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YA Book Club recap by Kara Eng,\u00a0grade 11<\/p>\n
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For October YA Book Club, we read All the Bright Places<\/em> by Jennifer Niven.<\/p>\n We discussed different aspects of the book. We decided that the romance was fairly conventional with the whole \u201ctwo broken teenage who meet each other. Who fixes whom?\u201d There were some problems with characters as well. Most believed that Niven did not cultivate characters very well. The main characters were well written and believable, but all periphery characters were underdeveloped. But, because these characters acted so realistically, you couldn\u2019t hate them. We\u00a0talked about the themes of the book, coming to a conclusion that it made serious topics more human. Depression, bipolar disorder, suicide, and family abuse\/negligence became more realistic and approachable thanks to Finch and Violet. Finch\u2019s struggle with labels also struck a chord with many. Many members of the YA Book Club talked about how they\u2019ve been labeled throughout their lives and how Finch\u2019s conflict with people trying to categorize him has happened to them. We\u00a0also took issue with Violet\u2019s scavenger hunt, saying that it made an otherwise unconventional novel pretty cliche.<\/p>\n Overall, we\u00a0really liked All the Bright Places<\/em>, saying that the novel takes mundane things and makes them wonderful.<\/p>\n We gave the novel an average of 4.6\/5 stars.<\/p>\n This meeting was moderated by Kara Eng, grade 11, from the Teen Advisory Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YA Book Club recap by Kara Eng,\u00a0grade 11 For October YA Book Club, we read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. We discussed different aspects of the book. We decided that the romance was fairly conventional with the whole \u201ctwo broken teenage who meet each other. Who fixes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[49,145],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews","tag-book-club","tag-teen-facilitated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2015\/06\/allthebrightplaces.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-CG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3895,"url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2017\/ya-book-club-holding-up-the-universe\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":0},"title":"Holding up the Universe — YA Book Club","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"May 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"recap by Madison Comick, age 15 Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven A couple of Novembers ago, YA Book Club read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. 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