Go Ask Alice Book Report by Hannah Workman Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is based on a fifteen-year-old girl’s diary. In this diary she explains the trouble she has with her appearance, school trouble, relationship problems, and worst of all; how she gets involved with drugs. I recommend this book because it’s very engaging. It all started when Alice’s father got a new job and causes the family to move across the country. Alice becomes very depressed and insecure when she has to start at
Still Alice follows a story of a tragedy that tests family and relationships in general. The novel makes people uncomfortable due to the realness of what will truly happen if you get diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. This novel has some fantastic elements such as heart-wrenching plot lines, real and extraordinary characters and obviously, the element of surprise. Still Alice was written by Lisa Genova who’s never actually had to deal with a case of Alzheimer’s but, by the way she wrote it, it really made
treatment vs. mistreatment. As a parting shot, the book drew a line in the sand of public discourse about drinking and driving: If we as a country are really ready to say drinking and driving is a top public safety concern, then we need to mandate passive in-car alcohol detectors the way other safety passive devices (seatbelts, airbags) are mandatory safety equipment. Drinking and driving deaths are 100-percent preventable. Every one of them. The book was less about impaired driving, more about public
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and