Aşk-I Sükun - Nuriye Çeleğen itibaren Timaş Yayınları içinde LIT biçim

Jennifer Proud _ennifer_roud — Lahiri just has such a great tone to her writing. This collection of short stories were again, beautifully written. I especially liked the second half which gave the reader a collection of short stories with the same two main characters.

Irmali Franco _173e5 — They need a new category on Goodreads for "tried-to-read." I may try this again, but it really felt like lad lit with an older protagonist. I really like Sarvas' blog, and perhaps that's why I expected more from his novel. The present tense didn't really work for me either (felt like writing class writing), but he knows how to use free indirect style quite well. If you do like lad lit, then this may be your thing; however, it was not mine. I expect Sarvas has a promising career ahead of him, but I may not be one of his readers.

Madhan Raghavan maddy27 — summer reading

Hasan Erdem kadikoyantikaalanlar — Catherine is a twelve year old girl whose little brother, David, has autism. On one hand she is fiercely protective of him but on the other, she is mortified when he does embarrassing things that could potentially mess up her relationships. She doesn't give her friends nearly enough credit in understanding about David, but she's been burned in the past. To help David be less embarassing, Catherine writes him rules about day-to-day life. No toys in the fish tank. It's ok to yell on the playground, but not during dinner. Over time, a lot of these rules are obviously more for Catherine than for David. Catherine's best friend is away is away for the summer and there's a new family moving in next door. Catherine has high hopes for her friendship with Kristi, but, like real life, not everything goes as she wished it would--and that's not necessarily a bad thing. When Catherine accompanies David to therapy, she meets Jason, who is in a wheel chair and can't talk. Jason has a book of cards with pictures and words that he points to in order to communicate. Catherine starts drawing him more cards, including nebulous concepts like "murky" and "unfair". Catherine again tries to balance fitting in with her "normal" friends and classmates, and her friendship with Jason. Jason was a really interesting character that continued to surprise me, and I wish we saw even more of him. One of my favorite parts of this book were when Catherine was trying to figure out what to draw for abstract ideas. My other favorite part was the struggle Catherine had in trying to be understanding of David, but feeling overshadowed by him in the family dynamic and needing her parents to sometimes focus exclusively on her. I think it was a very real, if not pretty, look at what it means to be in a family with someone who requires so much attention and energy. I also liked how, when David couldn't put his thoughts and feelings into words, would quote extensively from the Frog and Toad books by Lobel. It was heartbreaking and hilarious. My main quibble is with the ending-- it was overly tidy and neat while at the same time not really solving anything. It tarnished the rest of the wonderful book for me.