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Cargando... The Impossible Knife of Memory (edición 2014)por Laurie Halse Anderson (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 4.5 out of 5. Amazing underlying current of anxiety and stress through the whole book. Laurie Halse Anderson remembers EXACTLY what it's like to be a teen, and doesn't sugarcoat it, or write it through rose colored glasses. Even the side characters have lives you care about, and are written in such a way they don't exist solely to tell the protagonist's story. One of the few books where I cried (a little!) at the end. The only reason I took off a .5 was because I wanted to see a little more of Hayley and her father's relationship, but the good parts. I know the whole point was that he's suffering severe PTSD, but I never really had a sense of warmth between them. Of something she was looking back on as now being lost. There was always going to be a wall up, especially on the father's end, but I felt it was important to have an idea of what was on the other side of that wall. Specifically, the positives that Hayley felt once but no longer. I don't know if that makes sense... Laurie Halse Anderson is the standard I hold all YA writing to. Absolutely recommend. I really wanted to like this book, but in the end I really was not all that in love with it. As someone with a military background, my favorite character and portrayal really was Captain Andy -- and my deepest problem about the book is that while it talks a lot about Andy having PTSD it never addresses or answers the fact his daughter has raging case of it herself, too. I really, really loved the second to last chapter of this book. I felt like the whole novel had worked up to that chapter, and then that chapter came out tight, insane, and emotional. Every single way it should have. But then the next chapter happened. Wherein everything was neatened up with a magical duster, even if it implied it wasn't, it still was. And it was talked about from away and everything that was The Real Work was glossed over, the whole thing became shortcutting with "telling instead of showing," and I hated the easy cheat of all of that part so much that I had to dock the whole book a star. I’ve read many of Anderson’s books and loved them all, but this one missed the mark. The book follows Halley, a young, disenfranchised, rebellious teenager. She hates school, hates her teachers, and hates life in general. She struggles in all of her classes, especially calculus (can’t blame her there), talks back to teachers, and spends as much time in detention as she does in class. Her home life is a wreck as well. She lives with her father after his girlfriend, whom she also hates, left him years ago, but she keeps making reappearances in their lives. She has an off and on boyfriend, with whom she has a love/hate relationship. Her father is a mess. He drinks, cannot hold a job, and has bad memories and nightmares of his time in the service. The book moves slowly with little to nothing new happening, with page after page of her dad messing up everyone’s life and Halley screwing up her school life. None of the characters were likeable or able to be related to by this reader. As a result, the book was rather boring and took me twice as long to finish it as it should have, as I hated picking it back up. There were a few memorable lines in the book when Finn says, “Calculus is a joke that got out of hand,” and when Halley said, “You need a license to drive a car and to go fishing, but you don’t need a license to start a family. A perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by their parents.” Halley described her situation in life perfectly. A few nice lines like that earned the book a couple of starts. There was one jarring plot hole I noticed. On page 153 Halley and Finn are in the library and they realize the library closes in 5 minutes, so they leave the library and go to the quarry to hang out a while. After they leave the quarry, they went back to the library, which closed hours earlier (page 164). This should have been caught by an editor. The ending was unsatisfying. It appeared as she neared 400 pages of the same thing over and over, she realized she had to end the book, so in just a few pages she tied it up and everybody lived happily ever after. Terrible ending. Anderson, you are better than this. Overall, not a terrible book, but not one of Anderson’s best. It appeared she mailed this one in. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Durante los cinco ultimos aos, Hayley Kincaid y su padre Andy han tenido una vida errante, sin una residencia estable; el ha hecho intentos por escapar de los demonios que le han estado torturando desde que volvio de la guerra de Irak. Ahora que han vuelto a la ciudad en la que el crecio, Hayley por fin podra dedicarse a sus estudios. Y quiza vez, por primera vez, podra tener una vida normal, dejando de lado sus propios recuerdos llenos de dolor, tal vez incluso pueda tener una relacion con Finn, un atractivo chico que parece sentir algo por ella pero que tambien esconde sus propios secretos."--Back cover.
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Back in the town where he grew up, Hayley can attend school and maybe have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories. She might be able to have a relationship with Finn, who is hiding secrets of his own.-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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