Heaven Eyes

I remember reading this when I was 11 years old when I was in Primary school. I loved this book the first time I read it, and although I read my childhood books a little differently to how I used to, I still loved this book. It's still as good as I remember it. This is a great book and can recommend......more

Kniha Nebeské oči ma chytila za srdce. Po prečítaní niekoľkých stránok som vedela, že táto kniha je moja šálka kávy. Asi jediné, čo by som mohla knihe vytknúť je časté opakovanie frázy: „Ty kokos.”😅......more

'Heaven Eyes' tells the story of a young orphan, Erin, who runs away from Whitegates with her friend January Carr, and their uninvited guest, Mouse. Their journey begins on a makeshift raft along a river. Going with the ebbs and flows of the current they are soon marooned on the dark mud bank of the......more

The book is so beautifully written it's almost magical, and yet I found the story it tries to tell disturbingly boring and pointless. I probably fail to understand this book as a whole. How can it start so powerfully, with such a magnificent prose it reads almost as poetry, and yet I read it while vi......more

Continuing my quest to read all of Almond's books in 2009, I found this book more mythological than his previous. As usual, Almond writes of children who search to belong and to make sense of the adult world around them. Again, the pattern in Almond's work is the main character who binds the wounds a......more