The Road
It may have been part of Oprah's book club, but I really didn't care too much for it.
This didn't lend itself very well to a 'read aloud' book. I wasn't always sure who was speaking, as it lacked quotes and apostrophes. The main characters did not even have names or descriptions so I found that I didn't care about them as much as I thought I should have. Sure, you are rooting for them to survive in this grave wasteland of America. But I wanted to care for them more than I did. Many stories will make me cry, and this one did not.
It paints a very bleak picture of post-war life, and is certainly not optimistic about anything.
At least it read pretty quickly. When there was dialogue, it consisted of:
Are you okay?
I'm okay.
Okay.
Okay.
It also goes against my science courses that say that children must have sunlight to grow. Okay. Enough.
This didn't lend itself very well to a 'read aloud' book. I wasn't always sure who was speaking, as it lacked quotes and apostrophes. The main characters did not even have names or descriptions so I found that I didn't care about them as much as I thought I should have. Sure, you are rooting for them to survive in this grave wasteland of America. But I wanted to care for them more than I did. Many stories will make me cry, and this one did not.
It paints a very bleak picture of post-war life, and is certainly not optimistic about anything.
At least it read pretty quickly. When there was dialogue, it consisted of:
Are you okay?
I'm okay.
Okay.
Okay.
It also goes against my science courses that say that children must have sunlight to grow. Okay. Enough.