Review: A Delightful Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
Nobody, Nowhere, My Life Running with Scissors by Anna Mouse.This is a delightful book, funny, introspective, serious and all about what it means to be learning disabled and trying to fit into an independent living group home with others who are learning disabled, and just as dysfunctional as you.Then a rebel joins the group, not a resident, but a worker, who sees things a little differently and tries to free the residents from their `static cling lives', by introducing avant-garde ways of doing things. Ways that are frowned upon by resident staff members, which eventually - and sadly - gets them fired, causing them to have to move on with their life, but never forgetting the people they came to love, and the lives that were changed by a brief encounter in time.So real are the characters that you feel them, every thought, every emotion - and when you aren't laughing, you're crying; when your not frustrated, your downright mad, but in all of it, you are so charmed by the easy flowing plot that it's hard not to keep turning the page, rather than going to bed.Nobody, Nowhere, My Life Running with Scissors by Anna Mouse is one of a kind - and you will come away better having read it!