[LM_NET] BOOK: How I live now by Rosoff

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Rosoff, Meg._How I live now._Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2004 [0-385-74677-6]
  This is a powerful book and I am not sure how I feel about it.  Fifteen-year-old 
Daisy travels to England to visit her cousins.  Right after she arrives, the Aunt 
leaves to give a lecture in Oslo, leaving the children along.  While she is gone 
war (some fictional war) breaks out and they children are left to survive and live 
in their own morality.  Daisy's interest in her cousin, Edmond breaks into true 
love.  While nothing is descriptive about this incestial affair, it is VERY 
evident.  They children are separated during the war and see the gruesome 
atrocities which happen in such a situation.  After a period of time Daisy gets 
back to the US and after several years, returns to see Edmond.  The style of 
writing draws the reading right into the story but there are long run-on sentences 
and there are no quotation marks when people speak within a sentence.  It is a 
difficult read.  This 194 page book is only for your mature and good readers.  
Because of the incest, I have
 decided to send it to our HS.  I find it interesting that very few of the reviews 
mention the incest at all.  I think that is irresponsible.  Even if you don't 
purchase book, you should read it.  
   


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