Day 01 - The Best Book You Read Last Year
I read a lot of good books last year, Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne and The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy all ranked very high but the stand out book from my 2013 reads has to be We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
As a Parent this book scared the heck out of me! You follow Kevin, a mass murderer who killed 9 people at his school just before his 16th Birthday, and his Mother all the way from before he was conceived, through his birth, childhood and adolescence right up to his committing of the crime and his prison time. The story follows this Mother and Son's awkward relationship and is written through the eyes of Kevin's Mother in letter's that she writes addressed to Franklin, Kevin's Father.
It was a brilliantly written book that made me return to the 'nature vs nurture' debate and question whether people can be inherently evil or if it's something that they learn. It also made me query the Mother's viewpoint; was Kevin really as she described and only she saw the real him? Or was it that she always saw, and brought out, the worst in him?
this sounds like a great read I will have to take a visit to the book shop its about time I did some reading again x
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