(This book just didn't grab me enough to merit a long review.) I found This Beautiful Life on Adult Books 4 Teens, and while it's reasonably relevant to the whole issue of online shaming that teens have to grapple with, I actually didn't find it especially engaging for teens. If the novel had been...
I have given this 3 stars because, although I thought most of this book rang true, I thought that the conclusion was rushed. I would have liked the author to have explored the fallout more thoroughly.
Once, the Bergamots were the darlings of the Manhattan jet set. Transplanted there by virtue of a job offer Richard Bergamot could not refuse, they packed up and left their happy, small town, suburban lifestyle for the fast pace of the city and a future of financial triumphs. Richard loved his new j...
This Beautiful Life is a poignantly written exploration of the emotional consequences of one's actions and how it can affect many lives in such a devastating way. It paints a stark portrait of the sacrifices and choices that are made in life, with regards to family, morality, and life altering lesso...
I can't say I liked this book. It took way too long to read because it kept putting me to sleep. The characters were real only in their unlikeability so I didn't really care what happened to them. However. I would make any child of mine read it before giving them their own computer or cell phone. It...
It felt uneven. I didn't start off liking the family -- but I think that was the intent. It seemed an odd choice to go back to Daisy at the end. I kept wondering about Coco and how she would fare long-term. I was glad it was a quick read, but my time would have been better spent on something else.
I finally finished reading the most recent book I won on Goodreads.At first glance, this appears to be a story about the dangers of teens sending sexually suggestive (or in the case of this book, explicit) messages to boys/girls they like. However, that event was just the catalyst for getting this ...
This Beautiful Life is both strikingly of the moment and just a bit behind the times. Its events take place in 2003, a time when many of us were starting to live online, but when the most common way to share over the internet was still via e-mail. A story in which the catalyst is a video that goes v...
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