Boy

I normally stay away from all things YA or even YA adjacent. In other words, books with 18 year old protagonists don’t normally appeal to me and yet something about this one did…ok, to be perfectly honest that something was the cover. Bikes on the cover always seem to do the trick. And also the prom......more

"Misty telling someone on the phone that a ten-year-old’s grief isn’t real. It’s just loss, she said, a small hole that’ll heal quickly at his age. For him, though, holes just get bigger — maybe you just get better at building around them." This is the story of Boy (named after Boy George) who has lo......more

A quirky story with a compelling protagonist. The relationships in which the story is grounded - Boy and his friends, Boy and his parents, Boy and his baby brother, Boy and his dead sister - are crafted with such beautiful detail and a lot of layers that unfold slowly over the course of the book. Th......more

The book is about an 18 year old boy so it should be categorized as YA but the way the story is told is something totally new (at least, to me) to the genre. The plot unravels slowly and steadily, not giving out much at a time and the whole background of the book makes it even more compelling. The b......more

I like reading books which are set in my home of Hamilton, Ontario, so this is another one by local author Brent van Staalduinen. The main character is an 18-year-old young man named Boy, who has a lot of drama going on in his life! So the book holds your interest because there is so much going on,......more