by Christina Meldrum, Kirsten Potter
This must have been on my list because it takes place in Maine. Little did I know it would be populated by over-educated evangelical totally batshit Danes. The discussions about poisonous herbs and gnostic gospels were kind of interesting but it was all a little too Lars Von Triers for me.
Apart from a few annoyingly unanswered questions, this book was simply fantastic. I had been misinformed about Madapple and believed it to be a book mostly about teen pregnancy, but though the book does contain this, it is actually about much more exciting stuff. It's realistic fiction and yet there...
I knew this was going to be dark, but I wasn't expecting this: Aslaug's story is dark, twisted, confusing, sad and frustrating.. but through all of it, I was stuck. I wanted, no, needed, to know how it would all turn out. Is this YA? I think not. She's young but her story takes things to a whole ot...
HOLY CRAP.It's been three years and some change since I read this and I still remember it vividly.Yeah, I freaking loved it like crazy when I was sixteen.
Resonating with my own childhood spent wandering woods and fields, this haunting novel tells the tale of a girl caught up in what others think of her. She hardly has an opinion of her own because she, like a butterfly, was captured and pinned down while still fresh. There is a constant interplay of ...
Let me start by saying that in some weird way, this book blew me away.Madapple is the story of Aslaug Hellig, a bright girl who was raised in near isolation by her genius -- but disturbed -- mother. When Aslaug's mother dies, Aslaug goes to the only place she can remember her mother having taken he...
I was definitely interested in this one. It pulled me in and made me curious. I think maybe it was a little too long, but I really enjoyed reading it.
Aslaug lives a sheltered life with her mother. She is thrust into a world she knows nothing about when mother dies. Hoping to find her father, Aslaug instead meets her long lost cousins and aunt who run a church. Commonly accepted Christian doctrine is challenged throughout the text, mainly by cousi...
hmmm...well, i found this book to be very well written, with beautiful descriptions and haunting images. the author has clearly done her research, and i was fascinated by the botanical aspects. i also liked the trial sequences interspersed between flashbacks. i wanted to keep reading to find out w...
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