If it wasn't for my Young Adult literature class, I would not be reading at all. There is simply no time. I'm taking 3 LS classes at USF and working part-time at a high school library. Between reference searches that take, probably, 20 hours every week, blogging, writing papers and reading 24 books for my lit class, I really have no spare time. My husband is feeling very abandoned. Maybe if I can get a little ahead things will be better. Actually, reading all the Y/A literature is a welcome escape. If I Stay is a bittersweet story of Mia who loses her entire family in a horrible car crash and wakes up in the hospital barely clinging to life. Like the Lovely Bones, Mia watches from above, listening to her friends, cousins and boyfriend as she lays comatose. But If I Stay is not nearly as good as Lovely Bones, and I found myself bored in the middle of the book. However, the end made up for it; I just wished the author had put all that energy into writing the entire book, not just the end. This is a good book for teenagers, it fits well into the problem novel genre and captures the teen voice.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Books I'm Reading Now
If it wasn't for my Young Adult literature class, I would not be reading at all. There is simply no time. I'm taking 3 LS classes at USF and working part-time at a high school library. Between reference searches that take, probably, 20 hours every week, blogging, writing papers and reading 24 books for my lit class, I really have no spare time. My husband is feeling very abandoned. Maybe if I can get a little ahead things will be better. Actually, reading all the Y/A literature is a welcome escape. If I Stay is a bittersweet story of Mia who loses her entire family in a horrible car crash and wakes up in the hospital barely clinging to life. Like the Lovely Bones, Mia watches from above, listening to her friends, cousins and boyfriend as she lays comatose. But If I Stay is not nearly as good as Lovely Bones, and I found myself bored in the middle of the book. However, the end made up for it; I just wished the author had put all that energy into writing the entire book, not just the end. This is a good book for teenagers, it fits well into the problem novel genre and captures the teen voice.
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