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pikusonali 's review for:
Every Exquisite Thing
by Matthew Quick
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.