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I wish I read the paper format because the illustrations found on the illustrator's website are breathtaking.
Thirteen year old Conor has nightmares and is visited by the same monster that haunts him in his dreams every night, until one night at 12:07 AM he starts being visited by another monster different from his nightmares once his mom starts cancer treatments. It's the yew tree from his backyard, the one that his ill, cancer suffering mom has mentioned frequently since she's been getting tre ...more
Thirteen year old Conor has nightmares and is visited by the same monster that haunts him in his dreams every night, until one night at 12:07 AM he starts being visited by another monster different from his nightmares once his mom starts cancer treatments. It's the yew tree from his backyard, the one that his ill, cancer suffering mom has mentioned frequently since she's been getting tre ...more
"There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between."
Wow, this book really gets to the heart of things. So beautifully told. ...more
Wow, this book really gets to the heart of things. So beautifully told. ...more
This book is so beautifully yet tragically written I'm not even sure I have the proper words to describe it. Such descriptive metaphors used to cope with loss and healing....I could not put this book down. Patrick Ness did a brilliant job of writing the untold story for Siobhan Dowd. She would've been proud.
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This book is profound in many ways. It grips your interest and your emotions.
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This book is so beautifully yet tragically written I'm not even sure I have the proper words to describe it. Such descriptive metaphors used to cope with loss and healing....I could not put this book down. Patrick Ness did a brilliant job of writing the untold story for Siobhan Dowd. She would've been proud.
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"The answer is that it does not matter what you think, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."
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