Also available on The Book Lantern. Though Contemporary YA is a sprawling genre that deals with a wide variety of themes and characters, there are surprisingly few writers willing to take extreme chances with their books, and mix things up until their stories have become as morally ambiguous as FMA ...
35 pages before I abandoned. I thought I was going to love it after 15 pages but nope, I just couldn't - this was too whiny for me and I could not connect to either narrator.
How To Save A Life is Sara Zarr’s first UK release and was a highly anticipated read for me from the moment an author whose writing I really love, Tanya Byrne, mentioned how much she enjoyed Zarr’s writing. When the lovely Amy and Usborne offered me a proof copy, I was desperate to read it and start...
Reasons I chose to read this book.1. I like the song.2. I liked the cover.3. Favorable reviews on GRs.4. Free download from the library.But I would not have chosen to read the book solely on the synopsis of this book. Reading about pregnant teens is not my firs choice. So imagine my surprise at ho...
I had a hard time liking Jill and at the same time I felt sorry for how simple Mandy was. "I don't want this to be a baby from fear and sadness. I want this to be a baby from cornfields and Ferris wheels and stars." to
Posted on Book Chelle.I was a little hesitant to read Sara Zarr’s How to Save a Life. From reading the synopsis, I wasn’t sure if this was a story that I would be able to relate to. I wasn’t sure if I was even at a place, emotionally, to be open enough to the subject discussed throughout the book. B...
Jill's dad, her dad who she was just like, her dad who understood her better than anyone else, her dad who, yeah, okay, was her favorite parent, is dead. And both she and her mom have grown apart, without her dad to bring them together, but now...now, her mom's gone crazy. Her 52-year old mother i...
I like reading about people who are trying to be better, so reading Mandy's efforts at creating a life worth living, alternated with Jill's effort to have hope again, was moving and warm. I particularly liked watching Mandy get a little distance from her mother, and see her a little more clearly ove...
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