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I love my library! I love that they get new books that I want to read, very soon after publication. Here are the last three books I've read:
1. Starclimber, by Kenneth Oppel. I finished it minutes ago. I loved this series! I love the action adventure, and I love how Oppel makes us feel for Matt, the underdog who deserves so much better. How does he do this? I think he lets us see what Matt is really like, and then shows us how other people totally overlook that. And he doesn't hold back on letting bad things happen to Matt, so that the reader feels a sock in the stomach as much as Matt.
2. Flipped, by Wendelin van Draanen. Okay, this is partially cheating to list this, since it's a reread and since I went out and bought it after my initial read so I could enjoy it whenever I wanted. But what an excellent dual POV! I love how you think you know what really happened--only to get the other character's point of view next and realize how very wrong you were. It is a perfectly constructed book.
3. Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X. Stork. I read it yesterday and am still thinking about it. It's about a 17-year-old old high-functioning Asperger's kid who has to work in his dad's law firm for the summer. The "real world," as opposed to the special school he's always gone to (and wants to keep going to). I meant to read it just for entertainment purposes, but couldn't help being wowed by the way Stork lays down all the motivations and stakes so deftly and cleanly so that when it comes for Marcelo to make his choice--bam. It carries weight and sends all the dominoes falling.
What about you? What are the last three books you read, and what did you take away from them?
1. Starclimber, by Kenneth Oppel. I finished it minutes ago. I loved this series! I love the action adventure, and I love how Oppel makes us feel for Matt, the underdog who deserves so much better. How does he do this? I think he lets us see what Matt is really like, and then shows us how other people totally overlook that. And he doesn't hold back on letting bad things happen to Matt, so that the reader feels a sock in the stomach as much as Matt.
2. Flipped, by Wendelin van Draanen. Okay, this is partially cheating to list this, since it's a reread and since I went out and bought it after my initial read so I could enjoy it whenever I wanted. But what an excellent dual POV! I love how you think you know what really happened--only to get the other character's point of view next and realize how very wrong you were. It is a perfectly constructed book.
3. Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X. Stork. I read it yesterday and am still thinking about it. It's about a 17-year-old old high-functioning Asperger's kid who has to work in his dad's law firm for the summer. The "real world," as opposed to the special school he's always gone to (and wants to keep going to). I meant to read it just for entertainment purposes, but couldn't help being wowed by the way Stork lays down all the motivations and stakes so deftly and cleanly so that when it comes for Marcelo to make his choice--bam. It carries weight and sends all the dominoes falling.
What about you? What are the last three books you read, and what did you take away from them?
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Far From You (by Lisa Schroeder) Loved this very touching and realistic YA (have loved both of her books -- I can think of several kids that are struggling with life and death issues that I need to give this to). Very emotional and insightful and real -- about dealing with the death of a loved one.
Prom (By Laurie Halse Anderson) Okay. Not really my thing, but definitely upper YA. A story about a girl uninterested in Prom who gets sucked into helping save her senior prom and then finds that she really does care. I suppose the thing I took from this is that sometimes things are different than we expect them to be.
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