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So Many Ways To Begin by John Mcgregor
Based on the book that I’ve read in the school holidays, I think this book is really good for teenagers because it is an audacious book. This book is really adventurous and written in a kind of tumbling free-verse that can turn the opening into an onomatopoeic riot. It is a wonderful book.
This book is really subtle, clever and affecting. It is about David Carter who is a long-serving curator at the municipal museum in Coventry. As vocations go, it may not sound thrilling, but David has been fascinated by the musty scents and polished floors of museums since an early age. For a budding local-history anorak, post war Coventry is a wonderland. He begins to hoard old bullets, lost keys, pieces of shrapnel, cataloguing each item and fantasising about the day when he will open his own museum. He’s personal collection provides the framework for this book , ( a sequence of fragmented, non-chronological chapters, ranging through several generations )of the Carter family, each passage inspired by a souvenir or relic from the annals of family life.
I love this book because it underplays even the most emotional scenes and has an excruciatingly un dramatic view of reality. In the end, this moving and honest book becomes a defence of story telling for its own sake. I think this book is really suitable for teenagers because it gives positive moral values.
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