21/12/2009 --
Gravity Review
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Gravity Review in the Bookshelf's "Off The Shelf"
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Here's a review of Gravity Brings Me Down by Laila Hawrylyshyn from the Bookshelf in Guelph.
Being odd and original doesn't make you a "weirdo." Some people may say so but what do they know about your life and the way you live it?
"I'm a bird flying overtop of everything." This is how Sioux Smith describes herself. And for her, all other people are monkeys following their great masters. Her life was as normal as it could ever get; she had her best friend Sharon, her friendly stalker, Tod, all the monkeys, teachers, her family - and then she met Mabel.
Mabel was special in her own way. When Sioux met Mabel, she thought she looked like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and that's what she called her until she found out her actual name. For Mabel, Sioux wasn't just a teenage girl that she randomly built a friendship with - she thought she was her youngest daughter Marie. Sioux let her continue to believe it, but not in a mean way, she just didn't want to break the lovely old lady's heart, or to ruin the friendship.
Natale Ghent expresses very well the life of a teenage girl who is completely lost in this world and finds help from the least expected person in this book. It's personally one of my favourite novels.
