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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
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Confronting and important.
Lyrical, heart-breaking writing.
Story within a story.
Can we offer these people any more hope? They need it. We need to believe we can provide it.
I am rapidly losing mine.
Lyrical, heart-breaking writing.
Story within a story.
Can we offer these people any more hope? They need it. We need to believe we can provide it.
I am rapidly losing mine.
Heartbreakingly raw
This is a beautiful, beautiful story full of loss, hurt and fear. I have sobbed throughout but I didn’t want to put this down. It is an incredibly important story, please read it.
This is a beautiful, beautiful story full of loss, hurt and fear. I have sobbed throughout but I didn’t want to put this down. It is an incredibly important story, please read it.
Beautifully written, painful, hopeful, and important. Subhi and his stories will stay with me for quite a while.
Jimmie's part in the book seems unnecessary.
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2018/comments_03/bone_sparrow.html
http://pussreboots.com/blog/2018/comments_03/bone_sparrow.html
This is a book that needed to be written. It has the feeling of a modern day Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; it focuses on the refugee problem with a heart-breaking story line. Just like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I adored it.
It is an eye-opening, tear-jerking experience of a book; one which I'm glad I was told to read. I think I have fallen in love with this story and the way that Zana Fraillon managed to spin me into to her web of a book. Trust me, once you start reading this you won't be able to stop.
It is an eye-opening, tear-jerking experience of a book; one which I'm glad I was told to read. I think I have fallen in love with this story and the way that Zana Fraillon managed to spin me into to her web of a book. Trust me, once you start reading this you won't be able to stop.
"There are some people in this world who can see all the hidden bits and pieces of the universe."
This story is beautiful, eye opening, horrifically tragic and yet filled right up with hope.
The Bone Sparrow is not the first book I have read about refugees, but it is definitely much more impacting and candid than any I've read before.
Since this book is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal this year, I went into this book with high expectations. Usually, that means I'm going to be horribly disappointed. Definitely not the case with this book - it was so much more than I could have imagined.
Subhi's voice is loud and clear throughout this book, as if he is speaking directly to you. You're seeing things that no person should ever have to deal with - and you're being shown them by a child.
This book is important, and needed. The fearless, truthful storytelling shows the way of the world today - and it's shocking. We are clearly shown the way that people, although being good and kind and nice people, would rather turn away than deal with a problem, or try to help someone. This book has made me think very very hard about exactly what I am doing with myself, and has made me realise how much I take for granted, every single day. I urge everyone and anyone to read this book - it is important.
This story is beautiful, eye opening, horrifically tragic and yet filled right up with hope.
The Bone Sparrow is not the first book I have read about refugees, but it is definitely much more impacting and candid than any I've read before.
Since this book is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal this year, I went into this book with high expectations. Usually, that means I'm going to be horribly disappointed. Definitely not the case with this book - it was so much more than I could have imagined.
Subhi's voice is loud and clear throughout this book, as if he is speaking directly to you. You're seeing things that no person should ever have to deal with - and you're being shown them by a child.
This book is important, and needed. The fearless, truthful storytelling shows the way of the world today - and it's shocking. We are clearly shown the way that people, although being good and kind and nice people, would rather turn away than deal with a problem, or try to help someone. This book has made me think very very hard about exactly what I am doing with myself, and has made me realise how much I take for granted, every single day. I urge everyone and anyone to read this book - it is important.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This book adresses an extremely important and heartbreaking issue, and does it through the eyes of children, one of whom has never known life outside a detention centre. The juxtaposition of a child's hopeful, innocent imagination with their situation and the desperation of the adults around them makes the story all the more painful to read. It is a very good book.
I did not expect this book to affect me in the way it did. It is so honest, and this is the sort of the book the world needs, to open our eyes and realise that stuff like this still goes on. The conditions in which Subhi lives is heartbreaking, especially as an adult, to read. I say that, because Subhi is a young boy and does not realise just the extent of his treatment until over halfway. The book moved me in a way I cannot even begin to explain. Please read this. Please.