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MSBA Nominee 2009-2010
I'm not sure there is going to be a way for me to review this book. I know my reviews tend to skew towards personal entries and my feelings, but I don't think there will be any way for me to do that. This book reminds me of my strong anti-war feelings during polisci my senior year of high school, which my teacher laughed at, and how I feel like I should be laughing now, but I can't because I'm too sad. And how in April of 2003 Bush declared our Mission Accomplished. Six years later, we're still there, and I'm pretty sure the mission was not accomplished. And I'm sitting here listening to this story about people my age (at the time) over there, and what they are thinking and what information they were given, and if it is indeed close to what they actually received, then I feel like we were doomed from the start. Maybe I'll be able to write more effectively later.
It's now later, and I don't think I can write any more effectively about this book.
I'm not sure there is going to be a way for me to review this book. I know my reviews tend to skew towards personal entries and my feelings, but I don't think there will be any way for me to do that. This book reminds me of my strong anti-war feelings during polisci my senior year of high school, which my teacher laughed at, and how I feel like I should be laughing now, but I can't because I'm too sad. And how in April of 2003 Bush declared our Mission Accomplished. Six years later, we're still there, and I'm pretty sure the mission was not accomplished. And I'm sitting here listening to this story about people my age (at the time) over there, and what they are thinking and what information they were given, and if it is indeed close to what they actually received, then I feel like we were doomed from the start. Maybe I'll be able to write more effectively later.
It's now later, and I don't think I can write any more effectively about this book.
National Book Award Nominee 2009
This was a really good book. I still don't agree with the decision to include it in the young adult category, because it was published and marketed as an adult book, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it was a powerful story and a book that I didn't want to put down.
This was a really good book. I still don't agree with the decision to include it in the young adult category, because it was published and marketed as an adult book, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it was a powerful story and a book that I didn't want to put down.
National Book Award Nominee 2009 (and my favorite so far)
This book is more the biography of a marriage than a biography of either Charles and Emma Darwin, although it does give a brief history of their lives prior to their marriage. I think what I liked best about this book was that it showed how someone with deep religious faith and someone who wasn't even sure there was a God could make a marriage work and not be at each other's throats all the time. An interesting look at some interesting people.
This book is more the biography of a marriage than a biography of either Charles and Emma Darwin, although it does give a brief history of their lives prior to their marriage. I think what I liked best about this book was that it showed how someone with deep religious faith and someone who wasn't even sure there was a God could make a marriage work and not be at each other's throats all the time. An interesting look at some interesting people.
Maybe this book would have had more impact if I hadn't read it after [b:Sunrise Over Fallujah|2205226|Sunrise Over Fallujah|Walter Dean Myers|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255741419s/2205226.jpg|2210990], [b:The Ask and the Answer|6043849|The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)|Patrick Ness|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233015899s/6043849.jpg|6219422], and [b:Stitches A Memoir|6407014|Stitches A Memoir|David Small|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255727610s/6407014.jpg|6595917]. For a book about cancer, I was oddly unaffected by it. It could also be the note format, which normally I like but in this situation it was not a good choice.
National Book Award Nominee 2009
This book was okay. I found it hard to relate to all three girls. I'm surprised it was nominated for this award.
This book was okay. I found it hard to relate to all three girls. I'm surprised it was nominated for this award.
