Nowadays, we don’t really struggle to live a good life, but it hasn’t always been like that. I read this book a quite long time ago, so here’s what the book says:
“A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.”
There are some stories that need to be told regardless of how sad or horrifying they might be. This is one of those stories. It shows the perspective of two kids fighting for a good life. 🙂
something, and has only had one girlfriend- for 23 hours. In eighth grade. Oh, yeah, and he’s an amputee-in other words, he has one less leg than everyone else. So, Josh sets out to find all the girls he’s attempted to date through his whole lifetime and ask them: what really went wrong?
Really, this book was a matter of life or death;from the very first page. Cata, Fergus, and 5 other teens have insomnia, and have volunteered to be a part of a new treatment. This treatment has only been tested on one other patient. But when the get put under, nothing goes as planned, and the teens are trapped in a dream-or, really, it’s a nightmare world where their worst fears come true and the teens are forced to bond together to fight their way out. In the real world, the doctors think that the kids are in a coma. But, apparently, not.
This book seriously triggered some emotions-okay. A lot. It shows a girl’s life with an eating disorder that has been slowly eating (Hah. Eating) her up day by day. In addition, she has a voice in her head telling her what to do-put on makeup, don’t eat this meal, you’re so ugly, etc. This girl’s name is Elena. Told from her perspective, it shows her struggles to fit in and be skinny. At the end, when I read the author’s note, I was shocked to find that this book is actually a true story about herself. I should have realized this sooner-a main character named Elena and an author named Elena? That’s too much of a coincidence. So, to sum it all up, this book is technically a memoir of the author’s life. Her mother, Clare, actually helped her write this book (hence the two authors in the title) 😛 I loved this book so much! But here’s a tip: If you don’t like rape or self-harm, DON’T READ THIS BOOK!
15 books, I highly advise you not to read this review as it may contain some spoilers from those books. So….without spoiling THIS book, I’ll just copy and paste what it says on the book:
in the library-until TODAY! I was browsing the award winner shelves for teens and I found this blessed book! Honestly the whole time I was reading this book I felt like I was floating in a marshmallow-ey rainbow cloud of happiness. Seriously. 🙂 It left me with the hugest and most awesome-est smile plastered on my face. I couldn’t stop my fingers from flipping the crisp pages of this book. So, without further ado……let’s get on topic and actually talk about the book. So, a guy named Simon. That’s the main character, in case you hadn’t realized yet. 😛 Simon is gay. But not openly-yet. He’s been talking with a guy named Blue by email. He has no idea who Blue really is, but as their email get more flirtatious by the second, he’s getting desperate. But when his emails fall into wrong hands, Martin, the class clown, is blackmailing Simon into being his wingman-or else Simon’s sexuality and his emails to Blue will be revealed to the whole school. Things have gone even more complicated than they were before he found out he was gay. And obviously, we all know that’s a big no-no.
RIGHT? I’m joking. Well, I’m not saying it didn’t teach me anything, but it didn’t really make so much sense either. The whole base of the book was literally: “I will change my pheromones to win my ex back who broke up with me.” Which is kind of dumb, for starters. 🙁 But just to keep this review a little positive, I really liked the whole theme of the book, but it’s definitely heavier on the science and lighter on the romance than I anticipated. Which I know some people like, but hear me out: The book was in the romance section of the library, so I decided, ‘why not?’ and took it. I was hooked right when I read the description: