{"id":1641,"date":"2009-03-17T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:47","slug":"ice-chip-on-his-shoulder-thaw-by-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Ice Chip on his Shoulder: Thaw by Monica Roe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314266447805031042\"<\/a>This title was a 2008 Cybils YA finalist.<\/p>\n

This book is nothing if not thought-provoking and discussion-generating, let me tell you. Let me also say that it seems people either really liked it or really didn\u2019t like it\u2014as can easily happen with a book in which the narrator is extremely UNsympathetic. I\u2019ll leave it up to you to decide whether there was enough of the redeemable in his personality to make it work. <\/p>\n

Dane, the narrator of Thaw, is one of those popular athletic guys who seems to have it all\u2014until he\u2019s felled by Guillain-Barre Syndrome, resulting in almost total paralysis. Much of the paralysis is temporary, but it\u2019s up in the air whether he\u2019ll ever regain full mobility, let alone go back to being the champion skier he was before.<\/p>\n

Dane also has an attitude the approximate size of the expert ski slopes he used to conquer with ease. That attitude, and the utter disregard with which he seems to view anyone who doesn\u2019t meet his impossibly high standards\u2014an attitude he picked up from his father\u2014resulted in a breakup with his girlfriend Elise, just after he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre. Now he\u2019s got an even bigger chip on his shoulder and a set of uphill battles that are both physical and mental. But he\u2019ll have to learn to respect that people have frailties and weaknesses as well as strengths if he\u2019s going to heal\u2026and he\u2019ll have to accept that it\u2019s not just his friends, family, and rehab therapists whose weaknesses he has to respect, but also his own. <\/p>\n

Buy Thaw<\/i> from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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