6/5/2023 0 Comments Mosquitoland![]() ![]() I’ve thought a lot more about disability representation, the characterization of adolescent girls in YA, and what responsibilities authors who write stories that portray sexual assault have to their readers.Ī quick primer for those who haven’t read the book: Mosquitoland follows teenager Mim Malone, who ditches her dad and step-mom to visit her mother, who’s sick in Cleveland. I’m sixteen now, the same age as main character Mim, and…hoo boy. ![]() Within this review (all four paragraphs of it), I wrote the phrase, “I would like to start by saying that Mosquitoland is one of the best books that I have ever read.” It was titled Book Review: Mosquitoland By David Arnold. ![]() My very first post on this blog was three(ish) years ago in April, 2017. Happy Monday, readers! I was sitting at my desk worrying obsessively about my surgery coming up in a few weeks (a post for another time) when I was like, “You know what I should do? Re-write this draft of a post I have saved about how much Mosquitoland by David Arnold disappoints me now.” So here we are! ![]()
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