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title: Tuesday Tells it Slant

author: Holly Christine

genre: fiction

published: 2010

pages: 267

first line: Claudia, Isn't it funny how we sometimes forget the things we thought we'd never lose?

rated: 3 1/2 out of 5

Tuesday Morning has always been a little... different. She's kept a diary since 1989 and while researching for her senior seminar paper on Emily Dickinson's Transcendental tendencies, reads a poem that will change her life.


And not just her future. Tuesday changes her past.



We all have secrets and skeletons in our closets, but Tuesday has managed to clean hers out with a pen and a diary. Just how precious is our past? And how much has our past created what we are today?
How far would you go to forget your past?

Tuesday Tells it Slant is mostly written in the form of diary entries that vary from past to present time.


Monday and Tuesday Morning are twins. Tuesday's mother gave her a journal when she was a little girl and told her to name it, so each entry begins with 'Dear Claudia'.


Tuesday's journal entries are about her life from grade school into her twenties. She works as a book reviewer and editor at a literary magazine called The End.


I liked the relationships within the book. Tuesday and her sister Monday are very close, and she you get to read about their lives growing up from middle school and into their twenties. Tuesday is in love with her childhood sweetheart and best friend Billy.

Something happens to Tuesday that changes her life forever, and she'd rather forget this event than live with it. She re-writes her diary the way she would have liked the events to have happened, and then she goes to see a hypnotist in order to erase certain memories.




One thing that was a bit confusing were the flashbacks and flashforwards in the book. She goes back and forth from 1990 thru 2009. You are reading her diary entries throughout her life, but not in order. Some of the flashbacks were from present time, to the very recent past, then to present time again, only to go back way into the past once more.



I really liked is that each chapter beings with an Emily Dickinson poem, since Tuesday discovered the poet while writing a paper for school.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth's superb surprise



As Lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind --

-Emily Dickinson

All in all, I enjoyed Tuesday Tells it Slant . I think I would have enjoyed this read much more if the diary entries were written in chronological order. I didn't enjoy the jumping back and forth with the flashbacks and flashforwards.


Some of the writing in this book is really great. I'll leave you with a few of my favorite tidbits:

And now it's time to let it all go. If he's mine, I will find him again. If not, I will go on as I am supposed to. There is no grief. There is no pain. And finally, after all of this time, I can be free of the demons in my past, those haunting memories that hung over my head for so long. Those terrible insecurities that have kept me from being true to myself. Tomorrow I am new again. A rebirth. A new future, a change in the present by slanting the past. My new truth.

-Tuesday

Claudia,

Isn't it funny how we sometimes forget the things we thought we'd never lose? We take in the day and promise each other that this day, this very day, will stay with us forever and ever and we will never let this moment leave our soul. It will stay in our mind until death and even upon death we won't forget. We will find it again in heaven, whispering it's syrupy sounds of reverie into our souls and reviving our spirits with the saccharine sounds of bliss.

Tuesday could never understand how anyone on earth could return a book that they had purchased. Books were prized possessions to Tuesday. Each one brought out a different side of her; each one meant something more and each one took her away from her life for a while.

about the author:

Holly Christine is the author of The Nine Lives of Clemenza, Retail Ready, and the recently completed Tuesday Tells it Slant. She began storytelling at the age of six with riveting tales of horror in the classroom.

In 2005 she completed her first novel, which remains in the nightstand. By 2006 she had completed The Nine Lives of Clemenza and patiently waited for a six figure deal from A Major Publishing House. Receiving no such contract, she took matters into her own hands in early 2009 and published Clemenza on her own. As reviews came in for her first published work, a new found confidence in her writing brought forth Retail Ready, which she immediately published in May of 2009. Believing that the muse was silent, Holly carried on a normal life until December of 2009 when the inspiration for Tuesday Tells it Slant hit. Twenty days and an unfathomable amount of coffee later, she published Tuesday Tells it Slant.

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