Posts by Nune

I am abandoning the book 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma. I read until page 67, and then stopped reading for many reasons. The author's writing style is very unclear, and you have to read a sentence over and over again to understand what the author is trying to say. There was a couple of times where I found myself, reading the same over and over again because everything was so confusing. Also, the author tells the story in a very dramatic way, she emphasizes the same point again and again.

"For three years he'd been scrabbling at the sides of that hole - sometimes coming oh-so-close to getting out - but he always fell back in. It was like watching someone you love be buried alive. (pg 33)

This week I finished the book "Candor" by Pam Bachorz. I really enjoyed this book because it was a science fiction genre. Candor is taken place in Candor, Florida (which is a real place). In Candor, everything is perfect, teenagers respect their parents, they do all their chores, and enjoy doing their homework, and never do they break any rules. You might ask: How is this possible? Well the answer is, everyone is controlled by subliminal messages that the creator of the town invented. These messages brainwash people in to doing whatever the messages tell them to do.

I finished reading the book “After” by Amy Efaw, it was 350 pages long. This book was about Devon Davenport, a 16 year old high school student who had a perfect school life. She was a straight A student, and she was one of the best goalies in her soccer team. But one of the most important things that she didn’t have was a family. Devon could cover up the topic of her family by talking about her school grades, and her soccer career, but she couldn’t do that forever. And it really hurt inside knowing that she couldn’t have a family that supported her, a family that she could rely on.