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Title: Make Believe : A Novel by Joanna Scott ISBN: 0-316-77666-1 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A Slow Moving Story
Comment: I picked this book up at the library recently and I have to say that although the storyline is a good one, I found the telling of Bo's tale to be much too drawn out.
The story begins with a car accident and Bo, a bi-racial child, is dangling upside down in his mother's car. His mother Jenny has been killed and Bo is now an orphan. From here the story continues with both sets of grandparents fighting for custody of Bo. The white grandparents only want Bo when they come to the realization that there may be some money involved. The story of the whole custody battle was slow moving and really not developed enough.
I enjoyed parts of the book but really felt it could have been a little less confusing in its depiction. It was somewhat disjointed and the characters never became real to me.
Rating: 3
Summary: tragic and atmospheric
Comment: This book both drew me in with its beauty and realistic portrayal of 3-year-old Bo's thoughts and repelled me with its unstoppable sense of tragedy. About responsibility and piousness as well as familial love, Scott also deals admirably with the tricky subject of interracial relationships. Bo's father dies before he is born, so he is left in the care of his still teen-aged mother (who has been disowned by her own family for falling in love with Kanon, who is African-American and Bo's father) and his father's loving parents. When his mother, Jenny, dies, a custody battle ensues between the grandparents and the situation escalates into one which is dangerous for everyone. I recommend this book due to the poetry of Scott's writing, and also the beautiful fragmentary style with which she switches between characters in the past and present.
Rating: 5
Summary: Life as it is, not only as it seems
Comment: I really liked reading Make Believe by Joanna Scott because it was a book that made you think of what was really going on. Joanna Scott used a lot of sensory and describing words, she didn't just tell you exactly what was happening, she made you figure it out for yourself what was actually happening. Also, I liked this book a lot because it doesn't sugar coat life how most people do. She was able to tell a story while making people aware of the dissfunctional society that we had and still do have. I would reccomend this book to anyone that has patience. This is an excellent book to read to make your own troubles not seem like troubles at all.
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Title: Tourmaline: A Novel by Joanna Scott ISBN: 0316608483 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Three Junes by JULIA GLASS ISBN: 0385721420 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by JON KRAKAUER ISBN: 0385509510 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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