I read Nina LaCour’s THE DISENCHANTMENTS last month and loved it so much I raced out to pick up her first novel, HOLD STILL. Oh, how I loved this one as well. It is very different than TD, but just as moving. Caitlin is starting her junior year frozen and shocked by the loss of her best friend, Ingr...
There's so much to love about this beautiful book, and I don't know if I'm up to reviewing it. So, things that I loved-1. The language, the wonderful, beautiful way LaCour wrote. 2. Caitlin herself, and how painfully realistic her grief and regret were.3. Ingrid, and her powerful presence after her ...
I really don't have words for this story. I read it on a whim because it was short and I figured I would be an easy read. What I got instead was so complex and wonderful that I think any type of review I leave wouldn't do the story or the characters and their journey any justice.
On the one hand it’s kind of fascinating to think about the infinite possibilities of a person’s inner self. To think of all of their thoughts and emotions, not just the ones they share with you. To imagine all of the puzzle pieces to their personality in one box instead of just the pieces they put...
I know most of us haven't experienced a loss of someone very close to us, especially a best friend. But now I get understand how it feels like if ever that situation happens. It may be sad for a very long time, it may be very difficult to cope up with, but I think at some point there's this realizat...
Hold Still is a book about living wrapped up in the story of suicide. Caitlin's best friend, Ingrid, commented suicide unexpectedly. We meet Caitlin the summer after this event which is also the summer before her junior year of high school. The concept of using Ingrid's journal - discovered by Cai...
All those missunderstood, lost, artistic types are driving me crazy... For God sake, they are fifteen year old kids - not middle-aged unfulfilled adults!!!
HOLD STILL starts with Caitlin in a very dark place after her best friend Ingrid kills herself. It progresses (sometimes painfully, sometimes sweetly) with her struggling to accept and let go. Maybe it isn’t meant to be deep, to answer questions. Maybe it is. Personally, I thought that this book was...
I LOVED this book.Really, that's all I have to say. I could end the review right here. However, it would be enough to explain how amazing this book was. When I finished it, I wanted to turn to the first page and reread it again. Hold Still was so beautifully and poetically written. The storyline was...
full review can be found on my blog, holes In My brainHold Still is a new spin on an old topic, Caitlin’s best friend Ingrid had committed suicide, leaving Caitlin to tackle life all by herself. There is a lot of common themes of loss, grief and love but I felt that the way LaCour set the book apart...
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