LdyEnki Reads Anger Is A Gift Chapters 1 And 2

LdyEnki Reads Anger is a Gift Chapters 1 and 2

I read “Anger is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro in the style of Mark Reads, stopping after each chapter to write down my reactions.  I am posting these reactions here.  I highly recommend everyone read this book and am happy to talk to people about it.  So here we go, LdyEnki is unprepared.

Chapter 1:

I am loving Moss and Esperanza already.

I knew about the interaction Moss has with Javier because I heard Mark give a reading of the scene where Moss tells his mother about him.  So I was excited from the second he showed up while also feeling Moss’s panic attack looming closer and closer, inevitable despite the techniques he tries to employ to stave it off. 

Chapter 2:

The line about renewal was a punch to the heart.  When will Moss get his renewal.  I’m only in the second chapter and already Mark is making me cry.  Moss sitting on the steps remembering his father and the horror of that night and trying to overlay that memory with good ones literally had me tearing up in public.  Note to Self: stop reading this book in public places.

(spoiler alert: I don’t learn my lesson)

I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente (via the-poetic-mathematician)

‘There are important rules in Fairyland. I am afraid that if you trample upon the rules, I cannot help you. You may be ticketed or executed, depending on the mood of the Marquess.’ 'Is she very terrible?’ The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. 'All little girls are terrible,’ he admitted finally, 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat.’

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making (via porchwood)

I’d have liked more time with you.” “A lot more time. Stephen, you’re the only spark of light I’ve encountered in this whole vile country. You’re extraordinary. You’re valuable. And I don’t want you to die because of me.

The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles (via drchristineputnam)

LdyEnki reads Anger is a Gift Chapters 3 and 4

The continuing adventures of LdyEnki being unprepared for Mark Oshiro’s “Anger is a Gift”.

Chapter 3:

I don’t feel like I really know Moss’s friends yet, but I am intrigued.  So far we have only gotten little tidbits of information about each and I still trying to figure out who’s who.  But I want to know more.

School- I was wincing reading the description of Moss’s school, it is so far from my experience.  My high school wasn’t great (though we had some great teachers) and the principal actively encouraged kids to drop out rather than create the kind of supportive space where they might actually succeed, but it was nothing like this.  I felt uncomfortable just reading about the worn down, grimy building.  And if I felt this uncomfortable just reading about it I can’t even imagine trying to learn here.  And yet I know this is an experience so many kids have.  And it's wrong.  They deserve better. (I want to gather up all the kids and send them to the elementary school of my childhood)   

Chapter 4:

“What are you going to do about it?”  I get the feeling that this is the central question of the book.

Chapters 1 and 2 are here.

Trying to loosen up…