Well, it's official - I am a total sucker for a stream-of-consciousness style narration.The writing was very wistful and if it was any more flowing, I would certainly have slipped and face-planted half way through this!You know how from time to time a book comes along that you're positive you won't forget about it anytime soon but can't really explain exactly WHY? That's how I feel about How I Live Now and these precious kids.Charming surrounding, extraordinarily charming characters (ohmigod Pip...

This summer I started doing more fitnessy activities not in an attempt to lose weight or clear my prematurely blocked arteries but in response to the plethora of Young Adult Dystopian Novels that led me to question whether I could a) win the Hunger Games b) jump from a moving train with my Dauntless buddies c) take out an alien with a swift kick to the face and then evade their hot spaceship pursuit. The answers to these questions are a) no b) no c) no. Young Adult Dystopian Novels forced me to ...

I spent a while considering how I would rate this book, but finally decided on a full 5/5 rating, and here's why:It troubles me greatly that so many readers can't see past the unconventional relationship between our protagonist and her cousin, because it so wholly isn't what the book is about. That's the only real downfall of "How I live Now"--unfortunately, Meg Rosoff seemed to target her book towards an audience too immature to realize that this novel is a novel about SURVIVAL. It's a novel ab...

While the world wavers on the brink of war, struck by terrorist attacks and embargoes, Daisy's big concern is whether her stepmother is poisoning her food and how much she hates the unborn baby. Shipped off by her father to stay with cousins she's never met in England, she's not so far into herself that she doesn't notice something a bit odd about them. Osbert, the eldest, seems fairly normal, being responsible for his siblings while their mother, Daisy's Aunt Penn, is away but really wanting to...

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I have so fond memories of this book

The world has gone mad... What is there to add more?While the book was a bit overly simplistic, there was something endearing about it. The 4 stars is for the unorthodox punctuation.Q:Every war has turning points and every person too. (c)Q:If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all. (c)Q:I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find ...

Horrible. This book contained inappropriate content for the recommended 13 year old and up readers. An anorexic 15 year old has sex with her "cool", cigarette smoking cousin. This book is everything you wouldn't want your 13 year old reading about. On top of the disgusting content I found there to be really no plot and no real clear resolution or ending. The characters were strangers to me the entire time while reading. I found the whole story rather boring and pointless.PLOT:3/20 CREATIVITY:3/2...

In all fairness, I had plenty of warning. I'd read Tatiana's review so I should have been well prepared.Conventional wisdom states that when cousins get freaky, you're likely to end up with something like this:[image error]No! No! Noooooooooooooooooo!But nobody told Daisy and Edmond that. Nothing says true love like boinking your underage, nicotine addicted, telepathic first cousin while a war is going on.This book was infinitely better when Daisy and Edmond weren't doing things against all the ...

i may just be giving this five stars out of surprise... i was dreading reading all these teen books - not all of them look bad or anything, but there are just so many and i am so far away from my teenage years... but this one is a hoot! (if a book about war and death and eating disorders and all horrible things can be said to be a hoot. for my purposes i say yes) i liked the character's voice; it was just the right combination of faux-sophistication and vulnerability. and all the survival stuff ...