The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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3.5 stars
I'm so stoked about this book! Read! I can't formulate a proper review, but it's awesome. It's awesomely written, the characters are unique and so well rounded, with their flaws and everything. Which makes the whole story amazing. Plus even though it is a lesbian book, about her coming of age and figuring stuff out, I feel like it's not really about that at all. Her being gay I mean. It's so much more. But I only just realized this in the last few pages. It was awesome all the way through but I only realized then that it was so much deeper than I originally thought. Also made me think a lot. And those are my favorite kind of books anyway, that leave me in this contemplating mood. Like I learned something new and this influences how I see stuff. Though I can't really grasp what exactly it is. I guess it's just seeing the world through someone elses eyes (in this case Camerons). Anyway, getting a bit off track here. I'd recommend it, I loved it.
miss emily danforth, you earned yourself a new fan
complete review: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.com/ Instagram: isleepnaked MY OPINION/THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK Upcoming Movie adaption talk This book has been featured in most LGBTQ* book recommendation lists I've read or seen so it's been on my mind for quite a while already. There are far less LGBTQ* books featuring stories about queer girls/women than there are about queer boys/men and so I definitely wanted to read this book which features a queer teenage girl. Before I read this book I knew two things about it - that it's about a queer girl and one other thing that made me struggle with wanting to read it. I'm not going to mention this other thing because it isn't mentioned on the back of the book and it also takes the book about 250 of its almost 500 pages to get to that point. So I would say that the book is definitely not only about that. When you hear anyone talking about the book or when you watch the trailer for the movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz, this one thing is basically the only thing that gets talked about when mentioning this story - and after reading this book I'm actually quite sad that that is the case because I'd say that I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half and from what the movie trailer shows, the movie seems to heavily focus on the second part. Now, if you want to know what I'm trying to not talk about here, than just watch the movie trailer and you'll spoil yourself for the second half of the book but probably not really for the movie. I mean I guess when you have to squeeze an almost 500 pages book into a 2 hour movie you have to put more focus on the second part but I'm not too sure what to think of a movie only focusing on that - so I hope the movie will surprise me positively after all. So the upcoming movie was also the reason why I now finally decided to read this book - because I always like to read the book before the movie if I plan on watching the movie. But enough talk about that movie adaption - let's talk about the book and my reading experience. My reading experience So, as I've said many times before, I'm a sucker for short chapters in a book. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case at all with this book. Its chapters were insanely long and since I always like to peek at the chapter's end and how long it will take me to get there, the fact that the chapters were always 20 to 30 pages long was quite daunting. BUT I still managed to finish the book in quite a short time concerning this fact which was thanks to the writing style. I really enjoyed the storytelling of this book. Although there were some passages in it that felt a bit unnecessary and too rambled - overall I could really sink into the story and enjoyed reading it. Even though the book plays over a long time and includes different seasons, it definitely had a summery-feeling about it that I really enjoyed since I read it during the hottest days of the year and since I always like it when a book feels quite fitting to the time of the year that I'm reading it in. Cameron spent a lot of time outside, described the feeling of summer in detail and also went swimming quite often - and swimming was also a factor that was important throughout the entire book. That's also why I loved the first half of the book more than the second half because the first half really felt like that summer dizziness when it feels like the hot days are never ending and you just enjoy every bit of it. The book started with the main character, Cameron, and her best friend, Irene, being very young - 11 years only. This felt a bit strange to me at first because I thought that I was way too old to be reading about a story about such young kids - but then I thought that I also adore Harry Potter and that he's also only 10 at the beginning of the first book and then I also remembered what I was like when I was 11 years old and that I was actually not that different to Cameron at that age. Still, I was glad that the book is set over a great period of time in Cameron's life and that she doesn't stay that young throughout the whole story. I found Cameron to be a very fascinating character and liked her - although I also felt like I never got to fully know her throughout the book. It always felt like she still had a wall up and didn't even let the reader in on all of her thoughts. But that also made her interesting and complex and layered which are characteristics that I always like in a book character. Cameron had different passions, next to her swimming hobby, that I found really interesting and enjoyed reading about a lot. For once there was her doll house that was beautifully described and that made me wish I still had my doll house in my room. I loved that the doll house played a small but important