David Almond
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.91 | 4104 Users | 582 Reviews
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| Original Title: | My Name Is Mina |
| ISBN: | 0340997257 (ISBN13: 9780340997253) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.davidalmond.com/books/details.html |
| Series: | Skellig #0.5 |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Kinderbuch (2012), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2012) |
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There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her journal, and through her stories and poems there grows an opus of her life - her lessons, her loves, her beliefs, her mum, her dad, her thoughts and her dreams. In this stunningly designed book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig. From the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award comes the extraordinary prequel to the award-winning Skellig.Itemize Containing Books My Name Is Mina (Skellig #0.5)
| Title | : | My Name Is Mina (Skellig #0.5) |
| Author | : | David Almond |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2010 by Hodder Children's Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Contemporary |
Rating Containing Books My Name Is Mina (Skellig #0.5)
Ratings: 3.91 From 4104 Users | 582 ReviewsAssess Containing Books My Name Is Mina (Skellig #0.5)
Reading this aloud to Tess at bedtime. Earlier we read Skellig by David Almond, and this is the prequel to that.Now finished reading it to Tess - we both enjoyed it. Tess is drawn to characters who, in some way, remind her of herself. I think she loves hearing these stories and figuring things out about life in the process. I do too. I love her questions and her contentedness as I read. And when I believe she might have drifted off, but she surprises with at a funny part with a big laugh. We'llDo you ever have the urge to write an author and transcriptionally hug and kiss them because of your profound gratitude for their having been born and having written this one particular book? I usually hug the book instead. And Ive been hugging My Name is Mina the past few days. I should really write those living authors. I should write to David Almond.Id heard of My Name is Mina in passing. I think it was in a manner of whispers from the Lucky Day shelf in Juvenile Fiction at the Library. I
A frustrating journal, but an interesting character It pains me to give this such a low rating because I have very mixed feeling about it. I appreciate the idea behind it, but it is not very enjoyable to read. This is not a novel or a straightforward narrative, but a journal of a young girl called Mina. She is a character in Skellig which is a book I really enjoyed. This is her journal prior to the events of Skellig and it feels completely, and utterly, unnecessary. Mina is a complete outcast
Pretty, but overhyped. Considering this is supposedly Mina's diary, nothing much is really revealed about her that we can't already guess from Skellig. It's an almost pure 'feelings' book, more whimsy and form than actual content. As such it is, admittedly, quite delightful in parts, but unless you're someone particularly organized and grown up I doubt it's going to even slightly unsettle your world.As someone rather not organized and only occasionally grown up, the most I gathered from reading
I read Skellig when I was at school and I enjoyed it, but I didn't totally love it. The story did stay with me though and so I thought I'd give this a try - I'm really glad that I did. Mina is such a wonderful, interesting and quite a complex character. Almond's writing is almost lyrical in this book and it does feel very different to Skellig. Mina is unique as are her thoughts - she has a very intriguing look on the world and her way of expressing things in writing is interesting too. I haven't
"It's hard isn't it?' 'What?' 'Trying to discover how to be yourself." What a cute prequel this was! Narrated by Mina, the young girl we meet in Skellig. We get an insight into her home and school life; how most of the other kids think she is weird and strange. She spends most of her time in her tree in her front garden.The writing style is unlike anything I've read before - set out like her diary, with loads of random pages, bold font, capitals - exactly how you'd expect the mind of a child to
This book is marmite. For a lot of people, it's too rambling, too weird, too focused on what's going on inside Mina's head, too many exclamation marks and strange fonts and enlarged text. It's pointing a camera lens at ordinary stuff the way Mina sees them, and for lots of people, that's not okay. And that's fine. Different opinions, ect. But I love the rambling. I love the weirdness and the inside of Mina's head and the exclamation marks and the fonts and the texts, and it's a camera lens I
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