Lara Zielin

Okay, it’s pretty much official: author Eileen Cook and I share a brain.

I just got done reading her adorable book, WHAT WOULD EMMA DO?, and I have to say, it has a lot in common with DONUT DAYS. Like, you remember how I wrote that author Sarah Quigley and I had a bunch of crazy coincidences happen to us? Well, this might just put that to shame.

Here are some of the scary-cool ties our books share:

1.) Both our main characters are named Emma.

2.) Both our Emmas are struggling to figure out what they believe, all while being in the center of a very religious environment.

3.) Both our Emmas are in a fight with their best friends.

4.) Both our Emmas are also fighting with their parents (or in the case of Eileen’s book, that would be parent, singular) about where they should go to college.

5.) Both our Emmas are trying to make their college education happen on their own, through a scholarship.

Those are just a few of the main similarities, but there are other more subtle ones. Like, I felt Eileen’s writing was a lot like mine, and her pacing and dialogue was similar to DONUT DAYS. At one point, I think we both used a metaphor for a book that involved a tree’s falling leaves. She pointed out the hypocrisies of the church in her text, and I tried to do that in DD as well.

I thought her book was funny, clever, and charming. Does that mean I think DD is funny, clever and charming? Hmmm … I guess all I can say is that you should read both books and look for the similarities yourself!

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