Review: wonderful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2013
Anyta Sunday writes books that get to me, they have a way to sneak to me, grab me without knowing how and why. "Lenny For Your Thoughts" is such a book, too. I just loved it.The book works with flashbacks - I like that despite it's making me crazy because I really want to know what had happened. We get simultaneously the actual action - Lenny's planed move to a village much closer to Berlin and his reconnecting with his cousin Julien and the flasbacks - how he and Julien became friends, how their life was with his best friend Ben, his sister and his Oma and how they realize that they want to be more than friends and the resulting heartbreak (which broke my heart, too).It's well done and I like the way little moments were shown to have big impact.Anyta Sunday works in this book with a very cute metaphor. As a boy Lenny heard about the "sole" going to heaven and from that on the soul will be described as a sole through the book. I liked that, more than once I imagined a fish helplessly flapping in front of him, no longer his own. I don't know if it was intended but a fish was the symbol/carrier for the soul in ancient Egypt.I loved the book. It has a very slow but captivating built up. I was so fascinated by Lenny's whole emotional mess, his struggle to cope and not get hurt again - I couldn't put it down. I wanted to grab Julien and yell at him to make up his mind and finally spill all his hidden emotions and feelings. I wanted them to find their way together. When they finally did - it was so good. There was this expressive familiarity that made everything just a bit sweeter and more solid. As a reader you understand "this is it" because they know it.And I loved the side characters very much. They were more than that; they all were important, even Herr Koch. In the end I was so very lost .....I wanted the book to continue, I wanted to see them start their new life together just a bit more. God, I loved the tender emotional moments they had.So...Anyta Sunday, you have again written a very wonderful and sweet book....I highly recommend it ;)