pickUtterly bleak, award winning YA novel translated from the Danish. A group of fourteen-year-olds set out to prove to one of their classmates that the world/life does have meaning, with devastating results.
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pickUtterly bleak, award winning YA novel translated from the Danish. A group of fourteen-year-olds set out to prove to one of their classmates that the world/life does have meaning, with devastating results.
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so-soThis was a very short read that I used as a palate cleanser this week. It was shockingly dark but it didn't blow me away as I was expecting. A group of school kids trying to find what really carries meaning in life turns into a twisted tale about greed, power, and the scary possibilities that arise in fundamentalist beliefs. It's clearly YA, and I would've enjoyed it more if it had gone into these issues more in depth.
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Page one of Janne Teller's brilliant, provocative YA book about meaning. One kid says #nothing matters so his classmates set out to prove him wrong. A quick but thought-provoking read. I highly recommend! (Although it is a real love-it-or-hate-it book.) TW for rape.
#quotsyjan18 @TK-421
"If something's worth getting upset about, then there must be something worth getting happy about. And if something's worth getting happy about, then there must be something that matters. But there isnt!.. In a few years you'll all be dead and forgotten and diddly-squat, nothing, so you might just as well start getting used to it!"
This #thoughtprovoking YA novel from Denmark was a favourite of mine to teach since it provoked a lot of debate.
One day, a kid climbs into a tree and starts taunting his classmates that "Nothing matters." The other kids go on a mission to prove him wrong.
It's a quick, unsettling, and at times, disturbing read that asks: What matters? What is meaningful?
#aprilbookshowers @RealLifeReading
pickI loved this book. Theres something horribly dark and twisted that rests within these pages. It reminds you that children are yes pure and innocent but they do not always know how to handle that purity that they represent and it's very possible that they can easily fall the other way.
So frustrating to be in a reading slump right when litsy comes out for Android omg. I just haven't been able to get myself to read much more than 20 pages at a time. I've mostly been crafting lately. I should really find an audiobook. Do you have a riveting audiobook recommendation for me?? #knitting
