I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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I’ve been absent the last couple of months because I’m trying to go back to college and I have to approve an admission test, but I don’t remember much about, well, math, so I’m studying like crazy.

Anyway, I’ve read a few books these days and one of those was “Te daria el sol” the Spanish edition of I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson.

I'll Give You the Sun

by Jandy Nelson 
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Summary.

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

*****

I’ll Give You The Sun felt exactly like The Sky Is Everywhere. I mean, if you read Jandy Nelson’s debut novel and had all those crazy feelings while doing it, then you have to know that I’ll Give You The Sun will break your heart and then heal it and make you cry and smile at the same time.

Jandy Nelson writing is beautiful. Her characters are complex and complete.

The plot was a little predictable, but for the first time I didn’t care that I guessed the twist right, because the beauty was in the writing, in the character’s personalities, in the family dynamics.

Jandy Nelson gets me. And this is a completely personal opinion. The weirdness of her characters, their love for art, and their love for the family… all those things feel real to me. There’s magic inside of those pages. I can’t help but feel happiness every time I read a book by her.

I know I’m not saying much, except for how much I loved this book. But let me tell you this: if you need a book to make you feel light, then you should give a try to this book.

I’ll Give You Sun is radiant and electric. It doesn’t need a ton of romantic scenes or drama to make you swoon or cry.

I am in love with this book and if you read it, I bet you at least will enjoy it a lot.

Have a great day and keep reading. 

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.” 

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My Never-ending Booknotes: The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

 

My Never-ending Booknotes is a weekly meme created by my awesome friend April @ Books 4 Juliet's Diary where we can share our favorites quotes or conversation from a book.

If you want to join, just go HERE and have fun.

I just finished this book and I am completely in love with it. The writing, the characters, the plot, everything is perfect. That's why today it's part of my never-ending booknotes. I love its quotes.

“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.” 

“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?”

“According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.”

 THE BOOK 

 

GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD

Summary.

Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life - and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie's own. Joe is the new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they're the sun and the moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it. But just like their celestial counterparts, they can't collide without the whole wide world exploding.

 

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My Never-ending Booknotes: I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

My Never-ending Booknotes is a weekly meme created by my awesome friend April @ Books 4 Juliet where we can share our favorites quotes or conversation from a book.

If you want to join, just go HERE and have fun.

This week my never-ending booknotes are from a book I still haven't read. 

The thing is, I wanted to read I'll Give You The Sun just because I LOVE the title, but then I read the summary, one review, and I saw 2 quotes that made me fall in love with the story even before I read it. 

This completely the kind of book I love to read. Check it out!

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.” 

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.” 

The Book

 

GoodReads/ Amazon/ TBD

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

 

 

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