Saturday, January 06, 2007
Book Review - The View from Saturday - YA Fiction
3 Best lines in The View from Saturday:
1 - “They were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap and without character.” (p.10)
2 - “As authentic as a Xerox copy.” (p.134)
3 - “I am a passenger on the Space Ship Earth” (P. 70)
There was so much I enjoyed about this book, the different plots converging, grandpa’s perspective of people with extra weight as being “plump as a good peach, Nadia’s uncomfortable adjustment to being the daughter of not only newly divorced parents but geographically separated as well, the turtle walks, the parallel storms between nature and Nadia and her father, Ethan’s attempt to maintain solitude reversing into a quadrant of friendships, Ethan labeled as Lucas’ younger brother and the expectations held by heartless teachers, Noah’s assorted “facts” he relies upon to maintain balance, Ethan wrestling with whether he gained something at Sillington House or lost something…perhaps when we lose, we win!…, Julian consistently misinterpreted by Mrs. Olinski until she, the teacher, learns by knowing, the accent of Julian that could make him appear smart even if he truly wasn’t, and the sea turtle rescue that brought everyone involved down to the wet, and filthy physical state placing all involved on an equal footing and closer to Nature and her capricious elements that always poetically level the grind iron.
Sillington house and the Mad Hatter teatimes are the safe places that all psychologists try to create. Such an environment permits people to interact without constraints. It is the only exercise this society does not extol...compassion.
Critique? Free-ranging hens….they are not what they are labeled and should not be glorified.
The basket Mr. Singh uses to grocery shop was not an ecological “thing to do,” but a customary thing to do…But who cares? The book was extraordinary!
1 - “They were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap and without character.” (p.10)
2 - “As authentic as a Xerox copy.” (p.134)
3 - “I am a passenger on the Space Ship Earth” (P. 70)
There was so much I enjoyed about this book, the different plots converging, grandpa’s perspective of people with extra weight as being “plump as a good peach, Nadia’s uncomfortable adjustment to being the daughter of not only newly divorced parents but geographically separated as well, the turtle walks, the parallel storms between nature and Nadia and her father, Ethan’s attempt to maintain solitude reversing into a quadrant of friendships, Ethan labeled as Lucas’ younger brother and the expectations held by heartless teachers, Noah’s assorted “facts” he relies upon to maintain balance, Ethan wrestling with whether he gained something at Sillington House or lost something…perhaps when we lose, we win!…, Julian consistently misinterpreted by Mrs. Olinski until she, the teacher, learns by knowing, the accent of Julian that could make him appear smart even if he truly wasn’t, and the sea turtle rescue that brought everyone involved down to the wet, and filthy physical state placing all involved on an equal footing and closer to Nature and her capricious elements that always poetically level the grind iron.
Sillington house and the Mad Hatter teatimes are the safe places that all psychologists try to create. Such an environment permits people to interact without constraints. It is the only exercise this society does not extol...compassion.
Critique? Free-ranging hens….they are not what they are labeled and should not be glorified.
The basket Mr. Singh uses to grocery shop was not an ecological “thing to do,” but a customary thing to do…But who cares? The book was extraordinary!
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