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3.11 AVERAGE
3.11 AVERAGE
Not a fan of short, abrupt sentences.
The first pages were a drag - I didn't know if it would get any better so I just went on, cringing at Nine's vocabulary. The way she talks, the way she thinks, it's all new to me, outside my comfort zone.
Until Mr. Mann showed up and it was smooth sailing from there. He really does pull you in, something about him, inside him that makes you fall, hook line and sinker. This 'older guy' who gives you all the attention, picks you out in the sea of high school stereotypes. But it's more than that, I think.
Nine is not one of my favorite characters but I felt for her. I know the feeling when somebody takes you up and you feel like you can fly, really do anything because you're blinded by the bright light of happiness, that you don't see the horizon dropping and suddenly you're free falling. And you hang on what little is left and you try to understand what or why or where exactly it went wrong. You won't stop until you get any semblance of answer, running wild with blind anger.
Schuyler, Nine's dorky bestfriend, for me, he shone. Not like the head-splitting bright shine, the one that softly lights up. He's not the alpha male type. He doesn't drive. He's the opposite of Mr. Mann. Quiet but strong.
It was a good read though not one you'd fish out your bag on a moving van for other morning commuters to see. It's the 'chaser' between the inebriating liquor, the fleeting moment between the pleasing burning on your throat whenever you knock back a glass of brandy.
Highlights:
What if I've let too much of myself out? ... Maybe he wants someone else. Someone more, someone less, someone braver, stronger, weaker, wilder, crazy, pretty, sane -
What if his whole life he has pretended to be someone else, whoever he needed to be? Maybe it's all a kind of survival mechanism. And the by-product of his survival is this: he makes you fall for him - that's how he survives it. How he survives life, love, anything. Maybe he's like that all the time..
Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?
The first pages were a drag - I didn't know if it would get any better so I just went on, cringing at Nine's vocabulary. The way she talks, the way she thinks, it's all new to me, outside my comfort zone.
Until Mr. Mann showed up and it was smooth sailing from there. He really does pull you in, something about him, inside him that makes you fall, hook line and sinker. This 'older guy' who gives you all the attention, picks you out in the sea of high school stereotypes. But it's more than that, I think.
Nine is not one of my favorite characters but I felt for her. I know the feeling when somebody takes you up and you feel like you can fly, really do anything because you're blinded by the bright light of happiness, that you don't see the horizon dropping and suddenly you're free falling. And you hang on what little is left and you try to understand what or why or where exactly it went wrong. You won't stop until you get any semblance of answer, running wild with blind anger.
Schuyler, Nine's dorky bestfriend, for me, he shone. Not like the head-splitting bright shine, the one that softly lights up. He's not the alpha male type. He doesn't drive. He's the opposite of Mr. Mann. Quiet but strong.
It was a good read though not one you'd fish out your bag on a moving van for other morning commuters to see. It's the 'chaser' between the inebriating liquor, the fleeting moment between the pleasing burning on your throat whenever you knock back a glass of brandy.
Highlights:
What if I've let too much of myself out? ... Maybe he wants someone else. Someone more, someone less, someone braver, stronger, weaker, wilder, crazy, pretty, sane -
What if his whole life he has pretended to be someone else, whoever he needed to be? Maybe it's all a kind of survival mechanism. And the by-product of his survival is this: he makes you fall for him - that's how he survives it. How he survives life, love, anything. Maybe he's like that all the time..
Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?
I read this book for the mere fact that every one of my friends who had read this book had to comment on how Nelson's style of writing is practically identical to mine. I sat here debating silently on whether to give this book a 4 star or a 3 star. It was hard for me to get through, but the last 50 pages I couldn't set it down. The twists and turns of this book forced me to give it a 4 star though.
I read this many years ago and didn't remember anything about it so I figured it was time to give it another read. Personally, I did not enjoy this book at all. Maybe years ago I would have been enticed by the teacher/student trope, but I just found it off-putting this time through. Carolina proclaiming her love in no time showed her immaturity and youngness and it didn't seem Richard even flinched at that - which was a major problem.
Beyond the dynamic of the book, I couldn't relate or understand to Carolina's feelings after Richard calls it off - stalking him, feeling depressed, putting herself and others in risky situations - I just felt extremely annoyed with her.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book and don't think I'll be holding onto it much longer.
Beyond the dynamic of the book, I couldn't relate or understand to Carolina's feelings after Richard calls it off - stalking him, feeling depressed, putting herself and others in risky situations - I just felt extremely annoyed with her.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book and don't think I'll be holding onto it much longer.
Okay. I’m going to give credit where it’s due: it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Colour me surprised!
Review to come. I have a lot of thoughts.
Review to come. I have a lot of thoughts.
i loved this book. i recommend it to anyone! its super good. a lot of big words though. and i could really connect with the main character. i told my school librarian about this book and she bought it for the school. she said it was really good! and she knows good books! shes the one who got me into the hunger games. :)
different. obsessive and fast
I really dig the neato lil tidbits. I learned new science-y things along the way.
I really dig the neato lil tidbits. I learned new science-y things along the way.
I loved this book!It really takes you back to the days of your first breakup; the gut-wrenching, end-of-the-world pain that you experienced with your first love.
You can forget, though, that this is a teacher and student romance and not just a teenage boyfriend/girlfriend.
You can forget, though, that this is a teacher and student romance and not just a teenage boyfriend/girlfriend.
So I ran out of books to read (unforgivable, right?) before my next library haul and this book was just sitting by my sister's bed and I though "well, why not?" And this folks is why you don't pick up books arbitrarily.
To begin with, I feel confident in assuming that we've all had that one teacher crush at some point in our lives, yet there is a very obvious line that you DO NOT cross and Nine went and leaped over that line with nary a thought.
However, I don't think it was the student-teacher relationship that annoyed me the most in this book (else I don't think I would have made it past the jacket cover), I think it was the fact that Nine was risking her future, her dreams, her GOALS for some idiot man stuck teaching High School. Okay, I get that he's charismatic and easy to talk to and bloody amazingly gorgeous but if I were offered a scholarship like that, neither hell nor high water could prevent me from taking it. Especially not because of a lame reason like "forgetting to turn in the paperwork"
And I know that the point of the book was that she loved so much and with her whole being that she got slightly off-hinge when he left but really, she got too off-hinged. And then it goes back to failing at school and worrying her parents and alienating her best friend and putting her life in danger and getting a stain on her permanent record and all kinds of crazy things for a guy that just waltzed in, took your virginity and left!
The fact that I keep going on about records and maintaining academics and everything alerts me to the fact that theoretically I'm supposed to be able to relate to Nine, and pre-Mr.Mann I actually do. I just think that hey, someone so smart should have been able to avoid that nonsense. Also, If I were Schuyler (her best friend) nothing could've stopped me from shouting "I told you so!" in her face-even though that would probably make me not a very good best friend.
Now here's a book that I really had high—and I mean exiting the atmosphere high—expectations for. I've waited a long couple of years to get my hands on this novel because I'd heard such great thing about it but I was completely, unbearably disappointed when I finally feasted my eyes upon the content of the pages between its covers. I've read so many disappointing books lately that things seem hopeless. But Teach Me was a truly low blow. I felt that with Nine, while somewhat realistic, R.A. Nelson tried entirely too hard to be witty and clever and complex. It made for irritating and tedious reading. I'll wrap this review up by saying that I wished I'd never coveted this book as much as I did because now all I want is the time it took to read it back.
emotional
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes