Sydney Smith Blog #25

One really good book that I read recently is "Thirteen Reasons Why." It's one of my favorite books now. I read it over spring break, and I read it in one day. One night, really. I stayed up until like 4:00 in the morning reading it, and had to recharge my Kindle twice. That's how you know a book is good. You literally can't put it down! And that's what happened with this book. It was really just that good.

The book is told through both narration and through cassette tapes (that the narrator is listening to at the same time as the audience). The tapes are made by a friend of the narrator who committed suicide earlier in the year, and they explain her motives for killing herself. They are to be passed along from person to person, seemingly to people who are to blame for her suicide. The book is so intense and leaves a lot of the important things to the end, keeping the ultimate reason she killed herself secret. And then, at the end, you finally find out what the narrator's connection to the whole story is. It's really a great book, and I would definitely reccommend it.