Honey, I'm Hoooome!!
Wow, it's been a long long time since I posted anything. I've been lurking around Livejournal but my internet in the dorm is such that I can't do anything important except schoolwork. I can't download from from mediafire or megaupload or anything like that nor can I post anything on Livejournal.
It sucks, I tell you.
However, I got into something this past week that I just had to rave about and that, my friends, is On The Jellicoe Road, a Young Adult fiction novel. People, despite the fact that I am a young adult, I typically don't read any YA novels. In fact, the last one I remember reading before Jellicoe Road is the Twilight saga. Yep, not a good track record.
Fortunately, for me, my reorientaion with the world of teen angst with Jellicoe Road has made me take a hard critical look at my reading past. People, if you haven't heard of Melina Marchetta's On The Jellicoe Road, then today is your lucky day. I am about to pimp the life out of this novel.
Simply put, it might be the best novel I have read since, I don't know, ever.
What is it about, you wonder?
Taylor Markham is not a popular choice. She is erratic, has no people skills and never turns up to meetings. Not to mention the incident when she ran off in search of her mother and only got halfway there. But she's lived at Jellicoe School most of her life and as leader of the boarders that's her greatest asset. Especially now the cadets, led by the infamous Jonah Griggs, have arrived. The territory wars between the boarders, townies and cadets are about to recommence.
But Taylor has other things on her mind: a prayer tree, the hermit who whispered in her ear, and a vaguely familiar drawing in the local police station. Taylor wants to understand the mystery of her own past. But Hannah, the woman who found her, has suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing but an unfinished manuscript about five kids whose lives entwined twenty years ago on the Jellicoe Road.
I rarely come across a novel that is so universally acclaimed as seen here, here, and here, and loads more where that came from. In fact, Jellicoe Road won American Library Association’s Printz Award. Then it was selected for DABWAHA. At this point, nothing I can say about this will make it better than it is.
Just read it.
If you don't want to shell out money and but it untill you're sure I'm right, just look for its ebook online and download it for free. I promise you won't regret it. The story is just so... so... It's the first time I've ever had a crush on a fictional guy but the guy in this story, Jonah Griggs, is to die for. This is one of the only books that I am absolutely sure the main characters will stay together forever, that's how convincing the romance part is.
All I can say is, do yourself a favor and get this book, 'kay?