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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
It was kind of ironic how everybody else got a conclusion except Nannette. But it it was it is.
Book turned out to be more meaningful than I initially thought it was going to be. Is a decent summer read.
I don’t truly know what I think about this book. It is excellently written, all of Matthew Quick’s are. However, the story’s unrealistic and melodramatic tone made it hard to suspend disbelief.
slow-paced
Rating: Or maybe 4.5 (because the novel felt like home to me!)
Has it ever happened to you? That you have come across a book that for all intents and purposes is not a literary masterpiece yet it captures your attention and your heart in an instant! Do books, like people, walk into our lives exactly at the time when we need them? Does the universe conspire to drop books in our laps to echo words we want to hear? Books - because the universe has run out of people to send to us?
Like The Bubblegum Reaper completely flips Nanette O'Hare's life around, EET has made me embrace my own 'weirdity'. Messed with me enough to spew out words like 'weirdity'. And yet, I'll repeat, 'It is no masterpiece.' For most of you, it will be like the quintessential Y/A novel starring a confused teenager coming to terms with her own self. But, if even for a moment, if you have felt like Nanette O'Hare - angry with the world, struggling to fit in, trying to be someone you are not, agreeing with everyone because you don't want to hurt people, refusing to accept your individuality, letting books and words affect you much more than you intend to, crying over something random - you can relate to this.
Need another reason to like the book? It is sprinkled with recommendations - books, poems, songs, authors, poets, singers. It is like finding unexpected gifts within a single gift.
Has it ever happened to you? That you have come across a book that for all intents and purposes is not a literary masterpiece yet it captures your attention and your heart in an instant! Do books, like people, walk into our lives exactly at the time when we need them? Does the universe conspire to drop books in our laps to echo words we want to hear? Books - because the universe has run out of people to send to us?
Like The Bubblegum Reaper completely flips Nanette O'Hare's life around, EET has made me embrace my own 'weirdity'. Messed with me enough to spew out words like 'weirdity'. And yet, I'll repeat, 'It is no masterpiece.' For most of you, it will be like the quintessential Y/A novel starring a confused teenager coming to terms with her own self. But, if even for a moment, if you have felt like Nanette O'Hare - angry with the world, struggling to fit in, trying to be someone you are not, agreeing with everyone because you don't want to hurt people, refusing to accept your individuality, letting books and words affect you much more than you intend to, crying over something random - you can relate to this.
Need another reason to like the book? It is sprinkled with recommendations - books, poems, songs, authors, poets, singers. It is like finding unexpected gifts within a single gift.
Too beautiful for words. 4 stars because it wasn’t the ending I’d hoped it to be.
A MUST READ FOR ALL!
A MUST READ FOR ALL!
Powerful.
Entendería totalmente por qué este libro no es para todos, ya que tiene una vibra diferente a otros contemporáneos. Simplemente me gusta pensar que los libros de Matthew Quick siempre hablan mas allá de lo que pretenden y que tienen mensajes absolutamente importantes. También pienso que es distinto para cada quien y eso es lo que me parece tan especial.
Hay algunas cosas del libro que pienso que para entenderlas tengo que leerlo un par de veces mas, porque no siento que las captara en su totalidad, si, es ese tipo de libro...
En conclusión de igual manera siempre disfruto leer lo que sea que escriba Matthew, siempre lo voy a considerar de mis autores favoritos.
Entendería totalmente por qué este libro no es para todos, ya que tiene una vibra diferente a otros contemporáneos. Simplemente me gusta pensar que los libros de Matthew Quick siempre hablan mas allá de lo que pretenden y que tienen mensajes absolutamente importantes. También pienso que es distinto para cada quien y eso es lo que me parece tan especial.
Hay algunas cosas del libro que pienso que para entenderlas tengo que leerlo un par de veces mas, porque no siento que las captara en su totalidad, si, es ese tipo de libro...
En conclusión de igual manera siempre disfruto leer lo que sea que escriba Matthew, siempre lo voy a considerar de mis autores favoritos.
I can't remember the last time I plowed through a book like that. Matthew, you've done it again!
I’m normally rather skeptical of books riddled with philosophy, and probably missed some, if not all, of the bigger meaning in this book. However, it gets 5 stars from me -for whatever that is worth to you- because of the beauty of Nannette’s progress. In most books I have read, even books with profound character development, it goes as follows: somewhat put together, fall apart, pick up the pieces, put them back together better than before. But Nannette falls apart and puts herself back together so many different times in this heart wrenching story, and I believe there is something to be said for the accuracy of falling apart many different times before one can put them self back together the right way.