If you've read "FAULT IN OUR STARS" other serious YA books to consider (excerpt from Boston Globe article)

If you've read "Fault in our Stars" (and haven't we all read and loved it!) -- from Chelsey Philpot's Boston Globe article, "Seasonal Reading for Young Adults":

"The best summer books blend elements of typical beach reads (romance, adventure, mystery, etc.) with reflective themes that explore friendship, loss, self-discovery, family, and more. The awesome plotlines of these titles will have readers tearing through pages, but the original and complex characters will leave them feeling that these tales, like the season itself, were over far too quickly.

“Before My Eyes” by Caroline Bock (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)

The lives of three young people — Max, the unhappy son of a state senator, Claire, a poet who feels responsible for her sister ever since their mother had a stroke, and Barkley, a troubled 21-year-old who hears a voice in his head — become joyfully and tragically intertwined one Long Island Labor Day Weekend."


Read the ENTIRE LIST of thought-provoking, complex, new young adult books at the Boston Globe website... https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014...

and don't be embarrassed if you are an adult reading these young adult novels!!


--Caroline

Before My Eyes
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Published on June 26, 2014 07:27 Tags: fault-in-our-stars, gun-violence, mental-illness, young-adult
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Milkweed Augustine Hi and thanks for wanting me to check this out! I think the article is really great. It is just as you said; full of interesting things, but unfortunately, I really DO NOT understand much of the topics they discuss as well as depict, although thoroughly done, becauuse "I" have never lived like this, which well includes romances, and beaches, which since I was 19 I have only gone to the beach in Florida, and once up here in Massachusetts; because no one would ever take me; including my Dad, and my younger brother who is profoundly estranged from us. Did you look at my new blogs too lately? I have been working hard on composing other blogs, like a five part blog of a paper which won me an award a midst my fellow Ordained intellects, "I, COMPUTER"-no one, I mean no one, will read it; even all of those peole who claimed they surely would, as well as other wonderful things I work so hard to write down, [pg2] of the blogs. I appreciate your interest in ME too. Bless you always, and I will go back later and look some more. You are a very talented writer as I said priorly.
Best!
PS
My bone marrow has gotten very bad again, and my already limited time has thusly become further limited. My cancer, so dispersed around my body; the cells will not calm down. Thanks for caring! I have a page of GOOGLE also.
Your friend always.
Lama Milkweed L. Augustine [PhD]
author, artist, pacifist leader, religious leader


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