Aug 2, 2008

A Summer To Die

I like reading but I’m not a big fan of books. I mean I enjoy reading and often just like everyone else, when I read a good book I will tend to forget the world around me. It’s just that I hardly ever buy any books. The books I read were always someone else’s and I don’t spend time at bookstore or surfing the net to look for the latest bestseller. People will recommend and lend their books to me (or buy it for me) and if I’m in the mood I will read it.

Everybody seems to have their favorite books, and they like to tell people about them. Well I’m going to jump on the bandwagon now. So here it comes, my first official book review on the record.

One of the first books that really stick to my mind was ‘A Summer To Die’, by Lois Lowry. That was the first book that she wrote. I didn’t know who she was then, it was the cover of the book that made me want to read it. Don’t know why, but the blurry drawing looked interesting to me.

Apparently Lois Lowry is a famous children/young adults book writer. One of her books, ‘The Giver’ won an award that I can’t be bothered to look up for in the net right now. That book was for some reason banned from some school. Why? Look it up yourself!

Back to “A Summer To Die”. It was about 2 sisters, Meg & Molly who differs in everything; the way they look, the way they look at things and the way people look at them. It’s hard enough for them to move to a new place, going to new school, meeting new people but for them to have their love hate relationship just made it more interesting.

What do I like about ‘A Summer To Die’?

The book can make you laugh and cry at the same time and I mean it literally (I didn’t cry though). With things happening to their life, Meg, the younger of the sisters was forced to mature up quicker then she should and Molly was forced to let go of the life that she dreamt of. The story is told from Meg point of view, her childish but intelligent mind was the focus of the story. The language was simple, the story fast flowing and cleverly written with light sense of humor all through out.

The beginning of the book caught my attention immediately. The book started with Meg watching in shock as Molly drew up a line with a chalk, wall to wall, separating the bedroom they share. “Now you can be as much of a slob you want on your side of the room,” said Molly (or something like that).

My favorite part of the book is when Meg woke up in the middle of the night, sensing something terrible was happening. I remembered being scared reading it.
Another one is ‘the eating peas’ scene. When Meg suddenly burst into tears I almost cried (again, I didn’t).

So go and look for this book. Entertaining light reading and yet it will make you change the views you have on some of the things in your life.

Pity I lost this book, I would have read it for the umpteenth times right now…

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