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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. About a Girl Metamorphoses, 3 3. Eighteen-year-old Tally is absolutely sure of everything: There's no room in her tidy world for heartbreak or uncertainty—or the charismatic, troubled mother who abandoned her soon after she was born. But when a sudden discovery upen Eighteen-year-old Tally is absolutely sure of everything: But when a sudden discovery upends her fiercely ordered world, Tally sets out on an unexpected quest to seek out the reclusive musician who may hold the key to her past—and instead finds Maddy, an enigmatic and beautiful girl who will unlock the door to her future.
The deeper she falls in love with Maddy, the more Tally begins to realize that the universe is bigger—and more complicated—than she ever imagined. Can Tally face the truth about her family—and find her way home in time to save herself from its consequences? Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about About a Girl , please sign up.
Is it important to read the books in order? Kylie yes if ur insane then no but if ur a human bean then yes: See 1 question about About a Girl…. Lists with This Book. Mar 09, Sarah rated it liked it Shelves: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Martin's Press and NetGalley. View all 8 comments. Dec 10, Eilonwy rated it really liked it Shelves: I decided to follow them both. If she can't measure it, it's probably not real, and certainly not to be trusted. Mysticism, witchcraft, poetry, art, emotions Like Tally's crazy extended family, who love her but maybe don't quite get her.
When the story opens, Tally "There were two ways of arriving at the truth. When the story opens, Tally is awash in feelings she doesn't want to think about, much less try to deal with, especially as they involve a confusing situation with her best friend. So when a neighbor offers her the chance to literally fly away and look for information about her biological parents, whom she has never known, she jumps at the chance. Then she washes up in a place where people go to forget; not to get a fresh start, but to find oblivion.
She, and the reader, end up amazed at what you can learn about yourself in a place like that. I loved this book. It's not perfect -- the middle is a little slow, what with all the forgetfulness. But I personally found this the most accessible of the three books in this trilogy, and I enjoyed feeling at home in the Greek mythology. As usual with Sarah McCarry, the writing is beautiful, deeply observant, and emotionally resonant. I loved Tally and her stiff, righteous, judgemental self -- she is such a typical bright teen who's used to being the smartest kid in the room. Her journey to allowing herself to be vulnerable was touching and believable.
The twining of fantasy and reality felt completely organic to the story to me. And it ends up illustrating the Georges Lemaitre quote, which is in the book, perfectly. My only quibbles with this trilogy are: A The timeline doesn't work at all. Cass and Maia, Tally's grandmothers, talk about the Pixies in their book, which places them as being 17 in or so. Which means that Tally would have been born around , and sets her story in But B , you can't tell what year it is in these books, because they take place in an alternate universe where cell phones and email seem not to exist.
This gives the books a sort of timeless feel that I like, but which also annoys me a little. I loved these books enough that I bought the whole set for my best friend, and I'm going to buy them all for myself, too. And I can't wait to read whatever Sarah McCarry writes next. These definitely aren't to everyone's tastes, but they are mine. Even though I've given each book a 4-star rating, I'd give the trilogy as a whole 5 stars. I think the trilogy can be tied together by these lines near the end of this final volume: Now I understood the thing I'd never been able to see before: Mar 06, Emily May marked it as dnf Shelves: DNF I cannot tell you how much I wanted to like this book.
Everything about it was very different and we really need YA books portraying different kinds of relationships and families, whilst also offering an honest depiction of sex. But I did not enjoy the writing at all. I found Tally's narrative to be cold, detached and emotionless. Almost halfway in and I didn't care about a single character. Also, McCarry seems to like to write in huge paragraphs of text that make the story feel even more slo DNF I cannot tell you how much I wanted to like this book. Also, McCarry seems to like to write in huge paragraphs of text that make the story feel even more slow and boring.
Jun 01, TheBookSmugglers rated it it was amazing. Rather, this series delve deep into that kind mythology building that pays homage by subverting and transforming, by creating an ever-changing landscape featuring young people as they change themselves.
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Sometimes they do that under the looming threat of a Greek personage. Sometimes they travel to the underworld. Sometimes they eat pomegranate seeds. Sometimes they fall in love with murderous witches. How they are very human and allowed to make mistakes, to grow, to experience, to try and to fail, to just be. Sometimes they are part monster too. Her world is ordered. She knows exactly what she wants from life: She knows she is loved by her family and by her best friend Shane. Then what was once a life of order and certainty becomes messy and surprising. First, Tally falls in love and in lust with Shane.
Confusion and uncertainty follow and that is exactly the right time for Mysterious Forces to approach Tally with tasty morsels about her unknown father and her long-last mother. On the way, she gets lost. She loses all sense of time and place. She behaves completely unlike the image she has of herself. She falls in love. Tally asks if it is ok to be in love with two people at the same time: The story, the narrative, the characters are all like: He goes on Quests. He gets trapped in a place having an affair.
Tally ends up in a town where recalcitrant immortals go to forget. She too gets trapped there, with fuzzy memories, and confused sense of time and the certainty she is falling in love — and in lust, so much lust — with Maddy. Maddy, who also wants to forget, except her past is way more complicated. Sarah McCarry wrote about Maddy — under her other name, Medea — and how there are ways to think about her.
