by Judy Blume
I love revisiting some of my favorite authors from growing up, and Judy Blume wrote some great ones. However, I hadn't read Tiger Eyes. Shocking, I know. Davey's father is killed in a tragic holdup at their convenience store, and her family tries to find a way to move on. They visit her aunt and...
Ahh... Judy Blume. I have many fond memories of reading her books as a kid and while I was on vacation in the States I got it in my head that if I found old copies of the books I liked best, I'd snap them up. Enter my day at McKay's Books with Degrees of Affection. I'm sure she thought I was a ta...
A 2.5 star review.Slightly disappointing... although I don't know why, as I seem to remember being disappointed by it when I read it as a teen as well, but guess I'd somehow built it up in my mind anyway.But the thing that got me is that it starts out really strong, so for most of the book I had hig...
Loved this. I think listening to this on audio enhanced the experience for me--the narrator was fantastic. Her voice was affective and I was able to differentiate all the characters very easily. Davey is a great character; she's prickly but loving; hurting and angry and desperate to reach out. Her t...
One of my favorite things about this book was the setting of Los Alamos and the idea of the fearfulness of the people living there. It adds so much depth to the novel. Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias.
Davey is 15 years old and lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her whole life changes in one night when her father is shot to death in his store.After her father's death, Davey just isn't the same. She lays in bed all day, for days on end and even doesn't bath sometimes. But when Davey's aunt Bitsy a...
I'm sad I never picked this up when I was a kid. I would have loved it desperately then. I liked it a lot reading it now, but it wasn't the same. Dated in parts, but in a good way. I found myself analyzing the adults' actions a lot, and finding them for the most part believable. And Wolf. Mmmm, love...
Perhaps if I had read it when I was the intended age I would have been more moved.
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