Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nuyl Choi
A very heartfelt and interesting story. From the view point of a little Korean girl during the Japanese occupation of Korea, the author gets the reader personally invested in the character. I believe novels such as this one are great for use as a cross-curricular tool with reading and history. Subject-wise, this book is great; I did, however, think it raced too quickly through the plot. I desired more detail and wanted to spend more time on each of the events in the story. (The things that happened in the life of this little girl gave the story itself potential to be a real tear-jerker, but the writing didn't do that for me.) Maybe the author thought that watering down the events in the story made it more kid-friendly, but I think children would react better if they became more personally invested in the character through more detailed writing. Overall, I think this book was a good read, but didn't wow me.
No comments:
Post a Comment