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I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
3.0
This book was okay but the writing style hurt my soul. Too much figurative nonsense. I'm not sure if I'm just stupid, but sometimes I couldn't tell what was actually happening and what was a literary device...
I liked the characters, but after a while their lack of communication was getting irritating. There were so many characters but so little conversation.
However, I did enjoy the book, thus three stars.
I liked the characters, but after a while their lack of communication was getting irritating. There were so many characters but so little conversation.
However, I did enjoy the book, thus three stars.
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer
2.0
Ok but not great? My favourite character was the gerbil.
Runner by Robert Newton
5.0
This one has 5 stars because it's nostalgic and shaped my personality a lot. Thanks year 7 english class.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
5.0
The plot is actually really nice, and a good feel of what growing up and learning about yourself is like. Also going through that stage where you start to learn about your parents and their lives, rather than seeing them as parents and nothing more. I felt the family relationships in this book were the best done part.
What pissed me off to no end was reading the dialogue, and reading them saying each others names over and over, in the same sentence even. No one talks like that, it's formal and weird as hell. Sounds like that B99 scene where Rosa's in prison and Holt is like 'you're a person Rosa, you are Rosa, Rosa'
I reread recently and I think I enjoyed it more this time around.
Also I realised that I've been quoting certain parts unknowingly, I guess some lines stuck.
What pissed me off to no end was reading the dialogue, and reading them saying each others names over and over, in the same sentence even. No one talks like that, it's formal and weird as hell. Sounds like that B99 scene where Rosa's in prison and Holt is like 'you're a person Rosa, you are Rosa, Rosa'
I reread recently and I think I enjoyed it more this time around.
Also I realised that I've been quoting certain parts unknowingly, I guess some lines stuck.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
4.0
I really liked this book.
I liked the main character, her thought process and her understanding. Reading this I experienced one of the strongest connections I've had with a character. The scene at the lighthouse (which I consider the turning point) hit really close to home. The moment when she steps out of the lighthouse after discovering and reading the journals and sees the psychologist dying, realising the psychologist has been there the whole time (for once, waiting for her, full well believing that the journals would occupy her longer than the psychologist could stay alive). Delving deep into a crazed curiosity, then returning to reality and finding out that parallel to your task, the people around you would not wait, and there was no more time for them is a feeling I've experienced and a theme that constantly appears in my dreams.
I liked how in the end, all of her skill, technique and intellect couldn't help her pursue her life's interest, and she was forced to fall back and rethink everything.
Additionally, I like how despite the biologists constant reasoning and scientific thinking, she really doesn't come off as an expert or a professional. I like to believe that she's actually a crappy biologist with skewed opinions of herself.
I liked the main character, her thought process and her understanding. Reading this I experienced one of the strongest connections I've had with a character. The scene at the lighthouse (which I consider the turning point) hit really close to home. The moment when she steps out of the lighthouse after discovering and reading the journals and sees the psychologist dying, realising the psychologist has been there the whole time (for once, waiting for her, full well believing that the journals would occupy her longer than the psychologist could stay alive). Delving deep into a crazed curiosity, then returning to reality and finding out that parallel to your task, the people around you would not wait, and there was no more time for them is a feeling I've experienced and a theme that constantly appears in my dreams.
I liked how in the end, all of her skill, technique and intellect couldn't help her pursue her life's interest, and she was forced to fall back and rethink everything.
Additionally, I like how despite the biologists constant reasoning and scientific thinking, she really doesn't come off as an expert or a professional. I like to believe that she's actually a crappy biologist with skewed opinions of herself.