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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“She wonders if all of her will ever feel healed at the same time again.”
Annabelle takes off running one evening.
Running away from her pain, past, and guilt
all while running towards her future.
A Heart in a Body in the World is an immaculately written book. Even though it is in 3rd person you are able to really feel what Annabelle, the protagonist, is going through.
She decides to to run cross country to Washington DC after an incident with “The Taker”. (Whom every time his name is mentioned has an ominous presence about him) It follows her journey had she pushes herself (sometimes even to hard) to fight for her right as a women to feel same. Safe just being who she is.
Definitely a book that could be added to a high school book club. It brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence, and the struggle of putting yourself back together after a crisis. A must read!
Annabelle takes off running one evening.
Running away from her pain, past, and guilt
all while running towards her future.
A Heart in a Body in the World is an immaculately written book. Even though it is in 3rd person you are able to really feel what Annabelle, the protagonist, is going through.
She decides to to run cross country to Washington DC after an incident with “The Taker”. (Whom every time his name is mentioned has an ominous presence about him) It follows her journey had she pushes herself (sometimes even to hard) to fight for her right as a women to feel same. Safe just being who she is.
Definitely a book that could be added to a high school book club. It brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence, and the struggle of putting yourself back together after a crisis. A must read!
dark
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Excellent--highly recommended for anyone who has been the victim of trauma or anyone who feels helpless in the face of tragedy, any of us that feel like we need to DO something, make a statement with our actions. Annabelle Agnelli is just another statistic, an ordinary teenager until she suffers an unimaginable tragedy. She takes action by moving-specifically by running-and this is how she finds her voice. She is a champion, a reluctant activist, a paragon of bravery and courage. This book is an inspiration to us all-each of us that feels there is nothing we can do, that we are powerless.
love is corny, when you get right down to it. it has two left feet. it trips over itself, because it is so large that it's awkward. it's sort of silly, done right. after all, how do you convey something that huge? big signs made with colored markers and printer paper taped together. plastic leis bought from party for less.
this book is about a lot of things, gun violence, toxic masculinity, the ways that women are taught to always be amenable and kind no matter what - to put everyone's feelings above your own, to not listen to your gut instincts. at it's heart though, it's also a story about love and empathy. i was so touched by this, and cried for probably the last 50 pages. there were times where the story dragged but then again, it is about a cross country run by a very reluctant activist so that's probably intentional in many ways. highly recommended!
this book is about a lot of things, gun violence, toxic masculinity, the ways that women are taught to always be amenable and kind no matter what - to put everyone's feelings above your own, to not listen to your gut instincts. at it's heart though, it's also a story about love and empathy. i was so touched by this, and cried for probably the last 50 pages. there were times where the story dragged but then again, it is about a cross country run by a very reluctant activist so that's probably intentional in many ways. highly recommended!
This is less than four star but way more than three.
It is hard to talk about this story without giving spoilers. The biggest strength of the book is that Caletti writes dialogue adn characters so fiercely fucking human that the most inane of conversations made me tear up. But that's me, and how i work. It is the slightest of moments that hit me the hardest, not the grandiose speech at the end of the book that left me feeling a bit cold if im honest. No, it is someone raising their brow knowingly and the other person realizing a beat after them. It is simple words and frustrated attempts at caring and curses muttered in a foreign language. It is how, in grief, everything is a trigger, a reminder.
This YA reads like YA usually does, fast and page turning, simple language, some occasional forays into language experimentation through use of 2nd person and some metaphors that work and some that fall flat as hell, but in the end, it is the well-told insights and the simple day-to-day actions that felt real and true that make this close to a four star read. Take a day or two and go on the journey with the character. I think it's worth it.
TWs: To be as spoiler-free as I can with trigger warnings while still providing enough to help you judge , this is about grief and loss and violence, there is PTSD, guilt and shame. There is no sexual assault.
It is hard to talk about this story without giving spoilers. The biggest strength of the book is that Caletti writes dialogue adn characters so fiercely fucking human that the most inane of conversations made me tear up. But that's me, and how i work. It is the slightest of moments that hit me the hardest, not the grandiose speech at the end of the book that left me feeling a bit cold if im honest. No, it is someone raising their brow knowingly and the other person realizing a beat after them. It is simple words and frustrated attempts at caring and curses muttered in a foreign language. It is how, in grief, everything is a trigger, a reminder.
This YA reads like YA usually does, fast and page turning, simple language, some occasional forays into language experimentation through use of 2nd person and some metaphors that work and some that fall flat as hell, but in the end, it is the well-told insights and the simple day-to-day actions that felt real and true that make this close to a four star read. Take a day or two and go on the journey with the character. I think it's worth it.
TWs: To be as spoiler-free as I can with trigger warnings while still providing enough to help you judge , this is about grief and loss and violence, there is PTSD, guilt and shame. There is no sexual assault.
Spoiler
While this is not about a school shooting, this took me back to that day when I was sitting at home and watching the news about Columbine unfold in a jumbled, confused, horrifying mess. Watching video of the shooters in trenchcoats, thinking back to my own tortured high school days, how i probably knew a few people just like those guys. Poking at the terror and the monstrousness like it was a sore place in my mouth. And now, now, now that it is so common place that the columbine tragedy has dropped off the list of top 10 mass shootings. Here we are. I just don't know what to say.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes