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What Members Thought
I just ugly cried my way through this book. wow.
EDIT: I want to add a few more things about this book now that it's the day after I read it and I've stopped crying, haha. I think everyone who reads this book can relate to the main character, Conor, who is coming to terms with his mother's terminal cancer. The book resurrected all the emotions I went through when I thought I would lose my own mother to cancer, almost ten years ago now. I thought the book handled grief and denial beautifully, not ...more
EDIT: I want to add a few more things about this book now that it's the day after I read it and I've stopped crying, haha. I think everyone who reads this book can relate to the main character, Conor, who is coming to terms with his mother's terminal cancer. The book resurrected all the emotions I went through when I thought I would lose my own mother to cancer, almost ten years ago now. I thought the book handled grief and denial beautifully, not ...more
Oh, I need a hug.
*Blows nose*
Dark illustrations enhancing highly emotive topics expertly written and presented in a wonderfully tactile and beautiful book.
A Monster Calls is an important and powerful piece of artwork, an absolute must read for every child. It deals with death, divorce, alienation, bullying, guilt, blame, the weight of responsibilty and basically the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Everyone has or will experience these things and Conor's a ...more
*Blows nose*
Dark illustrations enhancing highly emotive topics expertly written and presented in a wonderfully tactile and beautiful book.
A Monster Calls is an important and powerful piece of artwork, an absolute must read for every child. It deals with death, divorce, alienation, bullying, guilt, blame, the weight of responsibilty and basically the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Everyone has or will experience these things and Conor's a ...more
Both terrible and beautiful at the same time.
If you read this, you'll understand how accurate that statement truely is. This is a very sad tale of a middle school age boys struggle with his reoccurring nightmare and the coping way he deals with his new reality in his waking life. Monsters come in different forms depending on what we are dealing with.
A monster calls is beautifully written alongside some creatively dark artwork that I found fit the tone and scale of this well told story. There ...more
If you read this, you'll understand how accurate that statement truely is. This is a very sad tale of a middle school age boys struggle with his reoccurring nightmare and the coping way he deals with his new reality in his waking life. Monsters come in different forms depending on what we are dealing with.
A monster calls is beautifully written alongside some creatively dark artwork that I found fit the tone and scale of this well told story. There ...more
5 stars
This was not at all what I thought it was going to be, but I loved it all the same. I listened to this book, which some might say is not recommended, but the audio came with illustrations, so I was able to look at the illustrations while listening and it did not take away from my enjoyment at all. In fact, the narrator, Jason Isaacs, drew me into Conor's story from the opening chapter and I couldn't stop. I was definitely crying by the end, but what a beautiful story. I have never heard o ...more
This was not at all what I thought it was going to be, but I loved it all the same. I listened to this book, which some might say is not recommended, but the audio came with illustrations, so I was able to look at the illustrations while listening and it did not take away from my enjoyment at all. In fact, the narrator, Jason Isaacs, drew me into Conor's story from the opening chapter and I couldn't stop. I was definitely crying by the end, but what a beautiful story. I have never heard o ...more
Wow!!
I really enjoyed this book, which is really weird to say due to its subject matter. It's about a young boy trying to come to terms with the fate of his sick mother and the monster who has come to seeking the truth. It is a beautiful, though very sad, story.
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amazing,beautiful, wonderful book. It is 5.40am and now I have finished it, once I stop crying, I can now sleep. Lovely.
May 25, 2012
Theresa Stouder
marked it as to-read
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Yusra Asaad
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Danielle
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Doug Rochelle
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