I know we had the handy whale (which I adored by the way) that nodded to Moby Dick and warned you that there will be a section coming up about Bridge and warned you that there will be a section about cards that you will probably zone out in and then a handy little box that helped you understand it.īut I still didn’t get it and I’m quite good at cards once I get into the swing of things. I kind of wish he had dumbed it down a little. He quite clearly stated that this was a book about Bridge.Īnd Sachar did a splendid job trying to explain the rules and didn’t dumb it down for readers. It’s not as if Mr Sachar lied and said “This book is about car chases and scantily clad girls and boys with leather jackets and chocolate muffins” and then wrote a book about Bridge.
It says so on the back of the book, right there… I’m looking at the words right now. Well, I don’t know what I was expecting… this book is, believe it or not, about Bridge. I’m 100% sure I’d love the game if I had a clue what was going on.Īlton. I love Bridge and I want to write a book about it and make other people love it as much as I do’. I can just imagine the meeting he had with his agent and his editor and being like ‘You know what? I don’t care. I loved how he didn’t try and trick the reader with his evil Bridge-playing agenda, he put his… wait for it… cards out on the table and made no apologies. I had no idea what was happening for the majority of this book, Sachar’s enthusiasm and passion for the game was so evident that I couldn’t help but wish I knew what was going on.
ALTON WOMAN JUMPS OFF BRIDGE 2021 FULL
Even though the Bridge thing completely went over my head, I absolutely love that Mr Sachar wrote this book knowing full well that a lot of his readers will be like… um, WHAT? So, I feel like I need to explain my low point already and you’ve not even read it because it does eventually lead into a high point. “I was beginning to get concerned by falling pianos.” She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school.
He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books. With his incomparable flair and inventiveness, he examines the elusive differences between perception and reality-and inspires readers to think and think again. Through Alton’s wry observations, Louis Sachar explores the disparity between what you know and what you think you know. As the summer goes on, he struggles to figure out what it all means, and ultimately to figure out the meaning of his own life. They’re in competition with his longtime housekeeper, his alluring young nurse, and the crazy Castaneda family, who seem to have a mysterious influence over him.Īlton soon finds himself intrigued by his uncle, by the game of bridge, and especially by the pretty and shy Toni Castaneda. Alton’s uncle is old, blind, very sick, and very rich.īut Alton’s parents aren’t the only ones trying to worm their way into Lester Trapp’s good graces. His parents insist that he drive his great-uncle Lester to his bridge club four times a week and be his cardturner-whatever that means. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules! From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, comes the young adult novel THE CARDTURNER, an exploration of the human condition.
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