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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Listening to this was great...the ensemble cast was amazing! The story itself however was challenging. Alex is 11 years old ("though 13 in responsibility years") and is passionate about rockets. He spends a lot of time on rocket forums and even connects with people who are heading to a rocket launch contest. He buys his train fare, gets he and his dog on board and then through one seemingly random connection after another manages to get to the launch site. Adults help him throughout and wonder how his parents have let him travel alone this far. The story continues this way with one quest/adventure after another with more and more adults stepping in to help Alex. The premise is interesting and Alex is a great kid but the real story is Alex's insanely dysfunctional family and to wait until the end of the book to deal with such heavy issues was frustrating. I wonder if students will feel less annoyed than adults?
Somewhat hard to recommend but it definitely was a good listen. Grades 6 and up.
Somewhat hard to recommend but it definitely was a good listen. Grades 6 and up.
Love at first sight. It was an easy read and I enjoyed it a lot. Maybe because I have always been amazed by space and astronauts and universe in general that I find reading this worthwhile. Is there going to be a second book when he's old enough to get his spaceship fly? Because take my money, I want it.
I just didn't like this it was monotone and colourless. I hated the page after page of script like writing with the name of the person talking - really interrupted any cadence there might have been.
An incredibly written book with a heartfelt message, well rounded characters, and a space related road trip. I already want to reread it!
Wow! I loved this book so much!!
Alex Petroski is an 11-year-old, Filipino-American, possibly on the autism spectrum, boy who is obsessed with space. He is determined to send his rocket into space carrying his golden iPod onto which he’s been recording earth sounds and narrating his life. The book is his narration. As Alex sets out on a road trip to a rocket festival, we get to meet his dog, Carl Sagan; Zed and Steve, strangers who he befriends at the festival; Terra, who turns out to be his half-sister; Ronnie, his much older brother; and finally Alex’s mother who is mentally-disordered. Alex is struggling with big questions like, “where do I come from?”, “who’s out there?”, and “how can I be brave?”
This story has so much heart! Alex is so real and so lovable and so optimistic! I never wanted to story to end! This is a must read!
Alex Petroski is an 11-year-old, Filipino-American, possibly on the autism spectrum, boy who is obsessed with space. He is determined to send his rocket into space carrying his golden iPod onto which he’s been recording earth sounds and narrating his life. The book is his narration. As Alex sets out on a road trip to a rocket festival, we get to meet his dog, Carl Sagan; Zed and Steve, strangers who he befriends at the festival; Terra, who turns out to be his half-sister; Ronnie, his much older brother; and finally Alex’s mother who is mentally-disordered. Alex is struggling with big questions like, “where do I come from?”, “who’s out there?”, and “how can I be brave?”
This story has so much heart! Alex is so real and so lovable and so optimistic! I never wanted to story to end! This is a must read!
I cried when this book was over.
I don't need a sequel. Alex's story finished where it needed to.
But I loved every second of this book. Jack Cheng's writing is VERY realistic for a 12 year old. I had to go back and verify that he WASN'T a 12 year old when he wrote this book!
Maybe he's Zed, and this is actually that thing Zed did. It dutifully captured the beauty and honesty and wonder of a child beginning to learn more about the real world and his place in it.
The revelations Alex had on the couch...I had to pause for a moment to breathe in that piece of writing.
And the audiobook!!!???!!! Kivlighan de Montebello is an absolute STAR. Cheng's narrative format is totally meant to be an audiobook, but the production team who made it happen....if you listen to one audiobok in your whole life, it has to be this one.
I don't need a sequel. Alex's story finished where it needed to.
But I loved every second of this book. Jack Cheng's writing is VERY realistic for a 12 year old. I had to go back and verify that he WASN'T a 12 year old when he wrote this book!
Maybe he's Zed, and this is actually that thing Zed did. It dutifully captured the beauty and honesty and wonder of a child beginning to learn more about the real world and his place in it.
The revelations Alex had on the couch...I had to pause for a moment to breathe in that piece of writing.
And the audiobook!!!???!!! Kivlighan de Montebello is an absolute STAR. Cheng's narrative format is totally meant to be an audiobook, but the production team who made it happen....if you listen to one audiobok in your whole life, it has to be this one.
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was an interesting little book. The style was really easy to read and I enjoyed what I read but it's a middle grade book and I think some of the themes in this weren't exactly suitable for children.
All Alex wants to do is send his iPod into space so that aliens can learn about life on Earth. He goes to a space festival over a weekend with his dog but suddenly things start to change which stops him from returning home and suddenly he's on an adventure that he never expected to be going on.
Continue my review here: https://kirstyreadsblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/see-you-in-the-cosmos-by-jack-cheng
All Alex wants to do is send his iPod into space so that aliens can learn about life on Earth. He goes to a space festival over a weekend with his dog but suddenly things start to change which stops him from returning home and suddenly he's on an adventure that he never expected to be going on.
Continue my review here: https://kirstyreadsblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/see-you-in-the-cosmos-by-jack-cheng
I didn't really like this one. I liked the format it was written in because it was a fairly short read, but other than that I didn't really like this one. I struggled to like the characters, and despite the final few chapters finally explaining why Alex's mother is the way she is the book was just not believable... He is 11 and so many adults just overlook him travelling alone it's ridiculous, this would never fly in real life.
This book made me cry but it was one of the cutest and sweetest books I've ever read. Would recommend and would read again!!!