role throughout the whole book and I really hope that it will appear in the movie aswell. And Cameron also had a movie obsession and a lot of enthusiasm for movies in general. Sadly, since Cameron's story is set in the past, I didn't know all the movies that she mentioned and have only seen very few of them, but I still really enjoyed her love for films and what she took from them and the way that she educated herself through them. I could relate a lot to her in that aspect because I also used to do that a lot and I guess I still do. Cameron's closest relationship was probably with her grandma and it was really lovely to see that. They had a beautiful dynamic and I wish that there had been even more scenes between the two in the book and I really hope that the movie will manage to portray this bond in a great way aswell. When I read an LGBTQ* book, I expect that it delivers queerness and I was very satisfied that THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST did that right from the beginning. I was actually quite surprised that the book, since it is set in the past, had characters in it that talked very openly about gayness and in a way that a conversation might happen today aswell. I really enjoyed that Cameron got a friend that acted as her "gay mentor" and educated Cameron on queer culture. CONCLUSION So, overall I definitely enjoyed this book. I really liked its storytelling, found its main character Cameron to be very interesting, fascinating and layered and was also quite satisfied with the amount of LGBTQ* content in it. I watched the movie trailer after I've finished the book because I didn't want to have faces for the characters in my head and know as little of the story as possible beforehand. And although I knew while reading it that Chloe Grace Moretz would play Cameron, I didn't really picture Cameron with her face while reading it. Now that I've watched the trailer I must say that I'm not too excited about the movie because it seems to mainly focus on the second half of the book and I think that that does the book injustice because it's much more than that. But trailers can also deceive, so I hope that the movie will still surprise me in a positive way. RATING I enjoyed the book and am glad that I read it but I didn't love it and it frustrated me a bit that I felt like I never got to fully know Cameron.
SO. BORING. rtc _____________________ This book was horribly boring. Absolutely nothing happened, except that the teens smoked weed. The storyline went nowhere. I couldn’t tell the characters apart because they were all incredibly flat. I thought the book might pick up pace when Cameron starts conversion therapy, but she also smoked a lot of weed there. I can’t recall her ever doing anything else. I constantly expected a big change, more action or a plot twist. Adding to that, it wasn’t even well written. Considering the fact that it took me years to pick up this book, it wasn’t even worth it. Could have spent my time reading something better.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
3.5 stars
I'm so stoked about this book! Read! I can't formulate a proper review, but it's awesome. It's awesomely written, the characters are unique and so well rounded, with their flaws and everything. Which makes the whole story amazing. Plus even though it is a lesbian book, about her coming of age and figuring stuff out, I feel like it's not really about that at all. Her being gay I mean. It's so much more. But I only just realized this in the last few pages. It was awesome all the way through but I only realized then that it was so much deeper than I originally thought. Also made me think a lot. And those are my favorite kind of books anyway, that leave me in this contemplating mood. Like I learned something new and this influences how I see stuff. Though I can't really grasp what exactly it is. I guess it's just seeing the world through someone elses eyes (in this case Camerons). Anyway, getting a bit off track here. I'd recommend it, I loved it.
miss emily danforth, you earned yourself a new fan
complete review: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.com/ Instagram: isleepnaked MY OPINION/THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK Upcoming Movie adaption talk This book has been featured in most LGBTQ* book recommendation lists I've read or seen so it's been on my mind for quite a while already. There are far less LGBTQ* books featuring stories about queer girls/women than there are about queer boys/men and so I definitely wanted to read this book which features a queer teenage girl. Before I read this book I knew two things about it - that it's about a queer girl and one other thing that made me struggle with wanting to read it. I'm not going to mention this other thing because it isn't mentioned on the back of the book and it also takes the book about 250 of its almost 500 pages to get to that point. So I would say that the book is definitely not only about that. When you hear anyone talking about the book or when you watch the trailer for the movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz, this one thing is basically the only thing that gets talked about when mentioning this story - and after reading this book I'm actually quite sad that that is the case because I'd say that I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half and from what the movie trailer shows, the movie seems to heavily focus on the second part. Now, if you want to know what I'm trying to not talk about here, than just watch the movie trailer and you'll spoil yourself for the second half of the book but probably not really for the movie. I mean I guess when you have to squeeze an almost 500 pages book into a 2 hour movie you have to put more focus on the second part but I'm not too sure what to think of a movie only focusing on that - so I hope the movie will surprise me positively after all. So the upcoming movie was also the reason why I now finally decided to read this book - because I always like to read the book before the movie if I plan on watching the movie. But enough talk about that movie adaption - let's talk about the book and my reading experience. My reading experience So, as I've said many times before, I'm a sucker for short chapters in a book. