when i read the summary of this book, i assumed that i was in for a heartfelt tale of male bonding that comes to a crashing halt from some sort of tragic death - cancer, suicide, a car accident, etc, etc. but i was pleasantly surprised that this book actually didn't go the predictable route in the s...
I Read this book back in 2009 I was still very much sheltered and hadn't had much exposer to other forms of writing, “heavy” sex scenes, or the like I had come off of finish the twilight saga and before that harry potter (at least in my mind I didn't have a good reads till october that year so the t...
I don't think I've ever read a YA novel quite like this one. The narrator is quite old - in his 70s - and has old man problems, like sciatica and a touchy prostate. He is also a writer, who is writing this story about his experience with a young man called Karl who comes to him for help just as he n...
One evening, Nicholas Christopher Frome was lying idly in his bath when the thought struck him that eventually he would die.He had of course thought this before. He is no fool.But that evening it penetrated his consciusness with a terrible clarity. A clarity so pure, so undeniable that despite the p...
"If I die first you dance on my grave".I read Dance On My Grave in one sitting. It might be one of my favourite Aidan Chambers novels. The full title reflects more on the content: Dance on My Grave: A Life and Death in Four Parts One Hundred and Seventeen Bits Six Running Reports and Two Press Clipp...
Literature is crap. Fiction is, anyway. A pretense. Ersatz... When you read a story you are pretending a lie.I love Aidan Chambers, I truly do. I'm quite excited for the release of his latest novel, Dying to Know You, which has just been published in Italian. However, I want to read and review all h...
THREE WORDS: Quietly Beautiful & BreathtakingMY REVIEW: Aidan Chambers’ Dying To Know You turned out to be quite an unexpected and wonderfully unusual Contemporary YA read.Shy, endearing Karl’s girlfriend Fiorella has asked him to bare his soul and feelings in the form of letters to her, in which he...
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