Thursday, September 15, 2011
Elsewhere Report
I am reading a book called Elsewhere. It is by Gabrielle Zevin. I have never read a book by her before. I just started reading this book. I got this book because I thought the back sounded interesting. The book is about a girl named Liz who wakes up one day in a place where there is a girl sleeping on a bunk on top of her and she doesn't know where she is. She thinks she is dreaming but she is not. The girl wakes up and asks Liz why don't you have any hair on your head. The girls name is Thandi. Then Liz suddenly remembers her mom shaving her head. Then she remembers being in a car accident. When she wakes up she still keeps thinking that she is dreaming. She goes to breakfast with the girl named Thandi. They realize they are on a boat going down the Nile river, like a cruise. At breakfast they notice that everyone else is alot older than them and they are wondering why. I know the book is going to be about Liz being dead, but Liz does not know yet that she is dead is she is going to have to adapt to not being alive. I think Liz is an interesting character and I'm very excited to find out what is going to happen in this story.
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Dear Danielle,
ReplyDeleteElsewhere seems like a very good book. To me its seems like a book that will keep my mind working! Its is kind of like the Westing Game, because there is a lot of conflicts that are going on. I am excited to hear you tell me how Elsewhere ends!
-Katrina
This sounds like a very fascinating book. It seems so interesting to think you're dreaming, but you're not, and to think you're alive, but you're dead. It's like two different twists. I want to know how Liz will handle this, and when she realizes she is dead.
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This does sound like they are in the middle of the journey to an underworld of sorts, doesn't it? There is that Egyptian Book of the Dead motif - the boat ride, the shaved heads, the car accident, the old people -
ReplyDeleteLet me know how the author brings about the realization in Liz and Thandi. Who figures it out? Or are they told? When it gets to the weighting of their lives, I'll be curious how that is handled.
And just when I thought we hadn't begin to fully explore the ghost genre - here comes an interesting entry into the Aware Dead category of fiction.
Thanks for bringing this book to us.
Wow this sounds like a really good book. Slightly confusing but really exciting! Great job danielle!
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