam said, with a rush to her voice August had never before heard. “We really doing this, huh?” August threw her hands up. “Fine, come in.” She waved. “There’s the piano, the couch, the Victro—the old record player. That’s a random cat that must have come in when you interrupted my piano practicing, a lovely gold rotary phone. You got a carpetbag big enough for all this?” It’s a family saga, shifting between 3 generations of women and while the sound of nonlinear stories doesn’t always appeal to me, it worked well here. Though this is a fictional story, it’s frustrating to know how little some things have changed over the last several decades. Memphis has no shortage of hardship and tragedy as the women and girls contend with challenges in life, but it also shows the power of family bonds and strong community, and has some hopefulness.

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As you can tell from the line quoted above, this book is filled with gorgeous, poetic observations that will make you stop and dwell on the words you just consumed. There were so many lines I highlighted in this book. The story captivates from beginning to end and the characters pull you in and invite you into their lives. This was a powerful read and is one to be treasured. Highly recommend. But I still had such a great time reading this. If nothing else, it’s worth the read for Imogene’s inner monologue alone! In the Summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, with her mother Miriam and younger sister Mya, escapes her father's ferocious temper, to the safety of her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis.