Monday, September 24, 2012

Book Review: As white as milk, as red as blood (A. D’Avenia)



            Leo is a boy of sixteen, he spends his quiet life and carefree, trying to avoid, whenever I knock on his door, the white that frightens him: silence, reflection, empty. Plays football, plays guitar and likes to turn on a motorbike. A bullet in the head fixed: the beautiful red-haired girl he sees every day in front of the school, Beatrice.
            Everything runs smoothly, until in his life bursts the young substitute of History and Philosophy, by definition "a concentration of cosmic bad luck": he is different from other teachers. To him, when he speaks, his eyes sparkle, and he speaks of dreams, projects. Leo then decides to get involved, to seek his dreams and pursue them. He sees one already, Beatrice.
            But get in the game means that not everything goes according to plan and this will involve falls and bad blows: and Beatrice has cancer. The world falls down on me, and the beautiful words of Professor mean nothing for him.
            The truth however is that, Leo teaches me with generosity, anger and with the ability to love, is that only when we are beaten you really grow. It's just in front of the pain that Leo becomes a man.
            This book is that interesting to read, because it speaks about teenagers and in them you can see yourself.




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