drey's library

What do you do when your whole life is upended, and you’ve lost everything? Her father’s dead, her mother’s lost her faculties in grief, and her house has been repossessed. Now Tamara and her mother are living with her aunt and uncle, Rosaleen and Arthur, in the middle of nowhere, and there’s nothing to do but dwell…Dwell on her father’s death. Dwell on her mother’s inability to cope. Dwell on her aunt’s overly-nosy nature. Dwell on who’s living in the cottage across the street, and why Rosaleen won’t just tell her already. You’re just waiting for Tamara to get sick and tired of dwelling on things, and just explode.Which she does, eventually. But until then, there’s a cute boy to hang out with in a traveling library. A nun who enlists her help with the bees. And a mysterious diary that rewrites itself every night…The Book of Tomorrow is a heart-wrenching book to read, especially as Tamara is trying to figure out how to help her mother, and it seems as though the fates themselves are conspiring against her. She makes mistakes, gets caught up in others’ pasts, and eventually learns that love is stronger than she could imagine, and she is strong enough to come out whole. The writing is beautiful, and you’re so caught up in Tamara’s life that you won’t notice the hours flying by.drey’s rating: Excellent!