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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
Nie hat mich ein Buch mehr gepackt wie dieses und dabei handelt es sich noch nicht mal einen Thriller oder Krimi.
Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Addison Stone und wie sie mit ihrem künsterlirschen Talent in New York gelandet ist und was bis zu ihren Tod passiert ist.
Dabei wird die Geschichte aus Interviews erzählt und wie die Personen in ihrer Umgebung Addison wahrgenommen haben. Dabei entsteht ein sehr unterschiedliches Bild von ihr. Auf der einen Seite geliebt auf der anderen gehasst. Addison ist auf alle Fälle eine Person die macht was ihr gefällt egal ob es irgendwelche Regeln gibt, die was verbieten.
So lebensfroh sie ist gibt es auch eine Schattenseite bei ihr, die ihr m Leben im Weg steht.
Man fiebert in den Interviews mit, was aus Addison wird und wie es soweit kommen konnte. Die Handlung ist sehr real da die Personen alle sehr authentisch rüber kommen.
Eine Biographie der „besonderen“ Art.
Die Erzählart, der Schreibstil, die Bilder im Buch und auch sowohl das Buch selber mit seinen Cover, welches einem Hochglanzmagazine ähnelt, machen dieses Buch zu was wundervollen.
Ich bin gespannt was die Autorin noch niederschreibt.
Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Addison Stone und wie sie mit ihrem künsterlirschen Talent in New York gelandet ist und was bis zu ihren Tod passiert ist.
Dabei wird die Geschichte aus Interviews erzählt und wie die Personen in ihrer Umgebung Addison wahrgenommen haben. Dabei entsteht ein sehr unterschiedliches Bild von ihr. Auf der einen Seite geliebt auf der anderen gehasst. Addison ist auf alle Fälle eine Person die macht was ihr gefällt egal ob es irgendwelche Regeln gibt, die was verbieten.
So lebensfroh sie ist gibt es auch eine Schattenseite bei ihr, die ihr m Leben im Weg steht.
Man fiebert in den Interviews mit, was aus Addison wird und wie es soweit kommen konnte. Die Handlung ist sehr real da die Personen alle sehr authentisch rüber kommen.
Eine Biographie der „besonderen“ Art.
Die Erzählart, der Schreibstil, die Bilder im Buch und auch sowohl das Buch selber mit seinen Cover, welches einem Hochglanzmagazine ähnelt, machen dieses Buch zu was wundervollen.
Ich bin gespannt was die Autorin noch niederschreibt.
I was a little tentative to start this one because of all the hype combined with the multimodal approach to the story. Mixed media books can come across a little gimmicky and there has already been a standard of "different" getting praise as avant-garde even when it doesn't deserve the praise.
That is not the case with this book. Griffin, the artists, editors, and anyone else who had a hand in the creation of the book got it right. The mixed media enhances the story in a way pure text would never have managed to match and made what would otherwise have been a slightly boring story compelling.
I'm excited to see if this opens up some new directions in publishing going beyond text to express languages in all the ways we do everyday. But even if that's still a ways off, this is a good example of the way a story can evolve into something else.
That is not the case with this book. Griffin, the artists, editors, and anyone else who had a hand in the creation of the book got it right. The mixed media enhances the story in a way pure text would never have managed to match and made what would otherwise have been a slightly boring story compelling.
I'm excited to see if this opens up some new directions in publishing going beyond text to express languages in all the ways we do everyday. But even if that's still a ways off, this is a good example of the way a story can evolve into something else.
I love the mixed media format and will read anything I can get my hands on with that format. This book did a good job with the different interviews of characters and articles. The mixed media aspect was done really well. Addison could be annoying, but it made her a good character and made sense for the novel. My only issue was there weren't any characters for me to root for or that I found very interesting. The characters were all realistic but most were unlikable and uninteresting for me personally.
4.5, this is one of the most creative and refreshing books I've read all year. I loved the design of the book and the way it was written.
