BOOK: FINDING ME
AUTHOR: BROOKLYN TAYLOR
I for one would recommend this book to anyone that wants to read it. this is an amazing book and I would read it again.First and foremost this is my first time reading anythingfrom this author. This author pulls me right into the book. Brooklyn writes very amazing books. As I am reading I truly have to wonder what gives a parent the right to treat their child or children the way this one parent did. Out of this book I am so happy that she has a relationship with her brother like she does. Her brother has always cared and always stood up for her. Its good to see siblings having that kind of relationship the most.
Thad tried to protect her and to stand up for her when it comes to her mom. Her mom will never be the kind of parent that Elisa needed her to be and she only wanted to think what she wanted. Elisa needed her mom to hear the truth about what happened with Bryan but she didnt she had thought that Elisa had lied. This one parent show more towards the one child brother and sometimes if not all the time that isnt good at all to show more favoritism towards one child and not towards the other one... This is the paragraph that kinda stuck out at me, Thad was talking to his wife and said " if you keep treating her as bad as you have, that I am going to do something about it. and that he will not longer tolerate it. and then Lisa spoke " that you will do no such thing because its not his business. There was two parents but the dad had passed away. So the mom was raising the girl and the boy on her own.
As a reader I feel that the single parent should treat both of her or his children the right way.Children are so important to this generation and in the past they make us parents treasure them everyday and to enjoy them. it feels like Thad was trying to protect his daughter from the way Lisa was treating her. A child doesn't deserve to be treated basically like crap. Up to Chapter 3 I already had formed my opinion about the mother. when reading chapter 3 I had tears flowing down my own checks as I read, On a personal feelings what that girl went though I had a personal experience inmy past. I feel for that girl.
As I am reading though chapter 11 there is a parahghrap that sticks out at me as I never heard it until I was reading and here is the parahgraph that sticks out at me, " But you have to ask yourself what you want, you are the one who makes your decisions and can make yourself miserable or happy, satisified or unsatisfied" and Terry was saying that to Ford and you know what he is so very right. We as adults can set our own paths in our lives to decide what we what and everything. But I have a weird kind of question to pose, what gives Shay the right to ask Elisa not to date or even have feelings for Ford when Shay likes " other guys" why doesnt she go and ask Luke out and let the feelings that Elisa was having towards Ford let them play out..
Wow that was a heartache when I read that Thad has Leukemia, her brother has cancer the only other person that has every protect Elisa from the way her mother treated her.
When I finished reading the book I finally broke down again crying because I felt so close to Elisa because I felt her pain and what she was going though and when her brother had passed way that brought back my own memory. My dad has passed away and I couldnt say good bye to him but he will always be in my heart because he is my dad.
I went and did some research because I never understood what Leukemia was until tonight so I went and looked it up for myself so I could understand it... Leukemia is: Leukemia is cancer of the blood and bone marrow (the soft material in the center of most bones).
