Read For Free Last Night I Sang To The Monster Penned By Benjamin Alire Sáenz Shared As Copy
Alire Sáenz es, sin duda alguna, uno de mis autores favoritos, y aunque es difícil saberlo, porque a lo largo de la vida elegir libros y autores favoritos puede ser difícil y complejo, lo sé.
Mejor dicho, lo siento. Cada que leo sus palabras e historias vuelvo a un lugar dentro de mi que me hace sentir demasiado.
Este libro nos habla de la historia de Zach, un chico con problemas familiares y adicciones, que no sabe como llego a un centro de AA Alcohólicos anónimos , que fue lo llevo ahí y por qué parece que cada día su vida deja de avanzar y un monstruo lo arrastra para devorarlo.
Con personajes con problemas y traumas bastante serios, el autor no hace viajar por los miedos de muchos de ellos, y aunque en algunas situaciones es bastante repetitivo, puedo asegurar que no se vuelve tedioso ni pesado de leer.
Los personajes se sienten reales y sientes todo el dolor por el que están pasando por la forma en la que Benjamin narra los sucesos.
Crear personajes como estos puede parecer fácil, pero es una batalla constantes con los fantasmas del pasado de aquellos que los crean.
Creados de guerras, de batallas perdidas, de complejidades personales, los personajes en este libro son de lo que más rescato.
La historia no es orignial ni diferente a otras que podamos conocer, pero sé que mucho de lo que tenemos en este libro es rescatado por la pluma del autor y las hermosas imágenes que crea.
Soy de las personas que les gusta las cosas tristes, Este es un libro muy muy muy triste que con sólo leer el inicio sabrás que tu corazón se romperá en pedazos durante el transcurso de superación, o no, de los personajes.
Bejamin lo ha vuelto a hacer, y probablemente lo seguirá haciendo, Siempre toca esas fibras que nadie hace, Me provoca escribir en el libro como si fuera una libreta de anotaciones personales, También los llantos de lectores sensibles no quedaran atrás en este libro,
Pensé demasiado en ponerle cuatro estrellas por algunos detalles que no me gustaron, Como información innecesaria o personajes irrelevantes, pero le dejo lasporque es Benjamin, por la ambientación de tristeza que presenta, porque se mantiene fiel a su estilo, por Rafael y porque me hizo saber que está escrito en mi corazón.
update: I'm a rarestar person, It has to be an overall good book with a decent plot, sympathetic characters, unobtrusive language and a satisfying ending.
And above all else, it should be believable, This book had it all for me,
As for a satisfying ending, some people like nonendings, like how "The Giver" ended, Some people, like G. R. R. Martin wants everyone dead and long forgotten as time marches on, I, more or less, like happy endings,
And believable, even if its paranormal/mythical, there is that suspension of disbelief that you either have it or you don't.
I'm not big about picking quotes from a book to sum up my thoughts, but this author, just wow.
It's between Zach and Adam, the counselor,
"But look, Zach, another part of you lived, You lived, Zach. "
"You're crying," I said,
"That happens sometimes," he said,
We both sat there for a long time, not saying anything,
"When Rafael was talking about his son, you cried then too, "
"Yeah, I cried. "
"Do we hurt you"
"No, You move me, Zach. "
That's a beautiful thing, That's what I wanted to say, but I didn't say that, I didn't say anything.
Like I said, I almost didn't get past pg,. Tiny print, and just a bunch of sadness,
Push through it, and see a boy broken into a million pieces scooped up and slowly reformed.
Almost done with this one, and it almost made me late to work today,
Sometimes, a sad book makes you just sad for the world, or sad for yourself, Not this one, and not for me at least,
Don't get me wrong: this is a really heartbreaking book, The sadness is just imbued into each and every conversation with the characters and all the internal dialogue,
While the thing going on with Zach is that he can't remember what happened before he got there, you just know it's so terrible that his body won't let him remember.
Very powerfully written and lyrically beautiful, and this is coming from a book reviewer who doesn't like flowery language and forced prose.
. . but this is just. . wow.
more to come when I finish today, I found this to be a little too simplistic for me, A lot of the dialogue felt repetitive, and it wasn't until near the ending that I learned what had happened to the main character.
While this may not be a bad thing, it felt like much of the story was "filler" until I got there.
Might be a better read for a younger person, This was a very dark, depressing, disturbing book, Yet, it was also beautiful and bittersweet,
Zach finds himself in a rehabilitation facility with no memory of his past, He struggles with
the monster living in his dreams and inhabiting his thoughts, There are people that help him though like his therapist Adam, who is always the optimist, and his roommate Rafael, ayearold man with the eyes of a young boy.
Through his time at the treatment center he tries to conquer his isolation and vanquish his fear of the monster.
Interestingly enough, the author of this book is also a poet, Saenz's writing was very unique it flowed like effortless poetry rendered into prose, and each page carried great thought and meaning.
Zach's story was so, so sad, but there's enough hope in the book to keep readers flipping the pages.
Sometimes there was a bit too much metaphor and thought though a few of Zack's mental wanderings could have been trimmed.
There were a few dull moments here and there, but nothing too boring,
A very melancholy novel with an ultimately uplifting message about alcoholism and selfesteem, I definitely did not plan on reading this, But from the moment i began it was so well written that it just sort of pulled me in.
All i am going to say is that its really different from regular YA in a good way, And i was so pleased with the ending, . . Anyway basically it really helps me to see what others are going through and how little things can have huge effects and the reasons people may turn to drugs and the like.
How important family life and growing up is to the children and where it can lead if not done well.
But this book also shows that things can get better with time even when it seems not, I reread one of my most favorite YAs ever, I know a lot of people adore Ari amp Dante and I love them too, but Zach with his pieces of paper has always a little piece of my heart.
The thing is that I only remember my past life in little pieces, Theres a piece here and theres another piece over there, There are pieces of paper scattered everywhere on the floor of my brain,
All the pieces of paper I have on the floor of my brain are flying around like birds gone crazy and Im torn up as hell and Im running and running and it seems though Ill be running forever.
I was perfect, Thats how I felt. I felt like I was a perfect human being, . . My heart didnt have all those pieces of paper anymoreit had leaves, A thousand summer leaves. Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate, He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there.
He's not sure he wants to remember, Something bad must have happened, Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive well, what's up with that
I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts.
See, on some people's hearts he writes Happy and on some people's hearts he writes Sad and on some people's hearts he writes Crazy on some people's hearts he writes Genius and on some people's hearts he writes Angry and on some people's hearts he writes Winner and on some people's hearts he writes Loser.
It's all like a game to him, Him. God. And it's all pretty much random, He takes out his pen and starts writing on our blank hearts, When it came to my turn, he wrote Sad, I don't like God very much, Apparently he doesn't like me very much either, I loved it!! The first half maybe just a tad bit more, The second half involved more crying on my part and the whole trauma thing which was covered in mystery till then was revealed and it wasn't nearly as fucked up as I'd imagined ignoring what that possibly tells about my psyche.
What actually happened was fucked up nonetheless, not saying trauma can be measured,
One of my theories was that maybe Zach had killed his parents and Santiago and was just dreaming it was his brother.
It apparently explained the reason why he blocked out his memories to me,
There wasn't actual MM stuff but he did find love in that place which I really loved.
I'm especially a sucker for "all who are blood are not family, the ones who love you for who you are" so partly why I loved it.
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