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Summary: A must read.
Review: I got this book at my schools bookfair, It looked intresting so I baught it. When I started to read it, I couldn't stop! It tells of how a girls big sister goes crazy, and how she has to deal with it. It tells of sometimes she feels like she is the crazy one, and how she deals with friends and just how her life got messed up. This is a must read!
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Summary: karen
Review: ...it really is one of the best books I have ever read. As you all know it's written in poem format but it's cool because it doesn't rhyme so it doesn't sound all that corny. There are some real touching moments and some scary moments when you just feel like crying wiht "Cookie". I cried three times with this book. It really well formatted because she told her whole deal about her sister in a bunch of poems so if you are really into books you can finish it in about and hour. I recommend this book to everyone out there...
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Summary: Stop Pretending
Review: Have you ever Pretended to be crazy? Well I read this book called 'Stop Pretending' by Sonya Sones, A teenage girl happens to suffer a mental breakdown and land in a mental illness room hunted by voices that surrounds her, but no matter what her family was always with her. Not everyone has to go through what cookie went through, she is left behind, nothing will ever be the same. One morning everything changed her older sister got crazy. Cookie felt ashame and fearful about her sister sanity she has the courage to try to get her out. This book 'Stop Pretending' I really enjoyed it because it wasn't so long and it was easy to understand. I also enjoyed it because the main character cookie explained every thing so well it makes you be there and like if it was happening to you and you can picture what's really going on in the book so i recommended and i really enjoyed it and i think that anyone who reads this is going to enjoy it. I learned about this book to appreciate what you have in life and people who you care about and people who care about you. This book made me realize to be nice with my sister because who knows what might happen to her in the future or what might happen to me and i won't be able to say sorry to her for the mistreats that i did to her. And no matter what situation she is I will always be there. In the good times and bad we will always be together. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes poetry and especially those of you out there like me don't like to read but i liked this book because it was short and it was a great story and it was easy to understand i never got board because once you start to read it you would want to sit there and read all in one sit and see what happens next and you will learn to appreciate what you have in life.
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Summary: This Book Broke my Heart
Review: This was the best book I have EVER read in my life. I am considering writing to the auther telling how much I loooooved the book and how fab it is. The book is made up of poems that the girl wrote that tells the story.
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Summary: So cool!
Review: This book was so cool! It was about a girl whose older sister goes crazy, and what's happening to the younger sister. It was a good, quick read. Perfect ending!
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Summary: I don't really like poem books, but this!
Review: I REALLY loved this book! It was funny (at times), sad, emotional, everything! It is a REALLY good book! I TOTALLY suggest that you read it! It is WAY fabulo! :)
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Summary: Brilliant story.
Review: After reading Robert Cormier's "Frenchtown Summer", I decided I ought to try to find more books written in free verse. "Stop Pretending" is every bit as good as "Frenchtown Summer" was. I could easily see the narrarator's mortification, sadness, and fear. I had a brother who was committed to a psychiatric ward when I was ten, but it was a somewhat different experience as (a) he was only there for a day (b) he was not crazy (c) we have always despised each other anyway, unlike Cookie and her sister. I think the book was much better told in poetry than it would have been in ordinary prose. My favorite poem was "No Matter What". All in all, a brilliant work and I'm itching to get my hands on Sonya Sones's other book.
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Summary: Stop Pretending
Review: STOP PRETENDING what happened the summer my big sister went crazy is a good story by poem book by Sonyta Sones. This notification story was writtenb in a format I have never seen before. I think that writing many powms and arranging them into a story took great creativity. Feelingsd were expressed through the poems in a way that really touched me. I understood and felt the happiness of the characters of the book. I think that Sonya Sones must have a strong soul to be able to write so piercingly to the soul.
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Summary: it draws you in
Review: I was first attracted to this book because of its title. While waiting for my sister in the bookstore, I started reading the first few poems. I was immediately drawn into it and decided to buy it then and there. The poems don't try to hide some deep meaning behind all the words, though they do leave the read something to think about. Everything just seems so _honest_. The first symptoms of the author's sister's "craziness," her loneliness and attempt to hide her sister's illness, the boy, the boyfriend, the road to healing. I fell in love with the book right away. It's the only book of poetry I haven't been able to put down. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A Quick Read
Review: Stop Pretending is a collection of poems about a girl dealing with life when her older sister suffers from Manic Depression. Through the collection of the poems, we not only see the reactions the younger sister has at home, amongst friends, and at school, we see the reactions of her family, and how the older sister's treatment is progressing. The book is well written with a fast flowing pace... though some of the poems do not read like poetry. Some of the poems are more realistically sentences put in poetry format. However, there a number of poems that arre beautifully poignant, such as one that describes the older sister being carried away during a family visitation after throwing a Monopoly board into the air. The book is thought-provoking without being preachy. It is also an extremely quick read. Silently, I read it in less than forty minutes... and if, like me, you like to read poetry aloud... it can be read in less than two hours. All in all, Stop Pretending is a very pleasing read. Crazy James
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