There are two constants in Opals grungy green baseball cap, and her troubled pal, Marianne, whom Opal loves as a best friend . . . and even more. B...
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Aug 14, 2008
Jennifer
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Marianne and Opal have always had a special connection. Home schooled for a time, when they were separated their first day in a real school, neither girl was the same. They screamed and only relaxed when they were together in the same room holding hands. As they grew up, there was always the unique bond. But Marianne often wanted to test her wings and try to fit in with the popular crowd. She tried to join the cheerleading team. And she made up More...
Marianne and Opal have always had a special connection. Home schooled for a time, when they were separated their first day in a real school, neither girl was the same. They screamed and only relaxed when they were together in the same room holding hands. As they grew up, there was always the unique bond. But Marianne often wanted to test her wings and try to fit in with the popular crowd. She tried to join the cheerleading team. And she made up More...
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May 25, 2008
KT
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It's a pleasure to read a first novel that is well written and that introduces an author with a lot of talent and promise.
M+O4evr is a short, spare narrative that packs a lot of emotion without ever becoming melodramatic. Written from the point of view of an 18-year-old African-American woman, it tells the story of the lifelong friendship between the main character, Opal, and Marianne, the biracial daughter of an Amish woman who has left her community. Although Opal seems to have eve More...
M+O4evr is a short, spare narrative that packs a lot of emotion without ever becoming melodramatic. Written from the point of view of an 18-year-old African-American woman, it tells the story of the lifelong friendship between the main character, Opal, and Marianne, the biracial daughter of an Amish woman who has left her community. Although Opal seems to have eve More...
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Oct 11, 2011
Miyuki-isb
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I chose a novel called M+O 4EVR by Tonya Cherie Hegamin just by looking at the book cover. I was wondering what does M and O stand for, and usually teenagers tend to write the word "forever" as "4EVR" which was part of the title, so I could assume that this novel is about teenage people. And I was right. The novel had many serious issues that teenagers face such as suicide, drugs, alcohol etc. The interesting part of the book was that the main characters, Opal and Marriane bo
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Mar 13, 2010
Kelly
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Opal and Marianne are best friends, and have been their entire lives. Where they live in rural Pennsylvania, they are the only people "like them": Marianne is mixed race black and white, and Opal is black. Marianne has trouble finding her place in the world, and at times she abandons Opal to "pretend to be white," as Opal puts it. Opal is in love with Marianne, and dreams of moving to California with her when they graduate high school, to a city where no one will care what th
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Sep 08, 2008
Jennifer
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“Laughing and screaming, we finally broke out of the woods into a huge meadow, the stiff yellow grass up to our waists. She collapsed, pulling me down beside her, and we panted in unison like puppies. What I wouldn’t have given to stay like that forever – the dry, whistling grass towering protectively around us, just us.”
But nothing lasts forever.
M + O stands for Marianne and Opal, two friends since childhood who share a unique bond. They were once inseparable, but now More...
But nothing lasts forever.
M + O stands for Marianne and Opal, two friends since childhood who share a unique bond. They were once inseparable, but now More...
Jul 28, 2011
I thought this book was good but not great. I really enjoyed being in Opals head, but I think that this book might have been longer and more satisfying if we had learned more about Marianne's perspective and her recent choices. It is another rich offering to the "love interest dies halfway through the book" subgenre, but it doesn't really shine as queer lit or as a YA book on its own. People who like sad stories or short novels might really love it, but I wasn't personally blown awa
Mar 26, 2011
Tara
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Jan 27, 2011
I think Lee Wind has some of the most thoughtful, dead-on review of YA. Just like other times, he seems to channel his audience in this review.
Sep 08, 2008
Nancy
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M(arianne) and O(pal) have been best friends forever -- at least until the past year when M decided she wanted to be a cheerleader and found O a hindrence, when accusations of lesbianism flew across the lunchroom at her. M is slowly, but obviously sliding down the steep slope of self-destruction, while O clings to her fantasies of getting into Stanford and taking O to California with her. When tragedy strikes, O must find a path of her own.
Feb 16, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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While I found this story interesting, and I was compelled to read on to find out how it ended, I don't understand what the story of Hannah the slave meant in relation to that of Opal. Was it supposed to teach her something? I actually would have liked it better if the story of Opal and the story of Hannah were two separate books. I would have particularly liked to hear more about Hannah. Not a bad read, but confusing.
Jul 18, 2008
vani
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I hope this writer gets lots of love and becomes a fixture in teen collections like Jacqueline Woodson or someone like that. This book is lovely and nostalgic and smartly weaves in history, queerness, insights on race and class in a small mining town, plus so much more. I couldn't quite place it historically, but references to Sheila E. made me think....the early 80's?
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