The book is very interesting and couldn't put it down also too slow paced for me and I enjoyed the artwork. I found the characters awful and then were too many POV which made it difficult to keep up with.
Mind-blowing! I couldn't put this book down and had to keep checking to make sure it was fiction. I loved the perspective and art entries sprinkled throughout the story. I felt the end dragged a smidge but otherwise drank every word up. I would gear this more for HS students.
Addison was the most promising artist of her generation. Her death, a fall from a bridge, is a crushing blow to everyone who knew her. The prologue explains that the author, Griffin, was intrigued by Addison and thus began interviewing a wide variety of friends, family, exes, teachers, family acquaintances, etc. to gain a better understanding of who Addison was and what led to her death. Did she slip and fall? Was it intentional on her behalf? Did someone want her dead? Accounts of Addison vary depending on who is being asked, though everyone seems to agree that she was a phenomenal artist with some serious mental health issues. The narrative of the book is entirely commentary from the people in Addison's life and begins more or less at the beginning with Addison's early elementary school years. Also included are examples of Addison's artwork and photos of Addison throughout her life.
We may never really know what caused Addison's fatal slip, but we do get a much better idea of who she was and what brought her up on that bridge. Addison comes across as the quintessential "manic-pixie-dream-girl". Everyone seems to want to know her, but she's frequently aloof. Her art is clearly the most important part of her life, so much so that people, even those she cares about, come in at a distant second. Those who don't like her come across as jealous of her magnetism and talent. She was clearly not the easiest person to be friends with; being her friend involved a lot of work.
I've recently come to the conclusion that I don't really get into books that have this many different narrators. It's incredibly difficult for me to warm up to any of the peripheral characters as we only know them through their relation to Addison and not on their own terms. While I felt like I learned a lot about Addison, I never felt like I knew her as a person, which was likely the intent. This is, however, an interesting experiment in form. There were a lot of themes at play here: the cult of celebrity, the connection between mental illness and creative genius, the effects of being precocious in a city like New York... As a thought experiment, the novel works, but I didn't really love it.
We may never really know what caused Addison's fatal slip, but we do get a much better idea of who she was and what brought her up on that bridge. Addison comes across as the quintessential "manic-pixie-dream-girl". Everyone seems to want to know her, but she's frequently aloof. Her art is clearly the most important part of her life, so much so that people, even those she cares about, come in at a distant second. Those who don't like her come across as jealous of her magnetism and talent. She was clearly not the easiest person to be friends with; being her friend involved a lot of work.
I've recently come to the conclusion that I don't really get into books that have this many different narrators. It's incredibly difficult for me to warm up to any of the peripheral characters as we only know them through their relation to Addison and not on their own terms. While I felt like I learned a lot about Addison, I never felt like I knew her as a person, which was likely the intent. This is, however, an interesting experiment in form. There were a lot of themes at play here: the cult of celebrity, the connection between mental illness and creative genius, the effects of being precocious in a city like New York... As a thought experiment, the novel works, but I didn't really love it.
I would say this was probably more of a 2.5 for me, and I wanted to like it more. I really did. I love the idea and the formatting and the amount of thought and planning and collaboration that went into the making of the book. However, I just couldn't bring myself to care about Addison or those who mourned her. I would still recommend it, because a lot of work and talent went into the making of this book, but for me, it just fell short of the mark.
Graded By: Mandy C.
Cover Story: Photo Negative
BFF Charm: Natalie Imbruglia
Swoonworthy Scale: 2
Talky Talk: Interview
Bonus Factors: Mixed Media
Relationship Status: Gone Too Soon
Read the full book report here.
Cover Story: Photo Negative
BFF Charm: Natalie Imbruglia
Swoonworthy Scale: 2
Talky Talk: Interview
Bonus Factors: Mixed Media
Relationship Status: Gone Too Soon
Read the full book report here.
This fictional biography felt so real I had to keep checking to make sure it wasn't. The characters and world felt so alive and deep and the multi media was stunning and added another level of authenticity to this haunting story.