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38th out of 42 books
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Tilt
by
Alan Cumyn
Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine’s spiky hair, her milky white shoulders, and the mysterious littl...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
March 26th 2013
by Groundwood Books
(first published July 13th 2011)
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Really 3.5 stars. Stan was an incredibly likable average teenage boy. Popular enough, talented enough, smart enough. My favorite scene took place when a teacher called him out for talking during class. Teacher asked him to explain himself and Stan used the opportunity to apologize to a girl he liked, for his fumbled attempts at talking to her on the phone. "Stand up." Mr. Stillwater's eyes never left Stan. Maybe this wasn't going to pass after all. Stan rose uneasily. "What does everyone know?"...more
This book wasn't bad. I had a great deal of fun with Cumyn's "The Secret Life of Owen Skye" and I was expecting a similar feeling from this book, but I didn't get that at all. I mean, I did find this book an easy read. It didn't take me long to get through it, and there were definitely parts where I felt like I didn't want to put it down, but it wasn't amazing.
I liked Stan as a person, though I suspect he's much more sensitive and decent than your average sixteen-year-old boy. His interactions w...more
I liked Stan as a person, though I suspect he's much more sensitive and decent than your average sixteen-year-old boy. His interactions w...more
Stanley is a normal teenage boy, struggling with constant erections and erotic fantasies of his crush, shooting hoops and playing cricket with his best friend. His home life isn't so hot, his mom and her boyfriend not really paying any attention to Stan or his little sister, Lily. Stan is responsible for keeping the family together, for making them seem reasonable on the outside.
When Janine, his crush, asks him to a dance, he wonders why on earth she would ask him. His best friend, Matthew, tel...more
When Janine, his crush, asks him to a dance, he wonders why on earth she would ask him. His best friend, Matthew, tel...more
Stan's family situation is gritty and tough emotionally for him, and his release from this is sexual fantasy. It makes sense in context of the story and actually works on some levels, but the problem on the whole is lack of character development. Stan doesn't change, though he acts upon his dreams at the end, and I felt like Janine was flat, flat, flat (she was "tilted," slang for lesbian, but she ends up sleeping with Stan...and there's never any emotion ringing from here on any of this).
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I liked the main character, Stan. The situations going on around him were 100 percent believable. His life seemed realistic. I had one problem with the book, Stan seemed perceptive and insightful. Do 16 year old boys like Stan exist? I didn't grow up with any, I've never worked with any, and I've never taught any. I am curious if this book will have the boy appeal I hoped it would when I picked it up.
Although Stan thinks about himself he considers and is considerate of others, even at his own ex...more
Although Stan thinks about himself he considers and is considerate of others, even at his own ex...more
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While not a book I could recommend to my Middle School students, I did enjoy Tilt and the crazy world of Stan and his friends and family.
The book is quite brave in its discussions about sexuality and the general angst of being a teenager. Janinie is not like any other character you will have read about in YA fiction, and Stan is a very funny (albeit quirky) character;you are never quite sure what's going on with him. That is, unfortunately, part of the problem of the novel. There seems to be an...more
The book is quite brave in its discussions about sexuality and the general angst of being a teenager. Janinie is not like any other character you will have read about in YA fiction, and Stan is a very funny (albeit quirky) character;you are never quite sure what's going on with him. That is, unfortunately, part of the problem of the novel. There seems to be an...more
I wasn't expecting much from this book, but it was great! A lot of YA books like this can read like a bad episode of 90210. If Cumyn keeps this up I'll put him on my list of must read YA books, like those from John Green.
Stan's life changed five years ago when his dad walked out on them. Now it's about to change again over Janine, a spiky haired girl with a tattoo who people say is a lesbian. But if she is, why is she paying attention to him? All this confusion is compounded when his dad reappe...more
Stan's life changed five years ago when his dad walked out on them. Now it's about to change again over Janine, a spiky haired girl with a tattoo who people say is a lesbian. But if she is, why is she paying attention to him? All this confusion is compounded when his dad reappe...more
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Stan is your average sixteen-year-old guy. He wants to make the JV basketball team and has a huge crush on Janine, who is supposedly "tilted" and a "gwog" (aka a lesbian). He lives with his mother and his younger sister, Lily ever since his father abandoned them when Stan was young. His father shows up one day with Stan's half-brother and things get confusing.
I really don't have a lot to say about this book....more
Stan is your average sixteen-year-old guy. He wants to make the JV basketball team and has a huge crush on Janine, who is supposedly "tilted" and a "gwog" (aka a lesbian). He lives with his mother and his younger sister, Lily ever since his father abandoned them when Stan was young. His father shows up one day with Stan's half-brother and things get confusing.
I really don't have a lot to say about this book....more
Jul 05, 2012
Cory Snider
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This book is definitely a tale of 2 halves. By this I mean the first half of the book is somewhat slow paced and rather mild. The second half the pace quickens and so does the language and the scenes. I had high hopes for this book, but it really fell short of my expectations. It is as if two different authors wrote this. I was expecting more basketball and less "love" story. However, it was just the opposite. The book is certainly valuable to teenage boys going through some difficult times, bu...more
This was an interesting book. I had trouble at first with the way the author wrote, it felt scattered to me, but like most other things, as you read you get used to it. It is a pretty honest look into what it is like for a 16 year old boy trying to find himself. The book combined family trouble, girl troubles and sports trouble and did so pretty well- you rooted for Stan all the way through.
I enjoyed this book very much. I really loved Stan's character and the manic writing style suited his frame of mind. It was very frank about the, ahem, biology of being a 16 year old boy too, which was by turn funny and sad, sometimes both.
My only complaint is that the basketball aspect of this story felt a bit tacked on.
My only complaint is that the basketball aspect of this story felt a bit tacked on.
Oddly evocative of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" in it's dreamy tale of sexual awakening amidst familial & life strife, this one won't appeal to every reader, but for those looking for something a little different, it'll surely suffice.
Good book but so not for my 5th and 6th graders. I am think high school would be an appropriate level.
I am reading a lot of good books this year.
Also, this isn't quite as racy as you may have heard.
Also, this isn't quite as racy as you may have heard.
Great characterization of a 16 y/o boy....sensitive and hormonal....yet real. Loved the spastic family...great read.
ehhh...
basketball playing high school boy meets strange, intoxicating girl while parents are fighting about everything and his half brother. picks up about half way in when things start to happen such as: in the pouring down rain, the boy and girl kiss. she runs away. he tries to get to the bottom of what it all means.
An excellent and honest story from the perspective of a 16-year-old male protagonist. Well done.
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