“Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways…until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.”
I’m not sure what I expected when I picked up I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. I knew the basics: dual POV, everyone seems to love it, LGBTQIA+ themes, and then it went ahead and won the Printz a few days after I started reading, so I knew chances that I was going to like it were high.
But wow, you guys. I really really loved this one.
I'm not an externally emotional reader. I mean, I obviously have feels like everyone else, but I’ve yet to read a book that made me cry, as I’ve confessed here before, and I’m usually pretty good about keeping a stoic exterior while reading. But I’ll Give You the Sun put me on the brink of tears several times, which is ridiculously rare for me, and I just loved Noah and Jude so much, and the writing!
The writing. I think Nelson’s prose is one of those love/hate varieties, but I definitely fell on the love side. Both Noah and Jude’s voices were a little out there with some of the imagery and analogies, but I felt like I really got it, and it totally made sense to me with their very artsy personalities, and it just felt so fresh, and wonderful, and fit the tone of the book beautifully.
Noah and Jude aren’t perfect. They both make hurtful, cringe-worthy mistakes with big consequences. They’re emotional, and young, and full of dreams, and highs, and lows, and I became so very emotionally entangled with their stories.
I often tell people that the best books make you feel something. I’ll Give You the Sun didn’t make me feel something—it made me feel everything. I loved every page, and Nelson’s got herself a new fan for sure.
"At school we learn about before this world, the world of angels and gods living in heaven and ruled the Earth with love and kindness. Some say they are only legends, but I do not think so. The gods we still dominate, have descended from the stars and are left with not a shred of kindness. "In a divided by the color of blood society, the Reds are struggling to survive under the shadow of the Silver, "superhuman" with terrible powers that allow them to manage the world at will. But when you discover that Mare Barrow-a young thief Roja also has these powers, it is brought to the world of the Silver. There you will discover that power is a dangerous game and the only certainty is treason.
Today I come to speak of a book which has engaged me as few do. This is the Red Queen Victoria Aveyard. I had never heard of him, but I saw in the Central leafing through books as usual. Also on the cover was the sticker; the central recommended, which means that the book is good, very good. Also on the cover puts that was number one in the New York Times he could only add pros. I ended up devouring the book in less than three days.
The book tells the story of Mare, a girl who is about to turn eighteen. The world in which we live is divided into two kinds of people, the red, as is Mare because it has blood red and silver, the elite. The latter are as superhumans, in addition to the silver blood some have special skills. At the age of eighteen all red must serve in the army unless you have a job or are apprentices of a master. Unfortunately Mare is neither of those two things so in less than a month will leave her family and enlist.
Everything changes when his best friend Kilorn is forced to join the army. Then she decides to fight and do everything possible to escape with his friend the horrific future holds. Mare finds herself in situations that never she had thought possible and ends unexpectedly infiltrated into the greedy world of silver.
Mare is an ambitious and brave girl, the author is able to get into your skin with amazing speed. While accompanied by the mysteries of this dystopian world, we will be aware of the great character development.
It is true that the plot is not entirely new but reading the book is agile so we did not get bored of it and becomes a heavy history.
Undoubtedly this has been one of the best books I've read this year and can not wait to take out the second half.
Calpurnia, Callie Vee, is a girl who lives in a village in Texas. Although her mother insists that learn to play the piano, sewing and cooking, she is more interested in what happens behind the closed door of the library, or in the laboratory of his grandfather. Gradually he will earning this gentleman somewhat reclusive and begin to collaborate with him on his observations of the natural environment, you will learn who is Darwin, what are the species and subspecies and so idiots who become older siblings when they fall in love.
Not very well how to classify this book, although placing in children's literature or otherwise in youth. What I do know is that either of these two groups will enjoy it equally.
Calpurnia is a curious girl who lives in a small town in the United States. The story unfolds from the beginning of the summer of 1899 until the end of the century. Because it is set at this time, the role of women, as well as Calpurnia is limited to housework and parenting. Calpurnia can not understand why she, unlike her brothers, must learn to cook and to weave, among other things.
The book took me back to my childhood as quickly empathized with the tender Calpurnia and came to feel despair because of the inability to change the future that comes from birth imposed by society.
The author focuses the story on the warm relationship that is created, almost by chance, between Calpurnia and his beloved grandfather, Captain Tate. He is the most knowledgeable of the people of the region even though some man branded as "crazy old man". However Calpurnia feel genuine admiration for him. She enters with his grandfather in the world of science, becoming a small naturalist.
Reading is agile and although there is a clear argument, as it may be in dystopias or mystery books, traveling with Calpurnia is moving. That's why I recommend this book, which has a second part The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, which I'll talk later.
A great and amazing adventure for all ... except ordinary.
Had a couple of funny parents and young, full of dreams and plans. But my twelve years, five months, three days and two hours and fifteen minutes, approximately, I was without them ... Since Uncle Paco took care of him, Sebastian has lived incredible adventures: I had an unexpected encounter with a huge cat, he met one of the last vampires living in Mexico City; outside his home he saw a mythical character jump from the gondola in which he was riding to rescue a young woman from a flood; He got a star map for a poor lost alien on Earth, survived the onslaught of a huge sea monster, fought alongside the Sioux to defend their territory from the colonizers ... What about Sebastian? Is it not a "normal person"?
This book is very special, at least for me it was. I have a special devotion to this "class" of books, not exactly classify, as it somehow, books that make you think. Not that it is not a novel, yes it is, but it has a content in the form of complaint. Denunciation of today's society and denunciation of the values that are acquired in youth today.
Benito is anything but a "normal person" because few people would be able to create a similar story. The book is exciting, tells the extraordinary story of Sebastian, a boy of twelve. He is forced to live with his uncle when, unfortunately, his parents die in a car accident. At first the relationship between Sebastian and Uncle Paco is not very close but will evolve throughout history to lead a warm and close relationship. Uncle Paco is a curious, adventurous and loving man. Passionate about books and devoted to the defense of their ideas. The coexistence of the two will result Sebastián acquire each of these qualities that his uncle. thus becoming an intelligent young man and questioning everything that happens around them.
It's the perfect book to read when you are saturated fiction or fantasy novels.
“Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways…until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.”
"At school we learn about before this world, the world of angels and gods living in heaven and ruled the Earth with love and kindness. Some say they are only legends, but I do not think so. The gods we still dominate, have descended from the stars and are left with not a shred of kindness. "In a divided by the color of blood society, the Reds are struggling to survive under the shadow of the Silver, "superhuman" with terrible powers that allow them to manage the world at will. But when you discover that Mare Barrow-a young thief Roja also has these powers, it is brought to the world of the Silver. There you will discover that power is a dangerous game and the only certainty is treason.
