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Book Review: Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
In 1927, Rose spends her days making a scrapbook about a famous actress and turning her workbooks into paper recreations of buildings. In her house in Hoboken, Rose looks out at Manhattan and dreams of leaving her home. When Rose sees an article in the newspaper about her favourite actress doing a play in New York, that might be the incentive Rose needs to leave New Jersey. In 1977, Ben mourns for his mother who died earlier that year. One night when he returns to his old house, a lightening storm changes everything for Ben. When he finds a few old items by chance, Ben decides to leave Minnesota for New York to find the father he’s never known. With Ben’s story told through words and Rose’s through pictures, their two stories converge in the American Museum of Natural History.
From the author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck follows two children as they embark on journeys that will change everything for them. Told in a similar format as Hugo, this book features Selznick’s beautiful illustrations. I loved how, like in Hugo, Selznick incorporated real places and things into the book. I loved the story and how the two different plotlines started out with nothing in common and slowly came together. I went to the American Museum of Natural History earlier this year, so discovering that it is featured in this book was a very pleasant surprise. I loved the role different things, such as lightening, New York, museums and collections, played in the book. This book is partially inspired by From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, although the two books are very different. I loved how the different settings in the story fit into the plot. This book is huge, but it is a quick read, due to all the pages of drawings. Because of this, you might think that the characters would feel underdeveloped, but Selznick managed to create realistic characters in a short amount of time. The writing was good, but it lacked the special magical feeling that Hugo had. Before you start this book, the most important thing to know is that probably half of the book is made of illustrations. I could see people picking this book up without knowing that and feeling disappointed in the shortness of such a large book. Writing another novel after the success of The Invention of Hugo Cabret would have felt like a difficult feat, but Brian Selznick managed to create another original and captivating novel. The illustrations make this book truly beautiful, and it manages to share a lot of the best features of Hugo while still being completely unique. After how much I loved Hugo, it felt like Selznick’s next book wouldn’t be able to compare. Lightening must have struck twice for Brian Selznick, because Wonderstruck was an amazing novel about the things that make us who we are.
4.5/5
“Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.”
I think I’ll do this, except over more than 30 days, probably.Day 1: Favorite book
Day 2: Least favorite book
Day 3: Book that makes you laugh out loud
Day 4: Book that makes you cry
Day 5: Book you wish you could live in
Day 6: Favorite young adult book
Day 7: Book that you can quote/recite
Day 8: Book that scares you
Day 9: Book that…
30 Day Book Challenge
I’m going to start the 30 Day Book Challenge today. I have to admit that I’ve never finished a 30 day challenge, so here’s hoping that this time’s different.
List of Book Blogs
Last night I made a list of book blogs on tumblr which you can see here.
This list is very short compared to all the blogs that mainly focus on books, so if you are not on the list and should be write in my ask.
Day 6: Favourite Young Adult Book
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Day 4- A Book That Made You Cry
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Let’s just say I’m really glad my roommate wasn’t around when I read this one.
Day 3: A Book That Makes You Laugh Out Loud
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. You wouldn’t think that these books would be funny, but at times they are hilarious.
The front of The World’s Biggest Book Store in Toronto.(by noseinabook-)
Book Blogs That Only Post From Credible Sources
Whether that means linking to flickr or deviantart or only posting their own pictures, as far as I know these blogs never use weheartit or post anything uncredited. I’m sure I missed a lot, but here’s some.
The Inspiration Behind The Book Thief
- Question: What inspired you to write THE BOOK THIEF?
- Answer: I grew up in Sydney and had a pretty normal childhood with my brother and two sisters. We lived most of our lives in the backyard, doing typical Australian things, but once in a while, it wasn’t Sydney anymore – because our parents told us their stories. That was when a piece of Europe entered our household, and our lives.
- It was never an organized thing. My mum and dad never sat us down and said, ‘Now we’re going to tell you where we came from.’ It was spontaneous. Something would happen, usually in the kitchen, and then came a story. We would hear about cities of fire, bombs shaking the ground, and what it was like to emerge from underground to discover that everything had changed.
- One evening, I remember my mother telling us about something else she witnessed as a child, which has stayed with me a long time.
- She told us of the time she saw Jewish people and other so-called criminals marched through her small town, on their way to Dachau. At the back of the line, an old man, totally emaciated, couldn’t keep up. When a teenage boy saw this, he brought the man a piece of bread and the man fell to his knees and held the boy’s ankles, thanking him…That was when a soldier marched over, tore the bread from the man’s hands and whipped him for taking it. Then, he chased down the boy and whipped him for giving him the bread in the first place. It was a story of great cruelty and kindness, simultaneously.
- I didn’t know it at the time, but almost all of the stories my parents told were full of opposites: right and wrong, fear and relief, destruction and humanity. The other point I didn’t realize was that these stories became like a second language to me, and when I became a writer, that language was already there – just waiting. It was waiting for me to scratch the surface, reach in and pull it out as the beginnings of a book.
- At first, The Book Thief was supposed to be a small novel – only a hundred pages or so – but the more time I spent with it, the more it grew, in every way. As three years of work went by, it changed from a book that meant something to me to a book that meant everything, and I’m very grateful for it. I’m also grateful to every reader who has picked it up and given it a chance. They’ve been more generous to The Book Thief than I could ever have imagined.