Emily's Musings

YA21: Fallen Angels

In contrast to the last YA book on the list, there was definitely nothing light and fluffy about this one. Yet it is an amazing book and I could see it appealing to teenagers. I certainly never would have picked it up if it wasn't required, but it is one that will stick with my for a long long time.

Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
Point, Scholastic, 1988

Coretta Scott King Award, 1989

I barely know what to blog about it. Its the story of Richie Perry, a 17 year old from Harlem who ends up fighting deep in the boonies of Vietnam trying to make sense of what's going on, but mostly just trying to get out of there alive.

Its one of those books that I wish I had finished early enough in the day to go to the movies afterward so I can displace some of the images still floating around in my mind.

I thought I was signed up to work tonight, but must have had the date wrong and since I had a free evening I thought I'd polish it off. I would have been finished earlier but got slightly distracted setting up a character in Second Life so I can participate in one of the events scheduled for OSN2005 where we're all going to meet up at someone's part of that virtual world and hang out online. The conference attendee list is up to 340 and people have already begin to have some really interesting conversations there!

Posted by Emily at February 9, 2005 07:46 PM