The View from Saturday
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I read this when I was in 6th grade and it was one of the only books I can comprehend well while reading back then.
I STILL vividly remember this book to this day and bought my own copy last year I believe, I plan to re-read it again soon.
I just couldn't get into it. I gave it a good shot, but just didn't find it interesting.
This book kinda sorta was about a team of young middle school kids who work together and go to the Academic Bowl.
If this was a linear world, and this book was a documentary, that's what you'd say this book was about.
Instead, Konigsburg tells a circuitous story, of four misfits and their misfit teacher, who develop a friendship amid a hostile world. In the process, they not only create their own, kinder world, but they gentle the world around them.
Picked up an elementary school fave to see if it would get me out of a little reading slump and found myself weepy in the same way I was on my sixth grade carpet square
I originally read this when I was in sixth or seventh grade and I hated it. It's one of the few books from my childhood that I remember actually disliking. As I was rereading it this week, I understood why I didn't like it. The timeline would be a little hard to follow for a middle school student and there is so much that is hinted at, yet never stated outright which probably frustrated the part of me that likes everything to come out tied up neatly. Additionally, a big part of the book requires the reader to take a leap of faith and trust in the impossible. As soon as I got to that part this time around, I literally said aloud, “This why I hated this book so much.”
Now, I love this book! I'm usually drawn to quirky children in literature and this book is nothing if not full of quirky children. I recommend this book for adults who like kid lit.