A problem I have when either reading an ebook (my autocorrect wants to change this to snook!) or listening to an audio book is that I have no real sense of where I am in the story. Is this conflict being introduced halfway through the story or is it near the end? It makes a difference. For me this i...
My freshman year of college I had to write a small research paper about Autism. Ever since then, I've been endlessly fascinated with learning more about the condition. I can spend hours watching Discovery Health Channel documentaries about the disorder. When I heard a classmate talk about this book ...
This book is awesome! I started reading it and couldn't put it down! You come to love the main character and you can't help rooting for him as he learns through his trials. This book has a complex way of looking at life and can be related to our lives in the "real world". This book is up there with ...
This book is so good I may have to take a break from reading--anything else wouldn't measure up. It's so good I'm consumed with despair that I will never write anything as beautiful or as important. It's so good I can't review it properly--any words I might choose wouldn't do it justice.
Perfectly pleasant story of a young man with Asperger's who is challenged by his father to work in the mail room at the law firm his father heads so he can get some experience with the real world. Marcelo's voice is really well done throughout the entire book but I felt most of the other character...
by Francisco X. StorkOpening line--"'Marcelo, are you ready?'"Marcelo's brain is a little bit different. He doesn't like to use Asperger's Syndrome as his diagnosis, but it's the closest thing he has to help people understand. He attends a school which is designed for kids like him, which supports a...
There is a quote from this book that I really like:"I deal with people like him a hundred times a day. They look at me and naturally assume I'm not as smart as they are. God help us. But think about it, it's a tremendous tactical advantage, not to mention personally liberating, to have others think ...
While it does have its flaws, this book is both a pioneer and a solid offering. Marcelo's voice was difficult to understand at first. I wish he had explained his tendency to refer to his parents by their given names much sooner, as I first thought his mother was a health worker, and later I thought ...
Amazingly good. Stork did a fine job of getting inside Marcelo's head and making him a real teenager, not just a stereotype. The philosophy and religion aspects were a bit much for me, but the examination of evil was astute.
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