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Out of the Blue: A heartwarming picture book about celebrating difference

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This book has some really great diversity and representation of very underrepresented populations, but otherwise it was super-duper meh for me. Very predictable. Very kind of nonsensical and strange in the ways its characters operated. Heale tweeted in response: "Your copy is in the post, thanks @Keir_Starmer". [12] Private Eye accused Starmer of stealing the joke from the issue they had published that day, which referred to Out of the Blue as "Due out on 8 December. (The book, that is. Not its subject.)". [13] I also want to mention the relationship between Allie and Calum. Her little pet names, his worry and over protectiveness. Just all of it. Love.

There's something deeply pathetic and unbecoming about her 'rider'; demands (while FS) for a bottle of white wine in the fridge at every overnight stay, and her aides hastily trying to rearrange her diplomatic engagements the next day to cover up her hangovers. Overall, despite the gripes that I had, I just had a really good time reading this novel and found myself very emotionally invested. It's also generally super unique and actually made me crave more novels about Angels, which I never thought I would say. I cannot describe how much I loved that all merfolk inherently use they/them pronouns - that's such a wonderful idea and led to very important discussions about gender identities. Cole has long been rumoured to have been the recipient of Truss’s leaks when she was a cabinet member – Dominic Cummings was explicit in this accusation. So while it isn’t an authorised biography, you sense that Truss herself has been the source of a fair amount of the information in the book. a b c d e f g Hinsliff, Gaby (23 November 2022). " Out of the Blue review – the rise and fall of Liz Truss". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 December 2022.The romance is understated and sweet. Allie, the love interest, is tough and smart and kind and stubborn and I loved her so much. She is disabled and her disability is discussed by the characters at length. While I am not disabled in the same way and thus feel unequipped to comment on whether Allie's relationship to her disability is positively or negatively represented, I do suffer from chronic illness and I totally get the unfairness of it and I appreciated seeing a character like Allie in a book like this.

The sibling relationship between Calum and Allie was to die for. It’s complex and nuanced, and I’m really glad that this book also emphasized that people with disabilities are just tryna live their lives. Their disability isn’t their entire person. I’m also really glad that this story didn’t go down the “person with a chronic illness dies at the end” trope, because for a hot second there I thought it was going to, and seeing as how Allie is bi too it also would have bought into the “burying your gays” trope and that would have been,,,, yikes,,, but hey!! it didn’t!! so don’t worry about that if you were worried about it!! it’s all good! Do you know who manages to be a distinct character with a will while only being able to speak via fragments from the radio? Goddamn Bumblebee from Transformers. FROM TRANSFORMERS. Gellir darllen y stori dyner, gadarnhaol hon fel metaffor am fod yn LHDTC+, teimlo'n 'wahanol' mewn rhyw ffordd neu fel cydnabyddiaeth syml bod pawb yn unigolyn. Mae'n ddathliad hyfryd dros ben o fod yn driw i chi'ch hun. The rep is fantastic too: bi, non-binary (throughout all), gay, a sapphic relationship, big person, and more that I'm sure I'm missing mentioning right here. What the government – and indeed the nation – needed after Boris Johnson’s disruptive stint in office was a period of undramatic competence. What the Tory membership voted for instead was someone who was drunk on the thrill of disruption. One of the many strange elements of the Truss story is that she has always maintained that she is interested in outcome, not process.Character MVP: ....I guess Sean? They were all a little flat and one-dimensional and hard to connect or invest in. The book is a perfect "show, not tell" example and even every effin' chapter ends with a cliff-hanger! I hated it! AND I LOVED IT! Mae bachgen ifanc yn byw mewn man lle mae unrhyw beth nad yw'n las yn cael ei wahardd, trwy orchymyn y llywodraeth. Ond mae gan y bachgen gyfrinach: mae wrth ei fodd â'r lliw melyn. Mae'n teimlo bod hoffi melyn yn gorfod bod yn beth drwg. I just kind of wish a book about angels falling out of the sky was a bit more exciting!!!! But you can’t always get what you want. And while it’s nice that a lot of things were unexpected, but at the same time I feel like the blurb might be just a tad bit misleading?? I thought that the relationship would be between Jaya and the angel, and I also thought that there would be more discovery as to where the angels come from. The fact that we never did learn where the angels come from at the end made me disappointed?? The entire time that’s kind of the entire overlaying mystery, but we didn’t really get any closure in that department. But, make no mistake, even though it wasn’t what I expected, I still loved the plot.

So much of this book hinges on physical affection. Now, I don't mean this is a super sex positive book, or these characters care about physical affection. That's all fine. What I mean is, not only does sex as a topic come up at times where it feels really strange, and not only do we get random "as a top" moments where a character is bringing up his sexual role as a personality trait (weird but okay, man), but the thing that Crest thinks about the most when it comes to the biggest decision of their entire life is all about sex. The second Crest starts considering staying on land, it's about whether or not they want to give up human physical affection, if sex is better than the mer version, etc. They even try to reconnect to their old life by jumping into the mer version of sex with someone. Like, maybe it's me and my asexuality not at all understanding why you would base literally your entire future off of sex, but it sure did feel weird and surface level. Especially because Crest does such a 180 to get there, and yet they don't have an actual character arc to mirror it. The romance was also so sweet. It gave me What If It’s Us vibes (which isn’t usually a compliment because I kinda disliked What If It’s Us, but in this case it’s not so bad) but Out of the Blue was better (IMHO). I don’t really want to spoil, but basically I highly recommend this to people who enjoyed What If It’s Us.With her manic eagerness, cheap publicity stunts, fixed stare looking somewhere over the horizon, and GCSE level political fixed ideas, she could be a parody of Reese Witherspoon’s character from the movie Election. Unfortunately, she is a real politician, who, in her short premiership, succeeded in damaging the economy and the status of the country. But my body, this one, the one I have on land, also craves one other thing. One other person. I need Sean. I need to kiss him again. I need to share myself with him one more time before I go. As the authors didn’t have the time, the research is minimal, and, apart from the fact that she had an 18-month affair with a senior Tory MP in her early career (which might show that she is either human or devoid of any ethics as long as her career can be helped), I did not learn anything new. Out of the Blue then recounts Truss's campaign for a seat in the House of Commons, covering the difficulties that arose due to her previously undisclosed affair with Mark Field, a former Conservative MP. While the book does note that the affair was much more damaging for Truss than it was for Field, it only cursorily mentions the more lurid allegations made against Truss. After being elected to the Commons in 2010, Truss becomes parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Education under David Cameron. The book talks about her unsuccessful reform proposal that would have decreased the number of adults employed as caretakers. [17] Do know that you have to prepare for cheating if you decide to read this book. I am a strong advocate against the cheating trope, and while this book definitely didn’t contain that, it did have some cheating sections that frustrated and irritated me. However, I felt the author wrote this into the book quite well, so while I disliked it, I didn’t hate it.

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