BEIGE

I’m posting the picture so you can enlarge it and see the cover for a reason. When I was at the library, I picked up this book. I am not sure why, because the cover is off-putting to me. However, I read the first page, liked it, checked it out, took it home and it’s been sitting on my shelf as I read every other book and then some new ones too. I didn’t remember that I’d read and liked the first page, and the cover just couldn’t get me excited enough to pick it up. So, finally, I ran out of library books and had to read. And guess what? Yep. I LOVED it.

It’s funny, unusual, and unique. There were times when things happened to the character that she hated, and I personally would’ve LOVED to happen to me when I was fifteen, so sometimes I wanted to just shake her, but other than that, it was just a great read. And if she’d embraced these things, well, then there wouldn’t have been much in the way of dramatic tension, now would there?

The book is about a girl from Canada who goes down to spend two and a half weeks with her punk rocker father in L.A. That’s all I’m going to tell you. That, and put it on your reading list. I’ll definitely be looking for more books by Castellucci.