I had never heard of this book before I bought it. I saw it on the shelf at Ed McKay and I saw that Amy Sedaris said it was funny and so I read a page...moreI had never heard of this book before I bought it. I saw it on the shelf at Ed McKay and I saw that Amy Sedaris said it was funny and so I read a page out of the middle and I bought it. I've done that on occasion in my life--bought a book I've never heard of and it ended up being awesome. I've done it on more occasions where I bought a book I've never heard of and it ended up being awful. But this one is awesome. It makes me kinda sad that boys are idiots and like to talk about penises and poop, but I can set that aside for a moment and appreciate this kid for his insight.
Insight. Definition: penetrating understanding into character or hidden nature (from dictionary.com)
I need all the insight I can get. It is perhaps the thing I need most these days. Insight. As I don't have any of my own, I'll have to take Junior/Arnold's. I will try to appreciate that right now, I am overcome with the desire to eat pizza and I am ALSO overwrought with trying to figure out how to use my sadness and fear instead of letting it use me.
I don't know how to review a book such as this. I feel profound and grossed out and enlightened and elementary and I'm sure something else but I'm not...moreI don't know how to review a book such as this. I feel profound and grossed out and enlightened and elementary and I'm sure something else but I'm not aware enough to figure it out or vocabularied enough to share it.
I love Sissy Hankshaw, but maybe only in the way she is me as the way I want to be and fear I already am. Aren't all protagonists like that? I don't want giant thumbs and I don't want to live in a cave, but maybe in my head all those things are real already. Isn't it like that in your head, too?
This book reminded me (and I like to be reminded often) that we are bonded to this earth; I like to close my eyes and feel the energy of the universe lassoed to my chest, to remember that the dull mind was never really there to start with.
I really like Trickster stories. Partially because my parents read me the Brer Rabbit stories all the time when I was little. Partially because my fir...moreI really like Trickster stories. Partially because my parents read me the Brer Rabbit stories all the time when I was little. Partially because my first job out of college was stage managing an Anansi play at Virginia Stage Company. Partially because I spent years reading Charles de Lint. Partially because I really like animals. So anyway, that being said, my love of trickster stories, plus extremely low expectations when I started reading Coyote Blue made me like this a lot.
I'm sure I have more to say, about not being afraid, and about loving fully, and about being nice to ants, but it's all still swimming around in my head, waiting to be processed later.(less)
I love this book and I'll give it four stars. But it's not for the reasons you think it is. I love it because it makes me think about myself. I love i...moreI love this book and I'll give it four stars. But it's not for the reasons you think it is. I love it because it makes me think about myself. I love it because Jerry Spinelli has a few phrases here and there that pluck my literary chord. I love it because it taught me new ways to be myself. But I don't love Stargirl the girl. I feel sorry for her in a way. I can't tell where the lines are supposed to be drawn. Where is self and where is relationship? Where is give and where is take? I'm supposed to want her to touch me and to stare into my eyes and sing me a song and make me a better person. But I don't want those things. I don't think emulating Stargirl is the way to go. She's perfect.
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