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Summary: Born Blue
Review: "Ain't no one who can hurt me. Ain't nothin' inside me that can feel that kinda pain."
"Au contraire, my dear; every note you sing is drenched in pain."
Janie, a girl pursues her dream of becoming a famous singer despite her lack of a stable lifestyle, endures numerous struggles throughout her childhood. She is strong, yet incapable of taking care of herself. Her self-centered mindset and irresponsible decisions make it difficult for Janie, or Leshaya, to get past her mother's drug habits and work towards achieving her goal of singing like "the great ladies of jazz".
Han Nolan paints an identifiable picture in this book. I could easily relate to Janie, even though my life is not similar to hers. Every part of the book helps to describe the main character and explain why she acts the way she does. Even the language that Nolan uses reflects Janie's lifestyle and lets the reader into her perspective.
Born Blue is an uplifting and well-written book that I'd recommend to anyone who is interested in singing or just wants an entertaining story to be engulfed in.
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Summary: Gritty, soulful Leshaya will capture your heart
Review: "Born Blue" is a unique, touching novel about a girl with a gift fighting impossible odds and staying on top. Leshaya strongly reminds me of the character Monique in "Life is Funny" by E. R. Frank, a similarly hostile character searching for herself after having an unwanted pregnancy at sixteen. A novel drenched in the soulful sound of the "Ladies" as Leshaya calls them, the great black female blues, gospel, and soul singers like Etta James, Billie Holiday, Odetta, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, and Leshaya's own journey to find her voice.
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: "See, in a instant I grown up. In a instant I took hold of my life." These are the words of Leshaya. She only thinks that she has begun to take hold of her life, but at age seven she has no clue what life has in store for her.
This book is about the hardships of a young girl and how she tries to overcome them. The beginning of the book is mysterious because it does not start the way you'd think it would. Although there are many things that go on, it is an exceptionally easy book to follow and understand. It is an excellent teen book and it teaches you lessons about life in general. I think that Leshaya is a lot like many people today in our world and I think that Born Blue displays the reality excellently.
This book is superb. I have read Born Blue before and as a result fell in love with it the first time I read it. It is one of my favorite books of all time. I think that the uncertainty of the inside cover makes the curious reader so intrigued that they just plunge into the book and do not want to stop. I feel as though any book in which this happens is worth reading and that Born Blue is without doubt one of those extraordinary books that is just waiting for another person to experience the splendors of reading.- Nikki Jamison
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Summary: Born Blue
Review: ...Born blue, by Han Nolan, was a outstanding story about fighting to live through life as a teenager. Han tells a story that was so intriguing, that it was hard to put it down. The book was becoming a part of my life. I was so sad when it ended, it felt like there had to be more.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, mostly girls that love reading about people that go through severe times. Every time you put this book down, it leaves you with suspense about what will happen next...
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Summary: Thrilling and can relate
Review: A legitamate combination of words. Love the story, keeps you on the edge of your seat each page that is turned! Not able to put down once you start reading it.
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Summary: Born Blue
Review: Born Blue is a dramatic book. It tells a touching story that everyone in some sort of way can relate with. Either by being pregnant, or by feeling like the world is against you. It's about a troubled girl, traveling from foster home to foster home, trying to get the chace to sing. All she wants to do is sing. Along the way to getting famous she encounters pregnancy, drugs, hate, and being depressed.
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Summary: Born Blue
Review: Born Blue is an amazing story of a girl, raised by an addict and 'passed' from foster home to foster home, wants to sing like Etta James. When Jamie/Leshaya gets pregnant and leaves the baby with her best friend, she realizes the person that she has become. The person that she said she never wanted to be. Her mother. Born Blue teaches you lessons about life and shows you how drugs effect your family. This story is easy to relate to and follow. The ending is a definant suprise that you won't expect.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Book of All Times
Review: I absolutly loved this book. It had a lot of unexpected events happening all over the book and lots and I mean lots of drama. This book couldn't have been written more excitingly. It just has such a different point of view, it just shows what happened to a young 12 or 13 year old girl that usually don't happen to girls that age. But then again thinking about the characteristics of her personality and her looks show that she isn't really a normal girl. I was really shocked when I found out that she was pregnant. That was the big scene to me. She also had many relationships with guys but she was so afraid of getting hurt she never let them get close enough to her. I really thought her mother was a horrible women and self centered. She traded her only daughter for heroine, she didn't care what happened to her. I wish the book continued on so I'd know whether or not she became that great singer or if she ever will see her little girl again. Even though she let her daughter live with her foster brother so she could end how all the girls in her family were like. She became just what her mother had been. She did drugs and alcohol and got pregnant early. But I'm also glad that it ended because it leaves us wondering a little bit which makes us use our imagination. I'm glad at then end that she took care of her mom who she hated so much and she got to see her before she died because she had aids.
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Summary: Born Blue Review
Review: I believe that this book was written for teens, I don't know what age I would say to start at maybe fourteen. But I also think that adults might enjoy this book. But mainly I think the author is writing this for a teen audience.
I thought that this book was awesome, I hate to read and this is by far the best book I have ever read I couldn't put it down. It is most defiantly a page-turner. I got really into this book and I can honestly say that it felt as if Janie was talking to me. This book stirred a lot of emotion with me, I was angry and yet sadden to think that although this is a book there are people out there who can say this is my life.
My overall impression of the book was a good one. I loved this book I thought that it was really well written, the author knows how to write a book. She did a great job with description and dialect, I don't think that the book would have been as good if it weren't so well written. I would most definitely recommend this book to any teen looking for a book to read, I think anyone that reads this book will get a strong meaning out of it. I think that people who read this will become aware of real life. I know that sometimes I get so caught up in my word I don't think of how other people live. Reading this book makes me aware of other people out there and that this could be real even though it's in a book.
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Summary: Gr8!
Review: I just read this book for my language arts class and this is a MUST read for any teenage girl! It's got funny (not really funny but some moments are from the way Janie/Leshaya describes them) & serious moments and Janie/Leshaya describes things with an interesting flair. By the time you finish this book you'll want more!
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