Just a quick post to talk about this extraordinary novel 'A Monster Calls' By Patrick Ness. I just finished
reading this book two nights ago and its one of the most powerful things I have
read, harrowing, deeply moving and full of wrenching truths, it totally floored
me.
The last few chapters
reduced me to tears and left me shaking, yet it is told with such compassion and strength and depth
of understanding. The story of this is sadly very close to the bone for some
dear friends of mine right now... they are still fighting but I don't know for
how long.
Its an extraordinary, genius
book, and I have to thank Jackie Morris for bringing it to my awareness in her review of it on her blog here.
The illustrations fill me with
uneasy awe, they are perfect and I love them. All the more powerful for being
black and white. Just looking at them makes my heart turn over with the wonderful wild presence of the monster and all the currents of emotion they carry.
I'll have to read this. It sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteThe book you mention was based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer before she could write the book. I've read Siobhan Dowd's "Bog Child" -- which I highly recommend, BTW. I'll add this one to my list for when I feel strong enough to read about monsters. . .
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