Another book from my Printz Award challenge, Monster, was not my favorite book from 2000 but I understand how and why it won the award. It’s a good thing I’m not the one sitting on those award committees.
I was a little afraid I wouldn’t be able to enjoy Monster at all because it was written in the form of a screenplay, because the kid up for murder is into film making, and I really dislike reading screenplays. But the story was compelling enough and I cared about the kid enough to muddle through all of the screenplay-ese. The book reminded me a lot of Upstate, a book TW and I listened to on audio a few months ago. Another young black teen in jail and going to trial for murder, you know the type society tends to label as “monsters”…
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You make me feel like an illiterate Denise. Do you know how hard it is for me to sit down with a book and really read it all the way through? It just doesn’t happen anymore….not like my girls do. But…everytime I come to visit you….you are into another book…..every time. I don’t know how you do it. I personally know how busy you usually are with the working end of your life…and yet, you still find time for all this reading. You continue to amaze me.