• About
  • Goodreads reading challenge

Odds and bobs and bits and bookends.

~ Books, book quotes, writing, life.

Odds and bobs and bits and bookends.

Tag Archives: adult

How to ruin a novel with your own expectations: The Virgin Suicides and me

28 Wednesday Nov 2012

Posted by oddsandbookbobs in Books

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

adult, book, book expectations, books, death, expectations, fiction, imaginings, jeffrey eugenides, life, Lisbon sisters, mental health, novels, reading, sisters, suicide, the virgin suicides, young adult, young adult fiction

I’d wanted to read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides for a long time. Ever since I saw the cover, the word ‘suicide’ above a young girl lying on a patch of bright green grass, brown shoes, white tights and a pink dress conveying her youth and innocence, I was intrigued.

I’d heard it was really good, great, amazing and had seen book posters proclaiming it “bewitching” (Vogue) and even “one of the finest novels in many years – a Catcher in the Rye for our time” (Observer). And so it came to pass that instead of picking up a copy and turning to the blurb or searching for the synopsis on Wikipedia, I imagined what I thought the novel was about.

Continue reading →

Advertisements

Recent Posts

  • What’s the point of Creative Writing?
  • Book characters that reflect yourself – Quentin in ‘Paper Towns’
  • The Bookcase of Forgotten Books: Books I Own But Haven’t Read
  • Top Ten Bookish Resolutions for 2013
  • {Booker} Award!!!

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 54 other followers

Archives

  • July 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012

Books Life

adult all quiet on the western front before i die book book expectations book quotes book review books bret easton ellis Catching Fire counselling creative writing degree expectations fahrenheit 451 fanfiction favourite fiction gale graduate graduation hard hard times haruki murakami hull university imaginings jeffrey eugenides jenny downham john green katniss life list lists looking for alaska love lunar park mental health mildly traumatising incidents Mockingjay non-fiction Norwegian wood novelists novels paper towns peeta quotes reading reading list resolution romance sputnik sweetheart student student life suicide suzanne collins teaser tuesdays The Hunger Games the perks of being a wallflower the secret history the shadow of the wind the virgin suicides thoughts on top ten top ten tuesday trains trilogy twin twins university winnie the pooh writing WWW Wednesdays WWW_Wednesdays young adult young adult fiction

Blogroll

  • BBC Happiness formula
  • Brene Brown: Listening to shame
  • Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
  • J. K. Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
  • Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter

Goodreads

Blogs I Follow

Advertisements

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Thought Catalog

Thought Catalog is a digital youth culture magazine dedicated to your stories and ideas.

Brontosaurus Books

Books and dinosaurs...what's not to like?

... we made our home in between the pages of books

New Books in Brief

Keeping you connected to the best ideas in the world of new non-fiction

Book to the Future

More book than a mad 'orse

The Unread Book

It's about the untouched books waiting to be read!

Books Without Any Pictures

Keirsey Blog

Brought to you by the Keirsey Magazine

The Tall, Dark, and Bookish

Books, rants, and whatnot: Let my fingers to the talking.

(write it!)

Have Book Will Read

Live to Write - Write to Live

We live to write and write to live ... professional writers talk about the craft and business of writing

UnTangled

tell a redemptive story with your life. now.

Thinking and Dreaming

Leave the world a better place….

Psychology Teaching Ideas

A blog for teachers of AS and A Level Psychology

Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy