{"id":13611,"date":"2020-11-25T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13611"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:38:04","slug":"glass-tidings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13611","title":{"rendered":"Glass Tidings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glass Tidings<\/a><\/em> (2016) Amy Jo Cousins<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a>Eddie Rodrigues is back on the road, heading to Texas–like he should have in the first place. But a breakdown and then witnessing a hit and run leaves him stuck in the small town of Clear Lake, an unwelcome guest of a man who owns a Christmas shop.<\/p>\n

Grayson Croft is the town recluse. He tried being in love once and it didn’t work out, so now works in his shop for the holidays and reads his science fiction books and works on his house. He doesn’t want a guest, but he can’t turn away a blood soaked stranger who just witnessed a hit-and-run, so… how long could this be?<\/p>\n

Eddie spent his childhood in a group home. It wasn’t a good childhood, but it could have been a lot worse. Though it did leave him unwilling to trust people and some not particularly healthy coping skills.<\/p>\n

It was like Eddie couldn\u2019t relax until he knew what made someone lose their shit. Once he found that out, he could chill. That\u2019s where the land mines are. Cool<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But despite that he has his own set of ethics he follows–even if his standards don’t especially make sense to Gray.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you sell someone on something they don\u2019t want, you\u2019re an asshole.\u201d Eddie\u2019s voice was knife-sharp. \u201cI don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the two of them have in common is a love of reading and science fiction.<\/p>\n

(T)here was a laundromat by his favorite early spring faire that had one of those Take a Book, Leave a Book library shelves, and Eddie looked forward to holding a real book in his hands again every April\u2014 but knowing he couldn\u2019t take anything with him on the road made it easier to let things go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I may not be a SF reader, but I did recognize most of the books they talked about, including the book that was the first dystopia I heard (and (sorry) hated).<\/p>\n

There is always a lot of talk about unrealistic body expectations in books, so I very much liked Eddie’s appreciation of Gray.<\/p>\n

Eddie liked men whose bodies were lived in. Strong where they needed to be, but sometimes soft too, because who had time for gyms when there were lives to be lived? Men with big arms and a little cushion on their bellies made Eddie feel safe. Those men had enough to eat and plenty of work and both of those things had been un-fucking-certain in Eddie\u2019s life for a very long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A reminder that standards of beauty can (and should) be very personal.<\/p>\n

All-in-all a lovely story with a gorgeous cover which is one of the things that first drew me eye to the book.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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