I have just finished the book, Echo by Francesca Lia Block. It is a very interesting book. However, it's a little weird at the same time because every single time it starts a new chapter, the narration will change from I to someone else. For example, the first chapter in the narration "I" but then in the second chapter, it was talking about a girl named Eva. It was a little confusing at first but then after I reread the book again, it made sense because all the chapters are connected with each other.
The book is about a girl named Echo and how she feels insignificant compared to her "angel" mother. Her mother was like an angel because she was very beautiful, can cure with just a touch, and she can grow the most beautiful flowers around. Echo has always envied hermother. However, when Echo's father got sick from cancer, her mother said to Echo's father: "Give me the disease... I would rather die than live without you." Echo became afraid that her mother will also leave her. Even though Echo had said that she had evied her mother, she had also loved her in her own way.
Echo then went to the beach to relieve herself of such thoughts. She decided to swim even though there was no lifeguard. When she was in the waves, she realized that the waves were going to take her away from life. Later on, she woke up in a hospital. The doctor said that a boy had rescued her. Echo eventually met the boy. The boy was also like an angel because he had pasted wings on his back to escape from the hurt and pain that he was living with before. At the end of the book, Echo met the boy again. The boy had turned into a man. They realized that they had this connection with each other and realized that they fell in love. In the end, Echo got pregnant.
I liked how Echo wanted to become a mermaid to "swim away all her sorrows and pain".
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Echo
Posted by zoeRose at 8:46 AM
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I read "Echo" by Francesca Lia Block, for independent book reading too, about a couple weeks ago.
I find the whole thing with switching narration all the time a bit confusing, especially at the beginning of the book, when you don't really know who's who. But later, when you reread the chapters, they all find a way of interconnecting with one another.
About the whole lifeguard-sea-mermaid thing, I found that very cool. I was a little disappointed that throughout the book, she'd mention him, but the only times he was ACTUALLY there, was at the very beginning (when he saved Echo), and at the end when he came back for her. I really wished that the angel-boy appeared more in the book. ehhh, but I wouldn't really recommend it, because I didn't like it that much.
The way you ended you're blog was funny. It's like in the end she got pregnant. Kind of random. Oh well. So I'm assuming you enjoyed the book. I hope so.:)
HI!!!!!!!!!!!! I never read the book Echo. It seems like a very interesting book, but i probably won't read it because characters confuse me alot. Like how you said that there's alot of switching narration and stuff. I would most likely to get lost and have no clue what's happening... I agree with Miriam that how you end your post was kind of random.. :D
That sounds like a really intersting book. It pratially full of symbols and strange little methophors. I might read it when I'm done with my other book^^
-sola
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