I’ve read a lot of books lately that involve a missing person (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, The Girl on the Train) butEverything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is actually less about how the girl in question, Lydia, has disappeared and focuses more on the family she has left behind. It’s ...
I watched an interesting Maroon 5 music video a few weeks ago to the song “Maps.” It opens with Adam Levine bursting into the ER to find his girlfriend being frantically treated for life threatening injuries. The video then goes backwards, scene by scene, letting the viewer witness all events and ch...
I couldn't like this book. I really did try. I disliked Marilyn, Lydia's mom. I saw what was happening and I just wanted to smack her. How do you totally ignore your youngest child, put the nursery up in the attic?? I understand the need to be something different, not like your mother, but to dest...
"Everything I Never Told You" ist die Geschichte der Familie Lee. Eine Familie, die geprägt ist von Geheimnissen, eine Familie, in der niemand offen miteinander offen redet und somit auf eine Katastrophe zusteuert. Zugegeben, die Geschichte dieser Familie ist eine zutiefst traurige und trotzdem ist ...
We learn about this dysfunctional family through a story that alternates between the past and the present.Chinese-American James Lee knows what it's like to be different. All his life he has been left out because he doesn't look like everyone else. Marilyn's dreams of becoming a Doctor were put on h...
Initially, I thought Everything I Never Told You was going to be just another one of those complicated family dramas that have become so popular lately. You know, some sort of tragedy occurs, usually involving the death, kidnapping, or disappearance of a child, and the family dissolves. I've read qu...
* I Promise, I do talk about books in this post! Ever finish a Tv series you've been binging and then all other things feel dull and unsatisfying? That would be me for the last few weeks. I finished up The Killing and now I'm in this rut that I don't care to read or even discuss what I have r...
Secrets can kill. Not just the big ones, but the little ones that we live with everyday. They have a way of dragging you down like a weight, and if you can't let them go they will pull you to the bottom until you no longer have the ability escape. This book is a story of secrets. Marilyn can't escap...
The middle third of this book gripped me so hard I both didn't want to stop reading and had to take breaks because it was so emotionally intense. I enjoyed the book from the start but felt like I wouldn't love it--then I reached the portion where we start getting the perspective of Lydia, the dead d...
Everything I Never Told You, the debut novel by Celeste Ng, is the beautifully and gently told story of the Lee family living in Ohio in the 1970s. The themes of not belonging and not communicating recur with every character throughout the book. The adult characters, James and Marilyn, make choices ...
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