This book weaves through a maze of becoming of age, meth and alcohol addiction, physical and sexual abuse, "broken" families/friendships, socio-economic divides, and close-minded/ignorant thought processes and judgments made by people about others. This is quite the book that hooked me from the beginning and had me hanging on to the very end. I felt a connection to this book in the very small but significant ways, i.e. the little crawl space description and coming from a not so well-off family (growing up and working on a dairy farm) and fearing that others knew I was not well off ect. I feel like there is so much "variety" that is covered in this book that students will find something they can connect with.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Shine- Lauren Myracle
This book weaves through a maze of becoming of age, meth and alcohol addiction, physical and sexual abuse, "broken" families/friendships, socio-economic divides, and close-minded/ignorant thought processes and judgments made by people about others. This is quite the book that hooked me from the beginning and had me hanging on to the very end. I felt a connection to this book in the very small but significant ways, i.e. the little crawl space description and coming from a not so well-off family (growing up and working on a dairy farm) and fearing that others knew I was not well off ect. I feel like there is so much "variety" that is covered in this book that students will find something they can connect with.
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I am about 150 pages into this text so far, and I totally love it. The beginning was gripping, but super disturbing so I had to kind of motivate myself to tackle such an emotional book, but I don't think it has been as emotionally overwhelming as the first few pages made it out to be, which is good. So far, my burning question is exactly what happened between Tommy and Cat in her living room. Myracle is pretty vague about it at this point in the book, and that is kind of surprising to me because she is very explicit about other things (ie. the attack on Patrick and the operations of cooking meth). I'm hoping we as readers gain more clarity about the instance by the end of the novel.
ReplyDeleteThe incident in the living room will be revealed! I felt sickened, angry, and so sad for Cat when I finally found out the details. One of the things that surprised me about this book was how much tragedy and unpleasantness Myracle manages to fit in there. It's not just about the hate crime - like Crista said, there's "variety" in the content.
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