The Scenic Route: A Short Story by Christina Baker Kline

The Scenic Route: A Short Story by Christina Baker Kline vacillates between being an easy read and a hard read, not because of the writing but because the  subject matter is so heartbreaking and feels so real. Kline pulled me into the story and the pain of the characters from the beginning. The Scenic Route explores so many issues in a few pages because they are all related and they all drive the story forward leading a resolution that feels at once life-affirming and heart-wrenching just like life can sometimes be. The Scenic Route travels emotional and physical journeys of self-punishment and self-discovery in ways that bring the story home without letting anyone off the hook for their decisions, choices, and actions - good or bad.



Check back soon for my thoughts on other books I'm reading including:


Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell
Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy by Wyatt Welch
Just a Girl by Alyssa Cole
The Woman in Me by Brittany Spears
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Petals of the Moon: A Poetry Collection by C. Churchill



Reviews will be posted as I finish these books.


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