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Shine by Lauren Myracle5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Caution: adult language, but well worth the read. ![]() Update 2: Libba Bray chimes in with a fierce defense of Myracle. ![]() And for the commenter who thinks I'm being hard … huh? Where did you get that I'm being hard on Billingsley? Are you reading in the same language that I'm writing in? -Anne. In the book Shine by Lauren Myracle, seventeen-year-old Patrick Truman was beaten by a bat, tied to a guardrail of a fuel dispenser and had a gasoline pump duct taped in his mouth. Update: Gah! Serves me right for only looking under our Young Adult nominations. Then again, writing god Sherman Alexie won a National Book Award in this same category in 2007 but lost in Cybils to Barry Lyga for "Boy Toy." You just never know. "Shine" is a Cybils nominee and "Chime" is not. Myracle's statement sounds gracious and all, but here's a bit of consolation for her, for what it's worth: Wouldn't you know that the judges meant to include "Chime" by Franny Billingsley all along, but some staffer heard "Shine" by Lauren Myracle over the phone. ![]() Well, here's a sorry update about playing telephone, grown-up version. The cause of Patrick’s beating was because of his over concern of this boyfriend, Beef. This is one of the few times Myracle uses inverted syntax in the novel. To make a long story short, the Young Peoples Literature category first came out last week with five nominees and then a sixth was added just afterward. Patrick probably had blisters erupting around his mouth, that was one thing I read on the medical sites I pulled up. By now, hardcore bibliophiles know the controversy over the mysterious sixth nomination to the National Book Awards. ![]()
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