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Every Crooked Pot
by
Renee Rosen (Goodreads Author)
In her heart, Nina Goldman knows that beauty is only skin deep. But as a teenager growing up in Akron, Ohio – with her larger-than-life father Artie, a colorblind carpet salesman and frustrated musician – the only thing Nina wishes for is…to be beautiful. Or at least normal. As if having such an eccentric dad wasn’t enough, Nina has another issue to face: the mirror. Born...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
June 26th 2007
by St. Martin's Griffin
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This is an awesome book about a family that becomes close. Nina, the daughter, has a hard time to find acceptance among her family. She has a birthmark located on her body that makes her very shy. Nina felt very unattractive to everyone because of birthmark that is located on her eye. During her family vacation, Nina somewhat, finds a cure to make it not so noticeable. For a reader who is self-conscious, this book would be a good one to read. It has a great storyline dealing with something you c...more
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Sounds like a good one -- I've read the first chapter. Can't wait to read the rest.
Update: I read this book in one sitting--disappeared for hours. Couldn't put it down. It's a beautiful and heartbreakingly real story about a girl with a facial birthmark. How she and her family deal with it, how it affects her personally as she comes of age and the effects of her "deformity" on the family dynamic is fascinating. Characters are well-developed. I feel like this family could be my next door neighbor...more
Update: I read this book in one sitting--disappeared for hours. Couldn't put it down. It's a beautiful and heartbreakingly real story about a girl with a facial birthmark. How she and her family deal with it, how it affects her personally as she comes of age and the effects of her "deformity" on the family dynamic is fascinating. Characters are well-developed. I feel like this family could be my next door neighbor...more
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Nina has a port-wine stain on her face. It's a bad one - the skin is bumpy, the white of her eye looks red all the time from the excess blood vessels, and the whole area is swollen so much that the kids at school called her "Big Eye-Little Eye" when they were young. It doesn't cause her any physical pain, but she spends a lot of time obsessing about her birthmark and thinking that it makes her unloveable.
Nina also has an incredibly manipulative and controlling father. He's always the life of the...more
Nina also has an incredibly manipulative and controlling father. He's always the life of the...more
The novel Every Crooked Pot by Renee Rosen is a fiction which I enjoy reading. Even though the novel is a fiction, the story is very realistic that many girls can relate to. I would recommend the book for girls but I’m not sure about the boys. Because the story includes how girls view about guys and how girls want to look pretty for guys and the novel has many girls talk involved. The main character in the story, Nina is not confident about how she looks because she has a red, bumpy birthmark on...more
Ugh. This book is ostensibly about Nina, her portwine stain and how she overcomes her disability, if you will. While that's not something that appeals to me -- I was primarily reading it because of its Akron setting -- the author could have won me over by writing a lively, interesting story.
Instead, you have a whiny main character who's never happy, even when things are going right, and a plotline that's really centered on the character's -- and author's -- relationship with her father. Because...more
Instead, you have a whiny main character who's never happy, even when things are going right, and a plotline that's really centered on the character's -- and author's -- relationship with her father. Because...more
It was an okay book. I wouldn't tell a friend to not read it if they picked it up, but I don't know that I'd recommend it either. I feel like it took a little while to get into the book and the characters don't grow or develop until the last chapter or two of the book. You hate the protagonist's father, you feel bad for the protagonist and then just feel like she's whiny, you don't learn much about the rest of the characters--such as the protagonist's mother, sister, brother or friends--and just...more
It was good, in terms of I was sucked in and didn't want to put it down.
the perfect example of the implausible idea is when I told one of my friends about this book and she was like...but why would the mark matter at all?
good question...I don't think that Nina had quality friends, and the fact that she never got rid of them proves that she didn't learn a whole lot.
I think that what others think of you depends of what you think of yourself. As Nina had an absolutely horrid image of herself, she...more
the perfect example of the implausible idea is when I told one of my friends about this book and she was like...but why would the mark matter at all?
good question...I don't think that Nina had quality friends, and the fact that she never got rid of them proves that she didn't learn a whole lot.
