THE GOD OF ANIMALSBY: Aryn Kyle
Recently, I discovered the neatest thing since sliced bread. My library has access to a place called netlibrary. It's a place you can download books. You only get the license to actually listen to them for a few weeks, so it's just like checking it out from the library. While they don't have tons of books to choose from, they have way more than my local library. The first book I picked to listen to was The God of Animals.
Aryn Kyle's haunting coming-of-age novel is the kind of book that you want to share with everyone you know. Twelve-year-old Alice Winston is growing up fast on her father's run-down horse ranch--coping with the death of a classmate and the absence of her older sister (who ran off with a rodeo cowboy), trying to understand her depressed and bedridden mother, and attempting to earn the love and admiration of her reticent, weary father. Lyrical, powerful, and unforgettable, The God of Animals is our must-read, must-own, must-share book for March. --Daphne Durham, The Significant Seven Spotlight Title, March 2007
I loved it, despite the sometimes overuse of the "F" word!!!
I especially loved the fact that I can't sit still and listen to these books on my mp3 player, I have to get up and do something. I got SO much done around my house. I'm downloading another one right now so I can have some motivation to get some more things done today.
1 comment:
I remember really liking this book, in spite of all those f-bombs too. A painful coming of age story. Look at all of your reading! Fun.
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