I am thinking of her still. Everything she thought of herself is questioned but not exactly overturned. This is another thing I loved about this book. It broke me then put me back together. It also made me laugh a lot, which considering the tone of the review, might come as a surprise. It surprised me too, for About a Girl is actually very funny in tone at least to start with. And to end with. The middle is mysterious and heady and sensual. The journey in those books and with those books has been epic. Dec 29, Petra rated it it was amazing Shelves: Probably as amazing as it's cover.
I want this book just because of that cover. Big, huge congratulations to fellow Rioter Sarah McCarry on the release of the the third book in her Metamorphoses trilogy! These books are amazing. Don't be frightened by it being the third book - each book is really a stand-alone, so you don't have to read them in order.
In this one, Tally meets, and falls in love with, a mysterious girl who may hold the key to her future, and will help Tally face the truth about her family. These are kick-ass punk rock fairy tales.
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Her ultimate goal is to study the relevance of dark energy on the solar system. When Tally was a baby, she was left on the doorstep of a couple she calls Aunt Beast, and Uncle Raoul.
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She's never known her mother or her father, but is given an opportunity to find out, when she travels 3, miles to a place that makes her lose herself. July 14th by St. Oct 26, First Second Books added it Shelves: The voice was wonderful. The opening scene -- which is narrated by the main character while she's at a bookstore, and continually interrupted by annoying customers being annoying in a way that also shows her personality -- is just fantastic.
I received a free copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This book was really interesting. I thought it was well written and the story very well thought-out, but I was a bit annoyed by Tally's irresponsible behaviour in the beginning which was just very out of character. Other than that, I really enjoyed this book. May 30, Ian Wood rated it did not like it.
This is the complete review as it appears at my blog dedicated to reading, writing no 'rithmatic! Blog reviews often contain links which are not reproduced here, nor will updates or modifications to the blog review be replicated here. Graphic and children's reviews on the blog typically feature two or three images from the book's interior, which are not reproduced here. Note that I don't really do stars. To me a book is either worth reading or it isn't. I can't rate it three- This is the complete review as it appears at my blog dedicated to reading, writing no 'rithmatic!
I can't rate it three-fifths worth reading! The only reason I've relented and started putting stars up there is to credit the good ones, which were being unfairly uncredited. So, all you'll ever see from me is a five-star or a one-star since no stars isn't a rating, unfortunately. This is apparently a companion novel to two others in what is called the Metamorphoses trilogy. The other books are stories about other members of the family, and I cannot ever see myself reading any more of these after my encounter with this one.
To begin with, it's a first person PoV story which is the most obnoxious voice. Some writers can carry it, but not this one, not with this character who is one of the most nauseating, self-obsessed, unappealing, and downright obnoxious Mary-Sues I've ever encountered in fiction. This novel begins with Tally's endless - and I do mean endless - rambling about how brilliant she is. Some paragraphs occupy a whole page. Where was the editor? The doesn't show us how smart she is, she tells us. Over and over again.
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When she does one time show us her 'smarts', they ain't much, believe me. Some Roman men kept a male concubine concubinus , "one who lies with; a bed-mate" before they married a woman. Eva Cantarella has described this form of concubinage as "a stable sexual relationship, not exclusive but privileged". In a wedding hymn , Catullus [65] portrays the groom's concubinus as anxious about his future and fearful of abandonment. He plays an active role in the ceremonies, distributing the traditional nuts that boys threw rather like rice or birdseed in the modern Western tradition.
The relationship with a concubinus might be discreet or more open: The concubina , a female concubine who might be free, held a protected legal status under Roman law , but the concubinus did not, since he was typically a slave. Pathicus was a "blunt" word for a male who was penetrated sexually. It derived from the unattested Greek adjective pathikos , from the verb paskhein , equivalent to the Latin deponent patior, pati, passus , "undergo, submit to, endure, suffer". Pathicus and cinaedus are often not distinguished in usage by Latin writers, but cinaedus may be a more general term for a male not in conformity with the role of vir , a "real man", while pathicus specifically denotes an adult male who takes the sexually receptive role.
His sexuality was not defined by the gender of the person using him as a receptacle for sex, but rather his desire to be so used. Because in Roman culture a man who penetrates another adult male almost always expresses contempt or revenge, the pathicus might be seen as more akin to the sexual masochist in his experience of pleasure.
He might be penetrated orally or anally by a man or by a woman with a dildo , but showed no desire for penetrating nor having his own penis stimulated. He might also be dominated by a woman who compels him to perform cunnilingus. In the discourse of sexuality, puer "boy" was a role as well as an age group. The puer delicatus was an "exquisite" or "dainty" child-slave chosen by his master for his beauty as a " boy toy ", [88] also referred to as deliciae "sweets" or "delights".
