Black Swan Green
Dec. 11th, 2006 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apparentparadoxI recently finished reading Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.
It was a very well written book about a year in the life of a 13 year old in England. It was sometimes difficult to read this book, because he really did a good job of representing teen-age angst. I would sometimes find my pulse racing as I got swept up in the story.
It's really a shame that old people like me can't really tell teen-agers anything. It would be wonderful to be able to say "what you're feeling now, it's really not as important as you may think". But, of course, at the time, it is that important.
Here are the last lines of the book, which I found a wonderful way to end the book:
It was a very well written book about a year in the life of a 13 year old in England. It was sometimes difficult to read this book, because he really did a good job of representing teen-age angst. I would sometimes find my pulse racing as I got swept up in the story.
It's really a shame that old people like me can't really tell teen-agers anything. It would be wonderful to be able to say "what you're feeling now, it's really not as important as you may think". But, of course, at the time, it is that important.
Here are the last lines of the book, which I found a wonderful way to end the book:
"It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace."
"It doesn't feel very all right."
"That's because it's not the end"