Sunday, October 12, 2008

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.

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