Teen Reviews August 19, 2011
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Azayah reviewed The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
This novel begins with a teenage girl who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her father. She has pretty much put her life on hold, and is living afraid. This all changes though, when she takes a chance, and accepts a catering job for Wish. There she meets its enthusiastic and friendly crew, and starts to break out of her shell. Meanwhile, her sister is renovating the old beach house, bringing back bittersweet memories of her father. She then realizes that this has turned out to be far from the summer she expected, and that she can either chose to accept these changes, or go back to the old life she was living.
I feel that this was really a great read. One of the reasons being, that you really developed an emotional attachment to the main character, Macy. The storyline was also quite interesting as were all the characters. I would highly recommend the novel for those reasons and many more.
Dawn reviewed Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I must say that the first few pages of this book were all over the place to me and at first, didn't make too much sense. Once I started reading though, I could not put the book down; I was always curious to find out more about not only the story line, but also about the main character Pi. This book was everything I wanted from a story: entertainment, inspiration and perspective. It goes beyond telling the reader a story, but it teaches them about life and forces them to step back to look at their own. It's one of those books that are completely satisfying through to the end, and I found that reading it was definitely time well spent. The situation in which Pi finds himself is difficult to relate to, but I definitely found myself comparing myself to him and his thoughts and decisions; this shows how universal our feelings and thoughts can be. It is definitely a captivating book and a definite must read!
10 thoughts on “Teen Reviews August 19, 2011”
Wow I want to read Life of Pi as well. I have read many books like it, like when you start reading a book and it is kind of boring but then it becomes interesting.And if it is a must read, then I’ll give it a try!
The Truth About Forever sounds very intriguing! I think that reasons given for reading the book are fair enough and well… I just love reading I guess. So, why not try it?
When I first looked at the title Life of Pi, I thought it had something to do with the pi in math. It sounds like a very elegant read.
The Truth about forever sounds AMAZING! A little of depression, happiness and choices! 😛
nice review guys 🙂
I LOVE The Truth About Forever, it’s one oof my favorites!! Also Life of Pi sounds intersting, i think i’ll try reading it.
I read both these books this summer! LOVED THEM 🙂
I’m rerading the life of pi. BTW that was a very good book review, very insightful!
I love Yann Martel! His book “Beatrice and Virgil” is also an incredible read.
Life of Pi is not an exciting book
i had to read it for grade 10 english
it was soo confusing!
the beginning is a bit dull
but it gets better later on
but it keeps jumping from reality to animals
its confusing .
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