Judy Blundell
Hardcover | Pages: 284 pages Rating: 3.52 | 13419 Users | 2029 Reviews
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| Original Title: | What I Saw And How I Lied |
| ISBN: | 0439903467 (ISBN13: 9780439903462) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Evie Spooner, Peter Coleridge, Joe Spooner |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2008) |
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When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.Mention Based On Books What I Saw and How I Lied
| Title | : | What I Saw and How I Lied |
| Author | : | Judy Blundell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 284 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2008 by Scholastic Press |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Teen. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.52 From 13419 Users | 2029 ReviewsJudge Based On Books What I Saw and How I Lied
There are good novels and then there are good novels. This one is the latter.However, it's hard to pin down why it's such an amazing novel. Sure, I could comment that the writing was flawless and brilliant. The characters were fleshed out, detailed and intricate. The setting was technicoloured, nostalgic and almost touchable.But I think what really makes this novel is the gritty, raw, awkwardness of it. Evie is on the cusp of womanhood. She's so close she can almost taste it and yet, she ranklesWhat I Heard and How I Lied is a coming of age novel set during the time period of post-World War II. The novel is full of nostalgic descriptions of full skirts, pumps dyed to match dresses, late afternoon cocktails, pot roast with mashed potatoes, smoking as sexy habit, and Palm Beach as an exotic location. What I Heard And How I Lied also addresses in a very subtle manner issues of segregation, anti-Semitism, soldiers recovery from war trauma, war time opportunism, gender roles, sexual
I normally really enjoy the National Book Award winners for Youth Literature (more so than the Newberys), but the National Book Award's streak has sort of ended for me. This one was good but nothing special like previous year's recipients.Set after World War II, 15-year-old Evie feels more like a kid than a mature woman. When her family takes an abrupt vacation to Florida, Evie sees this as her chance to transform herself into the woman she longs to be. She soon meets 23-year-old Peter, and
I read this book a bit earlier but couldn't post about it until now because it was part of a postal book swap. This book is interesting to me because Blundell is not interested in heroics. She shows adults, even "war heroes" as flawed - greedy, opportunistic, racist, etc. This is so much more true about parts of America, but rarely seen in YA literature!The setting of post-war Florida was pretty interesting. Evie as a character seems very real to me - that awkward time in life is so well
So many lies around me. Enough lies to fill ten houses. Its so hard to find morally gray books in YA fiction. I dont know if authors and their editors feel that the target audience wants characters to swing in only one direction (right or wrong), or if there is another underlying motive behind it. But I think that morally gray stories and characters are just as interesting to read about as ones that are fully good or fully bad. And with this book, you get the full scope of the fine line between
It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a girl like me. Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I LiedWhat every reader knows its that one may read a few not so good books..but it is all made worth it when you come across a gem. And that is what this little jewel of a book is. I adored this What I saw and how I lied. It is coming of age Historical Fiction and had such a plaintive tone to it.This is not just a post war novel or a young
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