![]() She wants out of her small town and away from everything.Įnter the hockey team and co-captains Will and Josh, AKA one of the very few love triangles I will actually spring for. But while baking and waitressing are fun, Hudson wants more out of life. She’s known as the “Cupcake Queen”, the quiet girl who hides in the kitchen of her mom’s diner and makes out-of-this-world amazing cupcakes. ![]() Things like wanting to stay loyal to her family and friends while at the same time being her own person. Things like her parents’ divorce, the collapse of her skating career, the loss of her former best friend, and her now-single mother’s struggle to keep the power on at home. Because in a place where opportunities are fleeting, she knows this chance may very well be her last. It’s time for Hudson to ask herself what she really wants, and how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get it. She’s got a lot on her plate, and for a girl who’s been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done. and starts serving up some seriously mixed signals. Of course, this is also the moment a cute, sweet guy walks into her life. So when things start looking up and she has another shot at her dreams, Hudson is equal parts hopeful and terrified. ![]() ![]() a girl who stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner and obsessing over what might have been. Now she’s a girl who doesn’t believe in second chances. Then a betrayal changed her life, and knocked her dreams to the ground. Once upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. ![]()
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![]() And then she remembers.this particular magic requires something more, something special, something to do with food.people food. Grandma Poss can’t find the spell to make Hush visible again. But being invisible isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Hush longs to see herself again. But one day, when danger arrives in the form of a snake, Grandma uses her most magical spell to make Hush invisible. She makes wombats blue and kookaburras pink. ![]() Using a clever, nuanced palette of live action, stage magic, an original soundscape, elements of puppetry and projected animation, Monkey Baa’s award-winning creative team have translated the whimsical world of the book to a live experience for audiences 3–8 years (and their families). Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’ beloved picture book ‘Possum Magic’ has enchanted children for decades and Monkey Baa Theatre Company brings the paper and ink to life on stage once again! ![]() A Monkey Baa Theatre Company production Possum Magicīased on the book by Mem Fox and Julie VivasĪdapted by Eva Di Cesare and Sandra Eldridge ![]() ![]() ![]() It will be interesting to see how long this new sensitivity to touching will last in our collective psyche as we eventually move past the pandemic, but that’s a whole other blog post in itself. Reading it through the lens of the pandemic is an experience in itself because the main character is a very physical person, so I vacillated between jealousy and disgust as she touched her way through the story. It’s about a lot of things being a young black American woman, being a young broke millennial, navigating the punishing life of a gig worker, and always feeling like an outsider. ![]() Although very different from what I expected it to be, (it was very lyrical, almost like a poem), Luster by Raven Leilani is everything I had hoped for frustrating, disheartening, beautiful and heartbreaking. I’ve had this book on my shelf for awhile now and I didn’t get to it earlier because of other reading commitments, but I was really excited to finally dive in because a) it’s been getting exceptional reviews and b) I loved another book similar to it, Queenie. ![]() |