by Sally Nicholls
Very heartwarming. I enjoyed the journal style of the book. This would be an excellent book for a child who is going through an illness, or any young child witnessing such an event.
This was my last book of 2010. Not really a bad way to end the year, kind of putting me in mind of death and the continuance of life and all that. I liked Sam's story, although at times it was a little too perfect. It's absolutely predictable. However, Sally Nicholl's writing saved it from being too...
Sam has actue lymphoblastic leukemia, for the third time. He's not going to survive it, so he does what anyone who wants to be remembered would do: writes a book. His book is a memoir, full of lists, like the list of things to do before he dies that his friend Felix, who's also pretty ill, suggest...
I dunno. Everyone said they LOOOOVED this book---but it felt like just another cancer book to me. I mean, it's not too hokey, which is good. But I wasn't wowed by it.
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