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El Cielo Está En Cualquier Lugar (2010)

by Jandy Nelson(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8444145254 (ISBN13: 9788444145259)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Everest

review 1: Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Jandy Nelson has moved me again with The Sky is Everywhere. Her writing was just as outstanding and lyrical as it was in I'll Give You the Sun, her style is magical and I love it so. I loved Lennie and it was a wonderful ride with her narrating the story. The story really did make my heart ache at times. I felt so much empathy for Lennie and her family, between both Bailey and her mother. I was so proud of Lennie for the person she became by the end of the book. That was some major character development and it was inspiring. Nelson added something extra in both of her novels that made them even more intriguing and enjoyable. In I'll Give You the Sun, it was Noah's portraits and the quotes Jude had from her grandmother's book. The Sky is Every... morewhere had Lennie's poems, that were mainly about Bailey, at the beginning and/or end of chapters. And they were so so so lovely. They fit in with the story so well and contributed so much to helping the reader better understand Lennie's feelings. Now on to what's really important (I'm only kind of joking), JOE FONTAINE. I loved him the minute we first met him with Lennie in the band room. He was so bright and interesting. Although he irritated me a bit at the end, he pulled through. The epilogue made me smile so big my mouth hurt it was SO FANTASTIC. Just like in Give You the Sun, the themes in this were powerful. I am lucky enough to not have had to cope with a major death in my family, but man I still felt so much. I know grief will be one of the most devastating emotions I will ever experience but it's something everyone has to deal with. The Sky is Everywhere did move me and I absolutely loved it, but I'll Give You the Sun is still my #1. For me, I don't think anything will top the masterpiece that is that exceptional book. Jandy Nelson has such a genuine gift in writing and story telling. I am ecstatic that I've found her books. I will most definitely be reading everything else she ever releases. Love.
review 2: This is an incredibly crafted book - engaging, funny, heart-rending, quirky, delightful, and realistic. I was reading it on a plane flight and about 50 pages in, I put it down, turned to my husband, and said, "I am going to be so sad when I've finished this." The poems that begin each chapter are a brilliant touch - they give us more of Lennie's depth, artistry, and grief without slowing down the narrative. They are 100 percent authentically adolescent, by which I mean they are raw and unapologetic and brave. Lennie is surrounded by a cast of characters whom, if I tried to describe them, would come across and weird and exaggerated, but in her world (told through her lens), they are colorful but grounded. And the pivotal scene with her grandmother is so necessary and brilliantly crafted that it brought me to tears. Jandy Nelson's restraint - her ability to make us see through Lennie's grief-warped eyes - makes Lennie's growth in the novel all the more poignant. I actually lent this book to a friend and then asked for it back the next day, just so I could study the craft of it more closely. You, too, will want to devour this book and also give it away, but you won't be able to part with it -- so do yourself a favor and buy two copies at the get-go. Seriously. Go do that. Now. less

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