The Mockingbirds in Pick-a-Shelf

Jun 12, 2010 Tara rated it liked it

Shelves: 2014-abc

I think addressing the matter of date rape in high school is one that would be hard to do right. I think Whitney did a really good job presenting the issues and points of view that often follow such a case.
I was not the biggest fan of Alex (the protagonist), but in a way I think that may have made the book a little stronger. Alex was not all that likable and so as the reader I was more critical of her and so it made her case a little more interesting. She was not a reliable witness due to her d ...more

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Feb 24, 2011 Alba BookPics rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned, gifts, signed

DAISY...
I don't know how you did it...but I'm completely speechless and dumbfounded I have NO idea what to write in this review...
Your book was too raw too good too difficult too special to my heart, first because you gave it to me...YOU GAVE IT TO ME OUT OF YOUR OWN HEART T_________T
And second because...I cannot believe this...I thought...Okay...I'll be okay, things like this happen all the time...but then I read the authors note and thought...How in the WORLD? What? Why? How could she write ab DAISY...
I don't know how you did it...but I'm completely speechless and dumbfounded I have NO idea what to write in this review...
Your book was too raw too good too difficult too special to my heart, first because you gave it to me...YOU GAVE IT TO ME OUT OF YOUR OWN HEART T_________T
And second because...I cannot believe this...I thought...Okay...I'll be okay, things like this happen all the time...but then I read the authors note and thought...How in the WORLD? What? Why? How could she write about this...
I think Alex is strong, I think she's the perfect example of what a girl would act like and think like if what happened to her ever happened to her...<--- Does that make sense?

I cried, not in the ending...but in between. When she felt guilty, when she felt cheated, when she felt SHE had let herself down, when the thing she loved the most was what brought her the most pain, when she doubted things she shouldn't be doubting.
I felt claustrophobic in a way I never thought I would, because I KNEW those walls wouldn't close up on me, I new she was wrong in thinking that it was her fault in the first place-Now this sounds like a letter to Daisy but, the heck? hehehe is my "review".

I love how the topic of the book came right out, no sweet-coating it not mumbling it...it was what it was, it exists, it happened to Alex, it can happen to any other person in any other school, high school, university, college, take your pick.

Oh, and the writing...I felt like when I felt while reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman...I can't believe that such an awful thing could be written so beautiful. I love Daisy's writing, is so different and had me going back a lot of times, just for the sheer pleasure of rereading a dark but beautiful passage, whether Alex was remembering or Maia was debating or Martin was being so crush-worthy or when Amy was being Amy or when Marting appeared again and talked about barn owls...I LOVED every second of the time it took me to read this book and although I had to put it down for a long time thanks to my review books, I'm so happy I could FINALLY come back and finish the masterpiece that this book is...

Daisy...if I could even describe what you've done to my heart with this book I don't think I would have rambled all I did as you see. So I'll just thank you from the bottom of my heart and take my hat off.
Thanks.

On the blog I give it my special rating
10/5 ...more

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May 03, 2011 Joanie marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: own, young-adult, bargins

Just got this at the very sad closing sale at Borders/

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Jul 07, 2015 Deedee marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: boarding-school, usa-rhode-island, year-2010, coverx-birds, coverx-animal-real, published-in-11november, d3, young-adult, added-060115-083115, m2

Lexile 720L
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11.0

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