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What Does Blue Feel Like?
Char is seventeen. She's in her last year of school. She's in a mess.
She can't sleep, she can't eat. She feels... nothing.
As Char deals with her parents, her boyfriend Jim, her friends, parties, school work and end-of-year exams, we feel just what it's like to be seventeen and so unsure that the future is anything more than just a concept of time.
A compelling verse novel f...more
She can't sleep, she can't eat. She feels... nothing.
As Char deals with her parents, her boyfriend Jim, her friends, parties, school work and end-of-year exams, we feel just what it's like to be seventeen and so unsure that the future is anything more than just a concept of time.
A compelling verse novel f...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Pan Macmillan Australia
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This is the story of Char, an adolescent girl in the midst of gripping depression, who feels isolated from her family and friends. In her final year at school and struggling, she states at the outset: 'I want it to be over, my whole life.'
Char is dependant upon her boyfriend Jim with whom she shares many drunken nights as she attempts to hide from her mental illness. The dependence on alcohol only exacerbates the problem because she engages in risk-taking sexual and self-harming behaviour. Char...more
Char is dependant upon her boyfriend Jim with whom she shares many drunken nights as she attempts to hide from her mental illness. The dependence on alcohol only exacerbates the problem because she engages in risk-taking sexual and self-harming behaviour. Char...more
What Does Blue Feel Like exceeded my expectations by a mile.
From the start of the book to the end, I could see the dramatic improvement in the author’s writing. At the beginning, the writing was awkward and the verses were a little forced. But it flowed together so beautifully near the end, in a haunting way. Verse novels/novellas are definitely among my favourites: they can capture emotion without making the main character seem whiny.
Davidson used this to her obvious advantage, because Char’s e...more
From the start of the book to the end, I could see the dramatic improvement in the author’s writing. At the beginning, the writing was awkward and the verses were a little forced. But it flowed together so beautifully near the end, in a haunting way. Verse novels/novellas are definitely among my favourites: they can capture emotion without making the main character seem whiny.
Davidson used this to her obvious advantage, because Char’s e...more
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What Does Blue Feel Like? is Australian author, Jessica Davidson's, debut novel. I borrowed it from the library after I read and loved her second novel, Everything Left Unsaid. The novel, written in verse, focuses on seventeen year old Char and from the beginning it's clear that she is not ok, often thinking to herself that she wants her life to be over. She can't remember when she started feeling like this but it's all she can think about. She teeters between feeling nothing to feeling asham...more
What Does Blue Feel Like? is Australian author, Jessica Davidson's, debut novel. I borrowed it from the library after I read and loved her second novel, Everything Left Unsaid. The novel, written in verse, focuses on seventeen year old Char and from the beginning it's clear that she is not ok, often thinking to herself that she wants her life to be over. She can't remember when she started feeling like this but it's all she can think about. She teeters between feeling nothing to feeling asham...more
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a brilliant book. not your typical novel format but it wouldn't have worked as well if it was. the imagery and emotions provoked were so powerful. reminded me a bit of Speak or Prep, and even though I loved both of those this definitely exceeds both.
Dec 09, 2009
Miranda
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I really enjoy reading books in poetry and that was the first thing that drew me into this book.
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