Going Bovine

I want to like this book. The thoughts and concepts explored in this book are questions that I've had before: What is happiness? Why do difficult things happen to people? Why is this life unfair and what does it all mean?

However, the book itself is just not entertaining or funny enough for me to recommend this or rate this better. It just wasn't for me and I think there is a better way that these questions and themes could have been explored.

This was hallucinatory and weird.

I loved this.

This really did nothing for me and seemed really long.

A weird story about a HS student with a terminal disease who has to come to terms with who he is and who he wishes he could be. And getting the chance to be that person, even if it's not exactly how one imagined it would happen.

Crazy stuff!

I can see why this won the Printz: for creativity alone. At the end, I honestly couldn't decide whether I liked it or not, but it was still a fascinating page turner where I was constantly impressed with Libba Bray's writing, language, and imagination. I wouldn't put it in a junior high (too many drugs, sex, and fucks) but I would surely give it to high schoolers, and recommend 8th graders to find it. This is a great getting-boys-who-don't-like-to-read to read book.