Get Over It on March 9

This post was originally written by M. Elwood for Toronto Public Library's web site. It was first published on March 9, 2016.

This is the latest in my seemingly endless series on crazy holidays that I connect in a tenuous way to books. Here we go:

Today is Get Over It Day, a holiday invented in 2005 by a man who was having trouble moving on after breaking up with his girlfriend. It is intended to be a day when people meet adversity with humour. 

These books about revenge would be a lot shorter if their characters had celebrated Get Over it Day.

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Charlie Johnson in the Flames by Michael Ignatieff
In 1998, while covering a story in Kosovo, war correspondent Charlie Johnson is shattered by the violent death of a woman who had given him shelter. Unable to cope with his guilt, he begins a quest for both vengeance and absolution.

Eléctrico W by Hervé Le Tellier
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In Lisbon to escape his failing relationship, a journalist discovers that the photographer he is working with is having an affair with the same woman. He decides that breaking her heart by having the photographer fall in love with someone else is his best chance for revenge. 

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
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• eBook
The unsolved murder of nine-year-old Robin Cleve Dusfresnes destroys his family. Now 12 years later, his sister Harriet, only a baby at the time of the crime, decides that the best way to rectify the damage is to solve the crime.

The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
• eBook
When a bombing kills their grandparents, twin brothers set out to avenge the deaths but must make a devastating sacrifice in the process.

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Scrapper by Matt Bell
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While salvaging for scrap metal in an abandoned building, a man finds instead a kidnapped child and, after the police fail to find the perpetrators, vows to solve the crime himself and exact revenge.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Charlie and Eli Sisters are gunslingers instructed to hunt down and kill a man who has turned against their employer. As the task proves difficult, Eli begins to question the necessity of their task. Winner of the Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize, Governor General's English Fiction Prize and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. 

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
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Young sweethearts Fiona and Joe plan to open their own shop one day but tragic events (including Jack the Ripper!) force them apart. Fleeing to New York to save her life, Fiona becomes a successful business woman but never stops planning revenge against the people responsible for ruining her life.

The Third Child by Marge Piercy
Melissa is lost and neglected between her politically important parents and her overachieving siblings. At university, finally free of her difficult home life, she begins an affair with a student destined to horrify her family; however she is unaware that the young man is planning retribution against her family for reasons of his own.

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COMMENT: 
AUTHOR: Elsa   

I really like this post! :) 

DATE: 03/09/2016

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