After hearing repetitively about this book and how amazing it is, I decided to give it a go. After struggling throughout this whole novel I feel like not only have I wasted my time, but also my money. The book seemed to have no climax so instead of there being a point of excitement, I found repet...
I borrowed this book from the library, thinking it was a good book, but honestly, I hated it. I've spent nearly 2 weeks trying to read it, and I just can't finish it. I feel like everything is so predictable. somebody needs help, things don't go right, they go depressed, and now they are recoveri...
This book has beautiful language and depth of meaning, but seems thin on plot and the tension of what next? Definitely for a mature teen reader, considering the entire book is from the perspective of a seventy-year-old man who is helping a young man discover who he is. Fishing, writing, and scu...
A review for Aidan Chambers' Now I Know and The Toll Bridge: Both stories are brilliant, as always with Aidan. I've enjoyed reading these back to back and feeling the different depths and routes Aidan took with each book. Now I Know was all about what belief means. This was an opportune time to r...
4 stelle e mezzo. "Siamo quello che fingiamo di essere,quindi dobbiamo stare attenti a quello che fingiamo di essere."-- Kurt Vonnegut.Questo è il primo scritto di Chambers che mi capita tra le mani e mi ricordo ancora della prima volta che l'ho sentito nominare. In molti ne hanno parlato con ca...
I read this book when I was a Freshman in high school. I can genuinely say it's one of the most intriguing, honest books that I've read. Cordelia Kenn propositions a boy that she's liked for some time, William Blacklin. Now, I think this is what really got me interested in the book; she is very ...
To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. He also befriends a girl named Tess, and soon h...
Mi è piaciuto di più Danza sulla mia tomba, ma anche questo molto, molto bello.Recensione anche sul mio blog:http://pleaseanotherbook.tumblr.com/p...“Cartoline dalla terra di nessuno” è il secondo romanzo di Aidan Chambers che mi capita per le mani e devo dire che mi sono innamorata del suo stile...
Whatever the cause, we didn’t harmonise but cut across each other. Will was grumpy and furioso, I was at first lackadaisical and pianissimo.‘Don’t you care?’ he whined.‘Of course I care,’ I said, smiling but feeling weary.‘Doesn’t it matter to you that the whole frigging thing went pear-shaped?’‘...
How to describe it? It happened to me, but not me. I was him, but not him. Haven’t you, Morgan, ever been through a day when you were not yourself? When it was not you who experienced your events but some other you? This day was like that for me. So how to describe it and make you believe how it ...