How I Live Now 2

As I continued through out this book How I Live Now, I came to think about my experience. When I first arrived at the United Kingdom, my pastor drove our family to our new house. I didn’t know my pastor then and I, too, felt the same awkwardness. Nevertheless, for Daisy, it must have felt different to have a strange boy give her a ride home, especially when he was her cousin. She would have thought that a small boy driving a car with a cigarette seemed quite inappropriate but she didn’t say so because she thought she would look stupid. After she arrives, to her new yet ancient house, the one unlike her old house back in the New York City, she is introduced to her cousins and aunt. In my opinion, I thought at first they seemed quite indifferent when Daisy came over because they didn’t even know her name. The strange thing for me was that Edmond had a twin. It is strange to go out with a cousin of yours even though you had no idea who that person was but I thought this book was going to be full of love stories. However, with another boy who looked exactly the same except for the eye colors just messes up my whole assumption.

Coming from a city and moving into a rural area is not an easy thing to go through. This is because there are so many things that are done differently. For example, different ways of spending one’s leisure time or the menus for each meal. I definitely freaked out when I visited my grandmother’s house when I was young. I was also used to live in the urban areas so when I came over to my grandmother’s house, I didn’t like a thing from that lame countryside. I hated it. However, Daisy seems pretty fine living in her new home, getting along with her cousins and her aunt—yet.

How I Live Now

At first, as soon as I saw the cover of this book, I immediately thought that this book was another depressing my-parents-are-divorced story. However, as I read on, I discovered something different in this particular novel. How the narrator told her story was fascinating because I could tell her feelings and thoughts as I read each words in the pages but could not guess what she was going to do next. Daisy, the main character, suffers from eating disorder and she believes that she is not welcomed or wanted in any place she travels. Nonetheless, as she meets this boy called Edmond, it seems like her life is about to change in a great deal.

My first impression of this book was not as pleasing but something about the title made me pick this book out of the self in the library. The title shows me that the main character Daisy had a depressing past and a sad life but now she is trying to tell a different story, a true extraordinary teenage life tale. Daisy has moved in with her English relatives, because her stepmother dislikes her. Daisy is a New Yorker but finds the move to the English countryside quite a new experience. Daisy gets along well with her cousins and especially with Edmond who looked somewhat special to her when she first met him in the airport. I look forward to what’s going to happen later in the plot.