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Bezig met laden... Outside Indoor Sarah Ellis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A mysterious stranger prompts a girl to consider what are the most important things life and figure out the true meaning of family and friendship. Thoughtful and provocative. ( ) Sarah Ellis' Outside In is her seventeenth novel for young readers, and readers who discover her through this unusual work will undoubtedly be keen to investigate her backlist. The cover captures the hint of mystery which lurks beneath the story, for Lynn encounters Blossom and immediately questions present themselves. "Either this extremely ordinary-looking person in a school uniform was a nutbar, or the world had become like one of those fantasy trilogies that Shakti liked to read and which were Lynn’s least favourite books. Maybe this person was a glurb and she had an amulet that had to be restored to the true Druid princess or some such, and wouldn’t it just be Lynn’s luck if it turns out by some horrible cosmic joke that the world was really like that. She would have to go and lie down in the tundra somewhere and just give up." There are some humourous touches like that, too, as Lynn tries to make sense of what she is seeing. And, along the way, some social commentary. How does one define real in a world which is dominated by the virtual? "Did Blossom and her family really exist? Lynn experienced a wave of doubt as she glanced around before running her key across the metal screen at the edge of the reservoir. No Phone. No email. No street address. Did Blossom even have a last name? For Pete’s sake, it would be easier to confirm that Celia’s guinea pigs, stars of their own YouTube movies, existed." Blossom doesn't leave a trail behind her which is easy for Lynn to spot and contemporary readers will face the same challenges following her breadcrumbs. Is she a fantastic creature of sorts? Or does she just live her life in a way which seems fantastic to onlookers living in a mainstream existence complete with pets on YouTube? "We reorder things. We collect recycling and take it back to where it is useful. We pull up weeds and put them in the compost where they turn into dirt to grow more things. And something we just fancy things up." These are not fantastic concepts to be sure. But there is some complex thinking behind these everyday save-the-Earth aspects of the story. "“The game’s not worth the candle.” “What does that mean?” “It’s from card games from long ago. The chances of winning are not worth the cost of burning a candle to light the game.” And along the way, a number of valuable issues are raised. Out of context, these quotes could suggest that the book is preachy, but that's not the case. “But there are so many things in the world already. Did you know that there is a billion square feet of self-storage in America? That’s a billion square feet of stuff that nobody is using. There are already enough things without making new ones. We can just use what we’ve got. Fix it and use it. All this racing around earning and shopping and saving. It’s all just dancing for doughnuts.” There is perhaps an overly-wholesome feel to some of the story's language ('nutbar' and 'for Pete's sake' hearken to the 1950s kids' books I grew up reading) but the talk of candles and games is embedded solidly in story. As an introduction to this critically acclaimed author's works, it is an impressive ambassador. This review originally appeared on BuriedInPrint. Teenaged Lynn meets "Underlander" Blossom, who lives a secret life off the grid with her scavenging, cobbled-together "family": ex-physicist Fossick, autistic Larch, and fascinating, beautiful Tron. Lynn is fascinated by Blossom's secret, alternative lifestyle, which threatens to be exposed, and possibly destroyed, by Lynn's participation in an "Underlander" event which is filmed. An interesting idea, capably written about, yet somehow underwhelming. Surely a better cover could have been designed. I don't understand the choice of this one at all! Outside In by Sarah Ellis is about Lynn's struggle to find normalcy in her life. Lynn keeps her life busy with choir practice, school, and shopping. But home is the worst, her mother, Lynn, can't keep it together. The house needs repairs, her choir trip has to be canceled because of paperwork she's forgotten to mail, and Lynn feels like the adult in the relationship (and she always has). When Lynn is stuck in Vancouver while her choir goes to the United States to compete, she is introduced to a side of the city she didn't know existed. Lynn meets a girl on the bus who is living off the grid. The girl lives with her family as "underlanders" instead of like the "citizens." Outside In to me is the Canadian Neverwhere. It's not as firmly planted in the fantasy realm as Gaiman's novel, but there is an emotional kinship. Both are about homelessness and how those who aren't homeless see those who are as less than human. To others, they are even invisible. Both these books cast a light on homelessness — in London and Vancouver (and Burnaby) — and bring the humanity back into the equation. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Lynn's life is full ?? choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family ?? both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn's own. Blossom's family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. The Underlanders forage and trade for the things they need ("Is it useful or lovely?"), living off the things "Citizens" throw away. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. But when she inadvertently reveals their secret, she is forced to take measure of her own motives and lifestyle, as she figures out what it really means to be a family, and a friend. Classic Sarah Ellis, this novel is smart, rich, engaging and insightful Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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