este es un trabajo escolar que hice en "clase de grabado" y esta basado en un cuento llamado "sueños de escarabajos" y trata de un chico enamorado inspirado por las canciones de los Beatles :)
Okay! First review, since I just finished this a day ago.
In this story, Amy Curry’s life has been turned around by the tragic car-crash-induced death of her father a few months back, leading to her brother going to rehab and her mother moving to Connecticut for a ‘fresh start.’ She has been living alone in their house in California until the end of the school year while it was on the market. But now that the school year’s over, she has to take her mother’s car across the country to Connecticut.
However, Amy’s afraid to get back behind the wheel, which is where Roger comes into the picture. An old family friend that Amy barely remembers, and currently a college student in Colorado, needs to find a way to Philadelphia so he can spend the rest of the summer with his father. So when this opportunity comes up, it seems to work out perfectly: Roger drives Amy and the car to Connecticut, then rides a train to Philadelphia from there.
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This story was, strangely, addicting. Usually I’m not one for love stories, but this one’s a little different. They decide to take a few detours along the route of their trip, and these detours all satisfy a need they had to please or a barrier they had to break. The immense amounts of self-discovery in this book is astounding. Their first detour, to Yosemite, opens up Amy’s fear of facing the fact her father is dead, and leads her to the point later on that she can actually talk about it. Their second trip, to Roger’s Colorado college, helps Amy feel better about herself by ‘pulling her out of her shell,’ or so put. While also, it opens up the mystery as to what happened between Roger and his recent ex-girlfriend, which he doesn’t even know. Their next trip, to a town in Kansas, Amy begins to learn to talk about her father with other people. Then to Kentucky, Roger meets up with the recent ex-girlfriend (major bitch) and solves his problems with her. Then to Graceland, Amy actually does talk about her father with Roger, and learns to accept it. Then to North Carolina, Amy breaks into her brother’s rehab center to talk to him, making her reconnect with her family. Then, they continue the trip to it’s end.
What I didn’t like about this book was how much focus there was on Roger’s problems with his ex-girlfriend. It almost felt like that was the entirety of the book’s plot line, and the stuff about Amy’s father wasn’t really that important compared to Roger’s ex. Once they reach Kentucky and Roger is finally able to talk to this girl, it just happens too quickly. There’s a sense of the book ending right at this moment, which is really confusing because there’s a whole quarter of the story left once you reach this point. I almost didn’t want to continue because it felt like I was starting an entirely new book.
And then, that last quarter of the book, there’s the awkward stuff about Amy suddenly having an extreme crush on Roger, which is just thrown in your face as soon as the stuff with his ex is over with. There’s no warning to the point when she decides to kiss him, then sleep with him that night, and suddenly she’s madly in love with him and is very badly hurt when they have to split courses to get to their respected destinations. All of this happens over the course of about a day and a half.
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Mainly, this is a great book. There may be a lot of misplaced building-up of the main characters’ relationship, but it’s still addicting and a book you wouldn’t regret reading. Overall, the amount of self-discovery just makes me love this book, and the fact that it’s more about solving issues than creating new ones is great.