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case at all with this book. Its chapters were insanely long and since I always like to peek at the chapter's end and how long it will take me to get there, the fact that the chapters were always 20 to 30 pages long was quite daunting. BUT I still managed to finish the book in quite a short time concerning this fact which was thanks to the writing style. I really enjoyed the storytelling of this book. Although there were some passages in it that felt a bit unnecessary and too rambled - overall I could really sink into the story and enjoyed reading it. Even though the book plays over a long time and includes different seasons, it definitely had a summery-feeling about it that I really enjoyed since I read it during the hottest days of the year and since I always like it when a book feels quite fitting to the time of the year that I'm reading it in. Cameron spent a lot of time outside, described the feeling of summer in detail and also went swimming quite often - and swimming was also a factor that was important throughout the entire book. That's also why I loved the first half of the book more than the second half because the first half really felt like that summer dizziness when it feels like the hot days are never ending and you just enjoy every bit of it. The book started with the main character, Cameron, and her best friend, Irene, being very young - 11 years only. This felt a bit strange to me at first because I thought that I was way too old to be reading about a story about such young kids - but then I thought that I also adore Harry Potter and that he's also only 10 at the beginning of the first book and then I also remembered what I was like when I was 11 years old and that I was actually not that different to Cameron at that age. Still, I was glad that the book is set over a great period of time in Cameron's life and that she doesn't stay that young throughout the whole story. I found Cameron to be a very fascinating character and liked her - although I also felt like I never got to fully know her throughout the book. It always felt like she still had a wall up and didn't even let the reader in on all of her thoughts. But that also made her interesting and complex and layered which are characteristics that I always like in a book character. Cameron had different passions, next to her swimming hobby, that I found really interesting and enjoyed reading about a lot. For once there was her doll house that was beautifully described and that made me wish I still had my doll house in my room. I loved that the doll house played a small but important role throughout the whole book and I really hope that it will appear in the movie aswell. And Cameron also had a movie obsession and a lot of enthusiasm for movies in general. Sadly, since Cameron's story is set in the past, I didn't know all the movies that she mentioned and have only seen very few of them, but I still really enjoyed her love for films and what she took from them and the way that she educated herself through them. I could relate a lot to her in that aspect because I also used to do that a lot and I guess I still do. Cameron's closest relationship was probably with her grandma and it was really lovely to see that. They had a beautiful dynamic and I wish that there had been even more scenes between the two in the book and I really hope that the movie will manage to portray this bond in a great way aswell. When I read an LGBTQ* book, I expect that it delivers queerness and I was very satisfied that THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST did that right from the beginning. I was actually quite surprised that the book, since it is set in the past, had characters in it that talked very openly about gayness and in a way that a conversation might happen today aswell. I really enjoyed that Cameron got a friend that acted as her "gay mentor" and educated Cameron on queer culture. CONCLUSION So, overall I definitely enjoyed this book. I really liked its storytelling, found its main character Cameron to be very interesting, fascinating and layered and was also quite satisfied with the amount of LGBTQ* content in it. I watched the movie trailer after I've finished the book because I didn't want to have faces for the characters in my head and know as little of the story as possible beforehand. And although I knew while reading it that Chloe Grace Moretz would play Cameron, I didn't really picture Cameron with her face while reading it. Now that I've watched the trailer I must say that I'm not too excited about the movie because it seems to mainly focus on the second half of the book and I think that that does the book injustice because it's much more than that. But trailers can also deceive, so I hope that the movie will still surprise me in a positive way. RATING I enjoyed the book and am glad that I read it but I didn't love it and it frustrated me a bit that I felt like I never got to fully know Cameron.
SO. BORING. rtc _____________________ This book was horribly boring. Absolutely nothing happened, except that the teens smoked weed. The storyline went nowhere. I couldn’t tell the characters apart because they were all incredibly flat. I thought the book might pick up pace when Cameron starts conversion therapy, but she also smoked a lot of weed there. I can’t recall her ever doing anything else. I constantly expected a big change, more action or a plot twist. Adding to that, it wasn’t even well written. Considering the fact that it took me years to pick up this book, it wasn’t even worth it. Could have spent my time reading something better.