I think that what others think of you depends of what you think of yourself. As Nina had an absolutely horrid image of herself, she...more
Every Crooked Pot is a really good book! Its about a girl that has a problem with her eye. It doesn't hurt her but she doesn't like it at all. She feels that her eye will always look bad until her mom starts taking her to a clinic to have her eye examined. The doctors begin to tell her that after she has surgery her eye will be normal. Her mother also takes her to get special make-up to make her eye look smaller. She meets a boy and she thinks he's the one but he ends up leaving her for another...more
I was sucked into Nina Goldman’s life the minute I started to read this little gem of a book from Renée Rosen. Nina was born with a strawberry birthmark that covers one of her eyes, and early on she learned that it brings both good and bad attention to her. I agonized along with Nina as she struggled to fit in socially through middle school and high school, sure that her eye was the only thing keeping her from being popular. Nina’s story brought back memories from the mixed up social scene of my...more
3 1/2 stars...recommended by one of my "goodreads friends"...This is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who has a hemangioma across one eye. I really liked it, especially the second half, and thought the author had a good understanding of the psychological makeup of many teenagers, including the body image issues, insecurities, attention-seeking behaviors, and complex desires surrounding family (proud one minute, embarrased the next, and a desire to make everything okay for the more need...more
This book is about a girl named Nina who has a big birthmark on her and hates it. She gets bullied and teased because of it and the only way her eye will look normal is if she gets surgery. She meets a guy and falls in love with him, but he doesn't like her back and leaves. Nina thinks it is because of her eye. She thinks that if it wasn't for her birthmark, she would fit in, be normal and find love. I picked this book up because I was curious why the girl on the cover had her hair like that. I...more
I personally would consider this closer to an adult novel. It's too grown up for YA...and yet it's an adult novel that would appeal to 20-somethings like me who prefer YA style. I liked that it was set in an earlier decade, when there were less advanced medical options for dealing with her condition, and found it to be a gripping story.
At first,I wasn't looking forward to reading the book,because I chopped it up to being a boring book. I was wrong. I loved every minute of it, and although I don't have a birthmark holding me back I still felt like I could relate to Nina's wanting to fit in. The characters are memorable and I'd recommend it to everyone.
I loved this book! I haven't enjoyed a book this much in awhile. It's the coming of age story of Nina, a young girl with with a hemangioma on her eye (it follows her from about ages 13 to 20 or so). Of course, reading the book it become apparent that all the things she worries about are universal to most teens, hemangioma or no. Whereas most teens might think "why doesn't this boy like me?" she was thinking "it's because of my eye." She had a "reason." I found myself wondering many times whether...more
This book is a timeline of Nina Goldman's life, from a youngster to and adult. Ninna Goldman has a big pink strawberry birth mark on her eye. Nina thinks that she will never find true love, and everybody will make fun of her. When she goes back to school everybody makes fun of her except for a fat girl named Patty, who turns out to be Nina's best friend. Nina is having trouble understanding life as she matures. Nina's and Patty's friendship loosen and soon Nina is asking Patty why so many boys l...more
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... a fairly easy read and it's quite enjoyable. I was able to put it down but didn't want to.
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... a fairly easy read and it's quite enjoyable. I was able to put it down but didn't want to.
To read the full review, click here.
I didn't love the book. I picked it up and put down before because it just wasn't something I wanted to read. But I do love how the author put the twist of having an imperfection and showing how to deal with it and live your life.
Nostalgic novel set in the 70's about a girl with a port wine stain in and around one of her eyes. She deals with self esteem issues because of that. Also about her relationship with her larger-than-life father.
This was a wonderful coming of age tale, detailing the very horrors one faces with an abnormality on the road to become "normal". Nina is born with a Strawberry birthmark which consumes one whole eye. When she is younger it doesn't seem to matter but once she starts become a teenager she realizes it's what makes her different. So she continues to endure treatment after treatment to try to minimize the affect her eye has on other people. When it's practically unnoticeable anymore that's when she...more
i like this book it is very interesting. its sorta of a bully book in a way but mostly a struggling type of boook. im halfway dome and i like it :D
kinda gross...............
good i guess.........
i rated it a 4 but its possibly a 3.......
hmmmmmmmmmm.............
good i guess.........
i rated it a 4 but its possibly a 3.......
hmmmmmmmmmm.............
How a girl had some problems with her eye and took what people said about her and had a fun life with her friends it was an good book
This was lovely little book and i"m looking forward to this author's future writings.
A really well-written story that spans roughly ten years of a girl's life.
Nina has a port-wine stain/birthmark/hemangioma. It takes her a long-time to realize the truth of the addage, "Beauty is only skin deep". During her journey readers will laugh, wince, and experience the joys and sorrows of growing up, trying to fit in, and coming to terms with yourself.
Jun 17, 2011
Karen
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Awesome book! I was in tears by the end.
Really cool! I loved it!
This book's packaging is a great injustice to the story inside. From the cover and jacket description, it seemed like silly teen chick lit. However, it is truly a wonderfully told coming-of-age story. Many times I forgot it was fiction and thought I was reading an actual memoir. I was so drawn into the story of Nina. I am actually surprised by it's YA classification (Baker and Taylor recommends it for 7-9 grades), as I believe its story would appeal much more to grown women.
very boring
A good read.
Quick, easy to read, and entertaining.
A good story about how a young girl grows up dealing with a birthmark on her face.
Nothing fancy, or life-changing, just a good read.
Quick, easy to read, and entertaining.
A good story about how a young girl grows up dealing with a birthmark on her face.
Nothing fancy, or life-changing, just a good read.
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Most people discover their love of reading first and then decide to try writing. For Renee Rosen, it was just the opposite. From the time she was a little girl she knew she wanted to be a writer and by age seventeen had completed her first novel, with what she admits was the worst opening line of all time. Her hopes of being the youngest published author on record were soon dashed when her “master...more
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