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Summary: A wonderful sequal
Review: This book was wonderful, it really makes you think. I love the way you are reintroduced to your favorite characters from Homecoming. You should definatly read this book, but not before you read Homecoming
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Summary: ATTENTION INSOMNIACS !! THIS BOOK WILL DO THE TRICK.
Review: Whne I was younger (3rd,4th,5th grade) my mother would read a chapter of a book to me every night before I went to bed. When we picked Solitary Blue and settled into or normal routine, we were horrified. This deathly boring book drew my mother and I into deep slumber. Both of us are avid and articulate readers who are usually appreciative of all styles, but this book was bad, and I mean BAD. Maybe I was too young to appreciate this moaning boy and Cynthia Voight's drawn out, meandering and POINTLESS plot. But years later after tryin again, I still couldn't get past the 3/4 mark.
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Summary: Voigt has a command of the YA voice
Review: A moving coming of age story of a young boy and the struggle of coming to terms and an understanding that his mother's first love is not her son, but environmental causes. Jeff seeks solace in the creeks and waterways and comes to understand his father's own solitude as well as his own. This book is a realistic story about the redemptive nature of love. "It's easy to fall in love, but living love is a different thing."Do yourself a favor and read this book!
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Summary: It was very interesting, but the ending could be better.
Review: I thought the book was great. It could have been true, which is the kind of books I like. The ending should of been better. The book just kind of ended. Over all it was a wonderful book that I enjoyed reading!
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Summary: Read it three times in two months!
Review: i discovered this book late last summer as I was reading, looking for books to share with my 9th grade classes. I loved it and wanted to reread it immediately. I held off though long enough for school to start and used it as a realoud in two classes. The students and I had great discussions about parenting, love, and coping skills. I found something new each time I read a passage aloud. Great book for parents, too.
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Summary: very emotional and realistic
Review: i got this book for christmas when i was about 12 years old. i've read it many times over and over, and have yet to find another book that portrays how the nonpresence of a parent has such a strong impact on a child. my parents divorced when i was in second grade (same as jeff greene in the book) and my fathr is not around very often. i could relate to some of the problems that jeff had. i am 19 now, in college, and my copy of the book came with me...it's seen better days...i still cry every time i read it.
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Summary: It was really touching.....
Review: This was a great book. I really felt for Jeff. At first it was like he didn't really care much for his father, but had an obsession for his mother. By the middle of the book, that all changed. He couldn't take the pain that his mom was causing him. So instead, he looked towards his dad for love and companionship. I am a freshman in high school and I read this book for a book report. I think it was good, and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: An excellent novel for teenagers
Review: This is a really good book about a young boy named Jeff who has to grow up very fast after his mother walks out on him and his dad. Due to his mother walking out, Jeff becomes very quiet and intreverted and develops a low-self esteem. He battles to express any emotion. When he goes to visit his mother for the first time he is capturvated by her beauty and charm but on his second visit, Melody, his mother, emotionally wounds him. Jeff has an ear for music and loves playing his guitar. He is a very caring boy who will go along way to avoid hurting anybody's feelings. As Jeff matures he begins to get on better with his father, a History profffessor. His father eventually dedicates a book to Jeff. This is a really excellent book. It taught me a lot about human emotions. It definately gives the reader plenty to think about and the story is brilliantly thought out. Cynthia Voigt's use of subtlty in describing her characters is excellent. I highly recommend the book to teenagers.
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Summary: Strangely fascinating
Review: A Solitary Blue really fascinated me because of the way it wastold. There wasn't much dialogue at first, it just showed how Jeffgrew up, and the way it was so flatly written then as Jeff started to open up again and the story was more interactive and had more dialogue really pulled me into the story. I read this book and I've never read any other Voigt books, but it was very good.
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Summary: A good, well thought out book. Worth the read.
Review: A Solitary Blue is an excellent book, although I have toconfess that it's the last third of the book, after Jeff meets Dicey,that I like best. Dicey is such a wonderful character - she's so strong. Still, it is a good book, and definitely worth the read, on it's own or with the rest of the Tillerman books (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, The Runner, and Come a Stranger are the best, I think). Some of the images are very powerful - of the beach, and of the herons. There's a lot of thought behind the book, and it shows. There are no misplaced words. I recommend it.
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