Review of 'Rollercoasters Wonder Reader [Paperback] Palacio, R.J' on 'Goodreads'
5 étoiles
Wow! I just finished this book with my youngest. That was a great book!
Hardcover, 313 pages
Langue : English
Publié 2 novembre 2012 par Doubleday.
My name is August. I won't describe to you what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, he has been home-schooled by his parents his entire life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, Auggie's parents are sending him to a real school. Can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches, Wonder is a frank, funny, astonishingly moving debut to be read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
--front flap
Wow! I just finished this book with my youngest. That was a great book!
J'ai découvert ce livre grâce à un entretien avec l’auteur(e) publié sur Slate.fr. Dès que j’ai lu l’article, j’ai su que j’allais lire ce livre. Je n’étais pas sûr qu’il me plaise, mais j’étais certain que j’allais le lire et qu’il ne me laisserait pas indifférent. Tout tenait en quelques lignes, dans le résumé du roman tel qu’il était décrit dans l’article :
L’ouvrage raconte l’histoire d’August Pullman, un garçon de dix ans au visage très différent – conséquence d’une maladie causée par une malformation chromosomique – et son parcours, qui le fait quitter le cocon protecteur de la scolarisation à domicile pour atterrir au collège et affronter ses hordes de sauvages.
Cette histoire allait forcément me parler. Ce n’est pas mon histoire., mon histoire n’est pas celle-ci, mais j’allais forcément me sentir proche de ce garçon qui ne passe pas inaperçu.
J’ai acheté ce livre le 6 janvier 2013, …
J'ai découvert ce livre grâce à un entretien avec l’auteur(e) publié sur Slate.fr. Dès que j’ai lu l’article, j’ai su que j’allais lire ce livre. Je n’étais pas sûr qu’il me plaise, mais j’étais certain que j’allais le lire et qu’il ne me laisserait pas indifférent. Tout tenait en quelques lignes, dans le résumé du roman tel qu’il était décrit dans l’article :
L’ouvrage raconte l’histoire d’August Pullman, un garçon de dix ans au visage très différent – conséquence d’une maladie causée par une malformation chromosomique – et son parcours, qui le fait quitter le cocon protecteur de la scolarisation à domicile pour atterrir au collège et affronter ses hordes de sauvages.
And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go. If I found a magic lamp and I could make one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think : the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make."
But the best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can run around the track, or even your grade point average – though these things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
Shall we make a new rule of life … always to be a little kinder than is necessary ? [...] Kinder that is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. Why I love that line, that concept, is that it reminds me that we carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness. [...] Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
I wasn’t even sure why I was getting this medal, really.
No that’s not true. I knew why.
It’s like people you see sometimes, and you can’t imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it’s somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can’t talk. Only, I know I’m that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I’m just me. An ordinary kid.
But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that’s okay. I’ll take it. I didn’t destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. And that’s not easy, even if you’re not me.
He’s just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I’ve ever seen, yes. But just a kid.
J'ai découvert ce livre grâce à un entretien avec l’auteur(e) publié sur Slate.fr. Dès que j’ai lu l’article, j’ai su que j’allais lire ce livre. Je n’étais pas sûr qu’il me plaise, mais j’étais certain que j’allais le lire et qu’il ne me laisserait pas indifférent. Tout tenait en quelques lignes, dans le résumé du roman tel qu’il était décrit dans l’article :
L’ouvrage raconte l’histoire d’August Pullman, un garçon de dix ans au visage très différent – conséquence d’une maladie causée par une malformation chromosomique – et son parcours, qui le fait quitter le cocon protecteur de la scolarisation à domicile pour atterrir au collège et affronter ses hordes de sauvages.
Cette histoire allait forcément me parler. Ce n’est pas mon histoire., mon histoire n’est pas celle-ci, mais j’allais forcément me sentir proche de ce garçon qui ne passe pas inaperçu.
J’ai acheté ce livre le 6 janvier 2013, …
J'ai découvert ce livre grâce à un entretien avec l’auteur(e) publié sur Slate.fr. Dès que j’ai lu l’article, j’ai su que j’allais lire ce livre. Je n’étais pas sûr qu’il me plaise, mais j’étais certain que j’allais le lire et qu’il ne me laisserait pas indifférent. Tout tenait en quelques lignes, dans le résumé du roman tel qu’il était décrit dans l’article :
L’ouvrage raconte l’histoire d’August Pullman, un garçon de dix ans au visage très différent – conséquence d’une maladie causée par une malformation chromosomique – et son parcours, qui le fait quitter le cocon protecteur de la scolarisation à domicile pour atterrir au collège et affronter ses hordes de sauvages.
And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go. If I found a magic lamp and I could make one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all. I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look-away thing. Here’s what I think : the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make."
But the best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can run around the track, or even your grade point average – though these things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
Shall we make a new rule of life … always to be a little kinder than is necessary ? [...] Kinder that is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. Why I love that line, that concept, is that it reminds me that we carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness. [...] Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
I wasn’t even sure why I was getting this medal, really.
No that’s not true. I knew why.
It’s like people you see sometimes, and you can’t imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it’s somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can’t talk. Only, I know I’m that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I’m just me. An ordinary kid.
But hey, if they want to give me a medal for being me, that’s okay. I’ll take it. I didn’t destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. And that’s not easy, even if you’re not me.
He’s just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I’ve ever seen, yes. But just a kid.