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Cargando... Every Last Wordpor Tamara Ireland Stone
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Where do I even begin? The happiness I felt when Sam found a place to belong and the heartbreak I felt when I found out Caroline wasn't real. I could honest picture Poet's Corner and it makes me really wish it was a real place. I love the way Tamara Stone does an amazing job at describing OCD. For most if not all of the book I felt as though I was Sam. I highly recommend!! ( ) 4.5 Stars CW: Teenager living with OCD, This book felt really precious and quite important. The writing was so engaging and so authentic that I honestly felt like I knew Sam/Samantha. Her pain felt raw and real and I desperately wanted her to grow in confidence and find her voice. I truly hope that there is a 'Poet's Corner' out there for everyone who needs a place to be themselves. It's such a powerful thing to speak your truth. E iti noa ana nā te aroha A small thing given with love I feel like this book is THE stereotypical contemporary YA novel. It hits just about every trope for a high school romance/coming-of-age sort of story and they aren't done in a particularly interesting or emotionally compelling way either. It was hard for me to get invested in it when most of the plot and character beats are so played out already. As for the mental health angle, Sam's OCD seemed increasingly like an afterthought as the book progressed. There's no inherent problem with having a mentally ill protagonist without making the mental illness the main focus, but that's not really how it's handled here. Her OCD is talked up a lot. It's said to be severe and it seems in the book's description and in the opening that it will be a major issue for her. But despite this, it never really feels like it affects Sam significantly. It's easy to hide even from her hyperjudgmental mean-girl friends and the symptoms she does show aren't given much weight. Then at the end (view spoiler) With these two issues together it feels to me that the issue of mental illness was treated with kiddy gloves with a side of inspiration porn. Speaking of topics that were treated too lightly, bullying comes up as an issue in this book as well. The bullying itself is portrayed as really nasty, but luckily we get to gloss right over all that to get to the insta-love, falling for a hot emo boy with a guitar cliché. While bullying had a severe impact on the victim in the past, its effect is squarely in the past, and the romantic relationship between bully and bullied is in no way affected by it. That, along with the fact that Sam hadn't reflected on her behavior or felt any remorse for being a bully until she got the hots for a boy she'd bullied (conveniently now conventionally attractive and without the stutter that had got him bullied in the first place), left a bad taste in my mouth. Overall, the issue with this book is that it lacks emotional depth. I found it to be a cliché, but serviceable, popcorn book with some slightly uncomfortable undertones. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Si pudieras leer mi mente, no estarías sonriendo. Samantha McAllister parece una chica como cualquier otra: maquillaje perfectamente aplicado, cabello perfectamente peinado. Pero bajo esta superficie se esconde un secreto que sus amigas, las más populares del instituto, jamás deben conocer: Sam tiene desorden obsesivo compulsivo y una y otra vez la asaltan pensamientos oscuros y preocupaciones que no puede controlar. Su vida es una constante lucha interior por mantener unas apariencias que son vitales para ella. Es por eso por lo que cuando conoce a Caroline, una chica lista y con gran sentido del humor, Sam sabe que tiene que mantener oculta su relación tal como hace con sus visitas al psiquiatra. Y es Caroline quien introduce a Sam en el Rincón de los Poetas, una especie de sociedad secreta compuesta por estudiantes que no encajan del todo en el instituto. En ese entorno, poco a poco comienza a sentirse más ?normal? de lo que jamás se ha sentido? hasta que descubre una nueva razón para dudar de su sensatez y cuestionarse todo aquello que ha valorado hasta el momento. «Tamara Ireland Stone construye una novela brillante y conmovedora sobre cómo encontrar tu propia voz, sobre el poder de las palabras y sobre la amistad verdadera. No pude dejar de leerla hasta la última palabra.» Elizabeth Eulberg, autora de El club de los corazones solitarios «Romántica, impredecible y completamente disfrutable.» Arnold Shapiro, ganador de un Oscar y un Emmy por Scared Straight y If You Really Knew Me No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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