Making the Run

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Summary: You have got to read this book
Review: Making the Run is the best fiction book you could ever read. The characters are really memorable. They are their own person. They don't try to be someone they're not. They do their own thing and they don't care what other pepole think.
While living in Rainey, Lu has it rough. She lives with a single parent who's hardly home and never there for her when she needs them. She has had a dream of doing something she loves doing and then one night that all changes. Then she falls for someone that she has known since she was little.
This book just sounds so real. Once you start reading it, you won't be able to put it down. The more you keep reading on, the more it keeps you guessing and wanting to know what happens next. I think it's one of those books that would keep you guessing and wanting to know what happens next.
I would suggest this book to anyone who is having a hard time in their life. I loved this book so much. Out of most of the books that I have read, I wouls have to say this one was one of the best. This book reminds me of someone I'm really close to. My friend is pretty much going through things that Lu is going through.

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Summary: Lu's Life
Review: Making the Run is the story of an 18-year old girl on the brink of graduation who wants to get out of Rainey, Kentucky the second after graduation. Lu's life is centered around partying, drinking, hanging with her half-brother and best friend Ginny and of course taking pictures. When her brother's long time best friend , Jay, returns home he has drastically changed from her first crush to her first lover. As things heat up with Lu and Jay, her brother and her father dissapprove. Making the Run shows how Lu deals with all of her problems and makes some decisions that will change her life.

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Summary: Drugs, Love, and Isolation
Review: The best parts of Making the Run are its stark, yet evocative prose and the uniqueness of the main character, 18-year old Lu. Lu is not a stereotypical teen ager. Although she has a need to get high to deal with her life (as others her age in this small Kentucky town also do), she views her own life and feelings with honesty. Related from Lu's point of view, the novel's plot is simple, perhaps even predictatble, but it's strength is that it doesn't shy away from the casual drug use and binge drinking, the sex, the impulsive desire to get on with life, and the feelings of apartness that make up the lives of many teen agers. The book is at its best when dealing with her new and powerful attraction to the older Jay and with Lu's sense of being different from the others around her, even her best friend, Ginny. Death, both past and present, plays a powerful role in this young woman's life.

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Summary: Drugs, Love, and Isolation
Review: The best parts of Making the Run are its stark, yet evocative prose and the uniqueness of the main character, 18-year old Lu. Lu is not a stereotypical teen ager. Although she has a need to get high to deal with her life (as others her age in this small Kentucky town also do), she views her own life and feelings with honesty. Related from Lu's point of view, the novel's plot is simple, perhaps even predictatble, but it's strength is that it doesn't shy away from the casual drug use and binge drinking, the sex, the impulsive desire to get on with life, and the feelings of apartness that make up the lives of many teen agers. The book is at its best when dealing with her new and powerful attraction to the older Jay and with Lu's sense of being different from the others around her, even her best friend, Ginny. Death, both past and present, plays a powerful role in this young woman's life.

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Summary: Finding Lu
Review: The life experiences of Lu's final weeks in high school and Rainey, Kentucky expresses a real-life partier and her emotions regarding her life and her years growing up in a small town. Lu is a pot head yet she lives her life responsibly for the most part. Family is most important to her. Lu has a keen eye for photography that matters...each photo she takes tells a story.
Lu's romance with Jay is deep and breathless as is her relationship with her best friend, Ginny. Lu's life is centered around her half-brother, getting high, hanging with Ginny, soaking up Jay, working at the Steakhouse, visiting her Gram, and her estranged relationship with her father and the lose of her mother. Making The Run is Lu's story of life and death that make her who she is.