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by Katherine Erskine
Philomel / Penguin 2010
Everyone's been raving about this book. It just got nominated from a National Book Award. It's been on the periphery of my radar so I figured it was time to pick it up. Twenty-five pages later it was time to put it down.
There is no worse feeling than to not like a popular book and feel, somehow, like you're defective for thinking it. Worse if
That's so true about when everyone but you thinks a book is amazing. Last year I just didn't get into The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. I feel like the only person who didn't think it was the cat's meow. It really can make you feel like there's something wrong with you as a reader.
"...when I'm reading, and there is something about the narrative that continually pulls me away from the story being told, I no longer enjoy the reading experience." Yes, I know what you mean. I had a similar experience with Sid Fleischman's new biography of Charlie Chaplin. The writing called so much attention to itself that I was distracted again and again.
I have noticed a trend here as well - both with narrators with Asperger's, etc and with overly smart child narrators. I'm not fond of either that much (with some exceptions) and a combination of the two is certainly problematic for me.<br /><br />As to your note about friends of kids who have problems - have you read INTO THE RAVINE by Richard Scrimger? Three boys on a raft going down a