Chopsticks

Holy cow! Amazing. I almost don't want to describe it, just go read it!

Totally creative way to tell a story! The story was only so-so for me though. I feel so much could be done with this format, though! I hope someone gets a hold of this idea and does something amazing with it!!

Forgive me, but I'm not much of a YA reader. Teens are always living on one end of the spectrum (despair) or another (elation); I find it exhausting to zigzag through life that way. My fifty-six years have revealed to me that even Amazing Love fades in six months and that Terrible Trauma (no car for your sixteenth birthday, for example) has a six month expiration date, too. (You might take a look at The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky for more info on these phenomena.)

Chopsticks is a such a YA novel, full of Amazing Love and Terrible Trauma. But it's the packaging of Chopsticks that snagged me and sent me to the checkout line at the library.

Very clever packaging. Packaging that tells the story in photos and found objects. I liked the packaging very much.

Not so much the story. Two teens in love. In love against the world. You know what I mean if you've read at least three other YA books.

But the packaging is fun and worth a look-see.

I really enjoyed this. I really believe it should be read in one sitting. The story is told mostly in photos and trinkets. I was kind of blown away by how powerful this medium was and would love to see more like it. The story is great too. After I closed the cover, I sat there for a minute and had to think about what I had just read. Then, I went back and read the entire story again.