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Showing posts with label love letters to the dead by ava dellaira. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love letters to the dead by ava dellaira. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pages: 336
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Contemporary
Synopsis: It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person.
Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven't forgiven?
It's not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Recap: October 2015!
I'm fairly certain I say this every month, but where did the time go? A month ago I was living in a different state and anxiously awaiting Halloween. Now it's November the first and I'm wondering how Halloween has already passed and typing this post up in a new house.
This Halloween my family and I went to an amusement park that was having a horror night. Although I couldn't dress up as I planned (as Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), since costumes weren't allowed, I still had a spooktacular time.
I rode my first ever real roller coaster, the kind that flips you upside down and drops without warning--and it was beyond awesome. Plus, candy. And pretzels. And all sorts of yummy deliciousness.
Rating: 3 Keys
The Shining was my first Stephen King novel, carefully selected to scare the living daylights out of me. Unfortunately, while King is a master at spinning unbelievable realistic and flawed characters and at analyzing the psychology of the human mind, he failed to frighten me.
Rating: 4 Keys
Victoria Schwab has never failed to give me a stellar reading experience, and The Near Witch is no exception. The story has the feel of an old fairy tale, paired with melodic writing, which results in an imperfect but enjoyable read.
Rating: 3.5 Keys
As you can imagine, Love Letters to the Dead is not exactly a cheerful book, but is rather heartfelt and genuine. It deals with tough issues in an extremely sensitive and respectful way, although it does not escape from faults--there is often foolish drama and an erratic writing style. Even so, I would recommend this book to anyone up for an emotional roller coaster ride.
Rating: 4 Keys
If you couldn't guess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I was over the moon excited to get my hands on the graphic novels, which pick up where the last season left off. While it isn't perfect, the first issue is so intrinsically Buffy that I couldn't help but fall in love with it.
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