by John Green
I read this because I like to read books that are "all the rage." I really enjoyed it. If you're like me and you hate knowing too much about a book before you've read it, then don't watch the movie trailer. You get about 95% of the plot in the trailer. I suppose it isn't very plot driven, but still...It's a quick read full of angsty teenagers...who have cancer. I thought Mr. Green did a good job of making the teenagers feel like teenagers despite battling debilitating illnesses. The relationship between the two main characters seemed a little underdeveloped, but I may have only felt that way because I read it really fast.
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by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Language of Flowers is a book about a girl just graduated out of the foster system who is healing from a difficult past and learning to accept a different future. Laced throughout the story is her obsession with the Victorian language of flowers; her passion for it interrupts her destructive cycles. As I read I kept comparing this book to What Alice Forgot in that it had a pretty compelling concept that lost a little steam once I'd gotten used to it, but then it ended well. Overall, I really enjoyed reading it.
The Language of Flowers is a book about a girl just graduated out of the foster system who is healing from a difficult past and learning to accept a different future. Laced throughout the story is her obsession with the Victorian language of flowers; her passion for it interrupts her destructive cycles. As I read I kept comparing this book to What Alice Forgot in that it had a pretty compelling concept that lost a little steam once I'd gotten used to it, but then it ended well. Overall, I really enjoyed reading it.
by Ann Patchett
When I read the synopsis of this book I was pretty uninspired. Opera and terrorists? How would that even work? But this book...I know a book has me when I stop being an English teacher while I'm reading it and just fall into the experience. Bel Canto did this for me. I loved it. It's hopeful and heartwrenching: a hostage situation meets Babette's Feast.
If Bel Canto moves us out of beach reads, then Housekeeping has us at Full Blown Literature. It was my first experience with Ms. Robinson, and my is she something. The book was on the heavy side - cold, foggy - but it was short and her prose is so effortlessly crafted with such a mix of eerie female characters, I highly recommend it - but probably as an Autumn read over a Summer read since it definitely isn't CandyLit.
Also just read my first Robinson which was Gilead. Now I'm eager to pick up Housekeeping.
ReplyDeleteHousekeeping is one of my very favorite books! Maybe I'm stroking my own Comparative Literature major ego, but I totally agree with you that it's not a beach read :)
ReplyDeleteBel Canto right?!? Seriously, I still get chills thinking about it, yet it's incredibly hard to describe as a book someone should read. I've had Housekeeping on my to-read list for what seems like years so maybe come fall I'll read it! (And I've read all the others and agree with you. For the record.)
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Our Fault is in the Stars, but every person I see everywhere is reading it. My Dad sent me this article.. Basically the author argues that this book is a very subtle teen introduction to Nihilism... Wonder what you think... http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2014/the-fault-in-our-stories.html
ReplyDeleteHaven't read that article yet, but my first thought is that it wasn't very subtle ;) Thanks for the link!
DeleteLoved the first three and really want to read the last two! Thanks for the recommendations. This has been a summer of books for me so far, and I hope it continues!
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