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Geurnica was all right. Parts of it I liked. The descriptions of the bombing of Geurnica felt very real as if the author had actually experienced it. And it makes you want to stare long and hard at Picasso's painting (referred to in the book). But the characters were rather formulaic and romanticised - I was left with the feeling that all Basque people are essentially the same - and I saw the ending coming from a long way away.
Something else I'm trying is YA fiction. My children are grown up but I always read at least some of the books they were reading as they were growing up and had some knowledge of Judy Blume, Terry Pratchett, The Babysitters' Club, Adrian Mole, Paula Danziger etc. Seems like there was a massive change with the Harry Potter novels so that everything now is fantasy or vampires. What do you read if you're a teenager who doesn't like these topics?
So I bought Libba Bray's Great and Terrible Beauty but find I have a low threshhold for this kind of stuff. I'm just cross I wasted the money.
But I would probably have liked it as a teenager. I certainly remember revelling in the Pan Book of Horror series.
Something else I'm trying is YA fiction. My children are grown up but I always read at least some of the books they were reading as they were growing up and had some knowledge of Judy Blume, Terry Pratchett, The Babysitters' Club, Adrian Mole, Paula Danziger etc. Seems like there was a massive change with the Harry Potter novels so that everything now is fantasy or vampires. What do you read if you're a teenager who doesn't like these topics?
So I bought Libba Bray's Great and Terrible Beauty but find I have a low threshhold for this kind of stuff. I'm just cross I wasted the money.
But I would probably have liked it as a teenager. I certainly remember revelling in the Pan Book of Horror series.