Pueri delicati might be idealized in poetry. In the erotic elegies of Tibullus , the delicatus Marathus wears lavish and expensive clothing. Pullus was a term for a young animal, and particularly a chick. It was an affectionate word [97] traditionally used for a boy puer [98] who was loved by someone "in an obscene sense". The lexicographer Festus provides a definition and illustrates with a comic anecdote. Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus , a consul in BC and later a censor known for his moral severity, earned his cognomen meaning " Ivory " the modern equivalent might be " Porcelain " because of his fair good looks candor.
Eburnus was said to have been struck by lightning on his buttocks, perhaps a reference to a birthmark. Although the sexual inviolability of underage male citizens is usually emphasized, this anecdote is among the evidence that even the most well-born youths might go through a phase in which they could be viewed as "sex objects". The 4th-century Gallo-Roman poet Ausonius records the word pullipremo , "chick-squeezer", which he says was used by the early satirist Lucilius. Pusio is etymologically related to puer, and means "boy, lad". It often had a distinctly sexual or sexually demeaning connotation.
Scultimidonus "asshole-bestower" [] was rare and "florid" slang [] that appears in a fragment from the early Roman satirist Lucilius. The abstract noun impudicitia adjective impudicus was the negation of pudicitia , "sexual morality, chastity". As a characteristic of males, it often implies the willingness to be penetrated. Impudicitia might be associated with behaviors in young men who retained a degree of boyish attractiveness but were old enough to be expected to behave according to masculine norms.
Julius Caesar was accused of bringing the notoriety of infamia upon himself, both when he was about 19, for taking the passive role in an affair with King Nicomedes of Bithynia , and later for many adulterous affairs with women. Latin had such a wealth of words for men outside the masculine norm that some scholars [] argue for the existence of a homosexual subculture at Rome; that is, although the noun "homosexual" has no straightforward equivalent in Latin, literary sources reveal a pattern of behaviors among a minority of free men that indicate same-sex preference or orientation.
Plautus mentions a street known for male prostitutes. Juvenal states that such men scratched their heads with a finger to identify themselves. Apuleius indicates that cinaedi might form social alliances for mutual enjoyment, such as hosting dinner parties. In his novel The Golden Ass , he describes one group who jointly purchased and shared a concubinus.
On one occasion, they invited a "well-endowed" young hick rusticanus iuvenis to their party, and took turns performing oral sex on him. Other scholars, primarily those who argue from the perspective of " cultural constructionism ", maintain that there is not an identifiable social group of males who would have self-identified as "homosexual" as a community.
Although in general the Romans regarded marriage as a male—female union for the purpose of producing children, a few scholars believe that in the early Imperial period some male couples were celebrating traditional marriage rites in the presence of friends. Both Martial and Juvenal refer to marriage between males as something that occurs not infrequently, although they disapprove of it.
Various ancient sources state that the emperor Nero celebrated two public weddings with men, once taking the role of the bride with a freedman Pythagoras , and once the groom with Sporus ; there may have been a third in which he was the bride. Other mature men at his court had husbands, or said they had husbands in imitation of the emperor. The earliest reference in Latin literature to a marriage between males occurs in the Philippics of Cicero , who insulted Mark Antony for being a slut in his youth until Curio "established you in a fixed and stable marriage matrimonium , as if he had given you a stola ", the traditional garment of a married woman.
Roman law addressed the rape of a male citizen as early as the 2nd century BC, [] when it was ruled that even a man who was "disreputable and questionable" famosus, related to infamis , and suspiciosus had the same right as other free men not to have his body subjected to forced sex. The slave's owner, however, could prosecute the rapist for property damage.
Fears of mass rape following a military defeat extended equally to male and female potential victims. The threat of one man to subject another to anal or oral rape irrumatio is a theme of invective poetry, most notably in Catullus's notorious Carmen 16 , [] and was a form of masculine braggadocio. In a collection of twelve anecdotes dealing with assaults on chastity, the historian Valerius Maximus features male victims in equal number to female.
The Roman soldier, like any free and respectable Roman male of status, was expected to show self-discipline in matters of sex. Sex among fellow soldiers, however, violated the Roman decorum against intercourse with another freeborn male. A soldier maintained his masculinity by not allowing his body to be used for sexual purposes. In warfare, rape symbolized defeat, a motive for the soldier not to make his body sexually vulnerable in general. Polybius 2nd century BC reports that the punishment for a soldier who willingly submitted to penetration was the fustuarium , clubbing to death.
Roman historians record cautionary tales of officers who abuse their authority to coerce sex from their soldiers, and then suffer dire consequences. A good-looking young recruit named Trebonius [] had been sexually harassed over a period of time by his superior officer, who happened to be Marius's nephew, Gaius Luscius. One night, having fended off unwanted advances on numerous occasions, Trebonius was summoned to Luscius's tent. Unable to disobey the command of his superior, he found himself the object of a sexual assault and drew his sword, killing Luscius.
A conviction for killing an officer typically resulted in execution. When brought to trial, he was able to produce witnesses to show that he had repeatedly had to fend off Luscius, and "had never prostituted his body to anyone, despite offers of expensive gifts". Marius not only acquitted Trebonius in the killing of his kinsman, but gave him a crown for bravery. In addition to repeatedly described anal intercourse, oral sex was common.
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