Comments on: Review: How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff

By: Beth F

Beth F — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:34:08 +0000

Note to self: dig into the TBR pile and find this book (it's here somewhere) and read it already! .-= Beth F´s last blog ..Challenge: 2010 EW Summer Books =-.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:57:37 +0000

I really enjoyed this book as well. I agree that the loving relationship between the cousins was a bit disconcerting at the beginning but Rosoff wrote it so well that I found myself forgetting that point much of the time. I'm glad you enjoyed it! .-= Michelle´s last blog ..Susan Beth Pfeffer – Life As We Knew It =-.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:50:25 +0000

I found this totally moving, too, and have thought about it often since finishing it last year! Some of the images in the story, disturbing though they may be, are hard to shake. The "unnatural" cousin love was weird, I'll admit, but you're right: the love story is so realistically drawn, it was hard for me to be too weirded out by it. It just seemed... normal? I don't know. Definitely a fascinating novel. .-= Meg´s last blog ..It felt a little like stealing, but I most definitely took it =-.

By: zibilee

zibilee — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:59:28 +0000

Oh, this sounds like a wonderful book! I am so glad that it was such a compelling read for you and that you ended up loving it. I am going to add this book to my wish list right now. Yours is the first review I have seen of this book, and it was very well done! .-= zibilee´s last blog ..The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox -- Guest Post with Aarti =-.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:19:19 +0000

I loved this one too! For whatever reason neither the voice nor the cousin thing particularly bothered me. .-= Jessica´s last blog ..The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum =-.

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:02:42 +0000

I loved loved loved this book. But then I’m a shameless Meg Rosoff fangirl
.-= Nymeth´s last blog ..March by Geraldine Brooks =-.

By: Aarti

Aarti — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:55:33 +0000

I really liked this one as well, though I don’t remember it at all now Just a general memory of satisfaction!
.-= Aarti´s last blog ..Review: Sweet Dates in Basra =-.

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:29:29 +0000

I assumed this was a WWII novel, too! It does sound like a good read.

By: Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf

Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:20:34 +0000

Erm, that would of course be Eva, not Eve! (I swear these keys move around!)

By: Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf

Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:19:12 +0000

I wasn’t bothered by the run-on-sentences either, I thought it perfectly suited Daisy’s voice at the time.

Like Eve, I went into this thinking it was a WW2 novel!

I really like Rosoff as an author, she appears to try to have a unique voice for all her novels.
.-= Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf´s last blog ..Short-list Announced for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction =-.