I took me a couple of tries to get through this book. At first I wasn't sure how much I thought I would like it, but I always found myself coming back to it and wanting to know how it was going to end. So I gues that says something for it. But it would not get my vote for the Printz Award.
Yes, it definitely was not my favorite, but a lot of people certainly love it. For me the character of Briony was annoyingly self-loathing. It was hard to understand how Eldric and Cecil could care about her when she hated herself so much. And I was never quite sure if what was happening was real or in her imagination. I felt off-balance the whole time reading.
Something else I was thinking about - Chime has gotten so many positive reviews that it makes me wonder if my experience listening to it on CD was very different from reading the book. I think where it succeeds is to create an inner dialogue in Briony that seems uncharacteristic to the person she is in her interactions with others. She often talks about wearing a "Briony mask," which makes me think she really feels like two people, who maybe reconnect in the end with the help of steady relationships with Eldric and Rose, who had always loved her. My question is this - what is a bible ball??
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I took me a couple of tries to get through this book. At first I wasn't sure how much I thought I would like it, but I always found myself coming back to it and wanting to know how it was going to end. So I gues that says something for it. But it would not get my vote for the Printz Award.
Yes, it definitely was not my favorite, but a lot of people certainly love it. For me the character of Briony was annoyingly self-loathing. It was hard to understand how Eldric and Cecil could care about her when she hated herself so much. And I was never quite sure if what was happening was real or in her imagination. I felt off-balance the whole time reading.
Something else I was thinking about - Chime has gotten so many positive reviews that it makes me wonder if my experience listening to it on CD was very different from reading the book. I think where it succeeds is to create an inner dialogue in Briony that seems uncharacteristic to the person she is in her interactions with others. She often talks about wearing a "Briony mask," which makes me think she really feels like two people, who maybe reconnect in the end with the help of steady relationships with Eldric and Rose, who had always loved her. My question is this - what is a bible ball??
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