Back at book #5, I mentioned ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) as one of the perks of working in a bookstore. Another one of those perks is strips, which are mass-market paperbacks that are returned to the publishers. The company I worked for allowed each employee to take home five of these a month, so I had yet another way to increase the size of my library.
Side note about ethics here: the stripped books I own would have been destroyed anyway, so I feel okay about saving them from death. Also I plan to replace all my strips with purchased copies as I find them, partly because I do want to give the authors their money and partly (to be perfectly frank) because stripped books are not as aesthetically pleasing as I would prefer.
This particular book was one of the forsaken orphans. I was working as the children's lead bookseller at the time and was always looking for new things to recommend, plus music-referencing titles are always appealing to me. It is a sweet, occasionally somewhat bleak story about love, music, survival, standing up for what you believe in-in short, about life. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone, with the caveat that some of it (mother being in a hospital, angry/borderline abusive dad) might be a bit much for young readers.
Author: Mary Jane Auch
Potentially objectionable content: See above-mentioned adult themes
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