Friday, September 24, 2010

One of my choice reads

What my choice read was and I just finished was called Impossible.  To tell you the truth, it wasn't the best book for me, but maybe those who read this might find intrest.  It all starts out with this girl named lucy who lives a semi normal life with her foster parents.  What's not normal is that her crazy mother who lives on the streets named Miranda keeps popping up in her life.  Lucy doesn't know why and its driving her crazy because every time Miranda makes an appearance, it brings her whole family down.  This is because her parents were once friends with Miranda before she went crazy.  All Lucy knows is the folk song that Miranda always sings and Miranda told Lucy's Dad, before she went crazy, that she wanted Lucy to know the song too.  The song tells of nearly impossible tasks a woman must do for a man and if she doesn't then "she and all of her daughters will be treasures of mine".  One day Lucy finds Miranda's diary and everything falls into place.  The song that has haunted her from birth is a curse that each daughter that is a scaterbourgough (not sure if I spelled her last name right) has.  Every daughter gets pregnant at 17 and if she doesn't perform the tasks she too will go crazy.  This story tells of the struggles, and new truths of this one girl and when her old friend Zach comes to live with them from college..It just adds a whole knew level of realization for Lucy .  For me, I didn't like the whole crazy Mom part, it kind of made me sad. But I have to tell those who might look into this book, it gets better by the end, I swear!

1 comment:

Katy Barnicle said...

Gaby-

Great post. Why does the "crazy mom part" make you sad?