With books that I must readI'm going to refer to this as the 'chicken book'
Required school reading
And I have finally completed the chicken book.
With books that I must read for school, I’m often at a loss when I’m asked how I feel about them personally.
I don’t know how I feel about the book, I don’t know how I feel about the characters, and I don’t know how I feel about the ending.
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But I do think we all have a bit of Nomi in us.
Nomi’s a snarky, sarcastic, confused sixteen year-old girl who’s just trying to find her place in life and seeing the very in depth details of her Mennonite village from her eyes really awakened something in me.
I find myself relating to Nomi quite a bit, okay maybe not the part where her mother and sister ran away, or the part where she smokes cigarettes religiously, or the part where she lives in a house where the furniture keeps diminishing, but the part where Nomi is just plain, old, lost Nomi.
I’m being generous with my rating here and it’s not because the book is bad, it’s because I was expecting more from it and I was disappointed I never really got the answers to my questions (maybe that’s supposed to be some ingenious writing style but pahleez, save that for the critics, this girl is just here to read).
“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
This book was actually hilarious in many ways. Nomi has this dark humour thing about her where she likes to focus things that everyone else disregards and then twists it into some sarcastic remark.
I quite like Nomi.
But I felt the ending was lacking, my questions weren’t answered, I was only left more confused, and nothing was really tied together.
I’m gonna have to go make some character sketches now and philosophize about the themes and writing styles that were used in this book, but as a girl who just likes to read for fun, this book was surprisingly more than I expected.
“I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.”
If you were to ask me what this book was about, I wouldn't be able to answer you. Literally, 90% of this book didn't make sense to me.
Fortunately, ( If you were to ask me what this book was about, I wouldn't be able to answer you. Literally, 90% of this book didn't make sense to me.
Fortunately, (or maybe unfortunately) I'm not obliged to write a review about it since I only read it for school. - I would have DNFed it ages ago if I could. :p