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Title: Both Sides Now by Ruth Pennebaker ISBN: 0-613-72329-5 Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.55 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: ¿Cancer: How teens feel¿
Comment: Both Sides Now is a book about a woman who has breast cancer. She has two daughters, one a sophomore in high school, and the other one about 9 or 10 years old. The younger daughter really doesn't understand what's going on with her mom. Now Liza (the sophomore), understands and has a hard time coping with it on top of teenage problems! Liza wants to be able to talk to her mom about what her views are about it, but her mom has to many mood swings. The publicity of everyone wanting to know how her mom is doing. On top of that she's dealing with a lot of things with her friends.
I personally don't like this book, because it's not an interesting subject for me. But if you like things about cancer, or ways teenagers cope with things this would be a good book for you!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Quite a fine book.
Comment: Liza, at fifteen, is no typical teenager. She jogs, studies hard and gets straight A's, is very responsible, and doesn't drink or smoke. She's nothing like her mother Rebecca, who spent two years working on a novel she couldn't publish. But then everything changes when Rebecca's breast cancer, thought cured, reasserts itself. Within a month Liza flunks driver's ed because she can't concentrate, gets into huge trouble when she forgets to read a school newspaper article before publishing it, and gets drunk with a boyfriend. Her family is all torn apart with worry over Rebecca, who may not survive her cancer.
All of the story is written in the first person present tense, like Ruth Pennebaker's other two novels. Most of it is from Liza's point of view, but there are some interesting vignettes narrated by Rebecca. The doctors cut off both her breasts trying to stop the cancer. Then they decided to do a stem-cell transplant, a very extreme treatment that keeps you on the brink of death for weeks. It almost kills a person, but it might just save their life.
At that time Liza overhears her parents fighting. "I haven't stopped hoping," Rebecca says. "I'm just hoping for something else not." Some time later she tells her children that she's decided not to have the stem-cell transplant. It's not worth it, she says. The story ends there, leaving it up to the reader to decide whether or not Rebecca survives her cancer. At the back of the book you discover that Ruth Pennebaker is a cancer survivor too.
It was a fine book, though I liked the other two better. My favorite character was Liza's best friend Rory, a "slut" who's slept with eleven guys since entering high school. You can see how Rory's slutishness is really a result of underlying insecurity, but the wholeschool condemns her. All of the characters were well-drawn. I would recommend.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Story of Hope- I hope you'll read it!!!
Comment: The book Both Sides Now is a great book! It is definitely one of the best books I have read! The story centers on Liza, a teenage girl, and her mother, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. This story is a story of hope and courage that should relate to us all.
I liked this book because it showed how and illness effects everyone in the family. I especially like the way Liza put her life back together when it fell apart. I think that everyone should read this inspiring book. It can help you realize the difference between giving up and moving on.
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