Alphareader - Danielle Binks

If you liked Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, try The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks

They both include:

sweet wlw romance

a window into the scandalous lives of fictional Hollywood stars

explorations of how films impact and interact with real life

More of my recs are available in my “book recommendations” tag!

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

True Grit by Charles Portis

I heard nothing more of the Texas officer, LaBoeuf. If he is yet alive and should happen to read these pages, I will be pleased to hear from him. I judge he is in his seventies now, and nearer eighty than seventy. I expect some of the starch has gone out of that “cowlick.” Time just gets away from us. This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Ross’s blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground.

True Grit by Charles Portis

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

'East of Eden' by John Steinbeck