I kept seeing this book everywhere I went. With all the awards it won, how it has a movie with Kristen Stewart (no way!), and all this talk about Speak I've been meaning to read it for quite some time.I do have to say that I'm glad I did not read the description of the book on here (goodreads.com) or on the inner lining of the book. I am also glad that I read this when I was older. I think I appreciate it more.Anderson ability to throw you into the mess of high school and all those emotions was unbelievable. I felt horrible for Melinda and I wanted to kill Andy. I love the character of David and I hope he gets accepted to Harvard.Moving on, the overall storyline is very shaky and choppy. Anderson made you work for it, which is using what I like, but this time around, for such a short book, there were parts that did not need exploring. The relationship with Melinda and her stuffed toys of bunnies was trying to show that she was not fully grown up with and Anderson continued that comparison from her fear of seeing Andy to him locking her in the janitor's closet with him.I want to know what repercussions this Andy character ensued. I'm glad that Melinda was able to chop off her broken pieces and grow just like her tree, but I wanted to know what consequences Andy had to face. Melinda's entire consequence of speaking up was what made her have such fear during the entire book. And now it seems Andy got off scott-free. I liked this book, it was a sad tale, but I'm glad the main character was able to move on from it and grow. It's sad what happened and I know a girl from my high school was raped and it was all in the papers. She took a chance and spoke up about it, but because the boy that did it, yes he was truly a boy, and his daddy was the big guy in town, it was shushed and the girl and her family ended leaving town. I felt horrible for them.Anyway, this was a good young adult novel, like I said earlier I'm glad I read it as an adult so I could appreciate the book more.
Lost Between Pages
I love to read. I tend to read more fiction versus nonfiction. I have a goal to read as many books as I can before the year is up. I like to challenge myself and I also like to discover books that I never would've picked up in the first place. I prefer real books, but lately I have become obsessed with how easy it is to download an ebook on my kindle.
I kept seeing this book everywhere I went. With all the awards it won, how it has a movie with Kristen Stewart (no way!), and all this talk about Speak I've been meaning to read it for quite some time.I do have to say that I'm glad I did not read the description of the book on here (goodreads.com) or on the inner lining of the book. I am also glad that I read this when I was older. I think I appreciate it more.Anderson ability to throw you into the mess of high school and all those emotions was unbelievable. I felt horrible for Melinda and I wanted to kill Andy. I love the character of David and I hope he gets accepted to Harvard.Moving on, the overall storyline is very shaky and choppy. Anderson made you work for it, which is using what I like, but this time around, for such a short book, there were parts that did not need exploring. The relationship with Melinda and her stuffed toys of bunnies was trying to show that she was not fully grown up with and Anderson continued that comparison from her fear of seeing Andy to him locking her in the janitor's closet with him.I want to know what repercussions this Andy character ensued. I'm glad that Melinda was able to chop off her broken pieces and grow just like her tree, but I wanted to know what consequences Andy had to face. Melinda's entire consequence of speaking up was what made her have such fear during the entire book. And now it seems Andy got off scott-free. I liked this book, it was a sad tale, but I'm glad the main character was able to move on from it and grow. It's sad what happened and I know a girl from my high school was raped and it was all in the papers. She took a chance and spoke up about it, but because the boy that did it, yes he was truly a boy, and his daddy was the big guy in town, it was shushed and the girl and her family ended leaving town. I felt horrible for them.Anyway, this was a good young adult novel, like I said earlier I'm glad I read it as an adult so I could appreciate the book more.
