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What I Was

Meg Rosoff

Hardcover | Pages: 209 pages

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Title	:	What I Was
Author	:	Meg Rosoff
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	January 24th 2008 by Viking Adult (first published August 30th 2007)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Coming Of Age

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An unusual coming-of-age story that examines the fluidity of identity and the ways in which people consciously redefine themselves in the face of love.

In the not too distant future, a one-hundred-year-old man called H sails the eastern coast of England with his godson. H recalls when he himself was sixteen—his godson’s age—as they search for the site of H’s life-altering friendship with a boy named Finn. Finn lives alone on an isolated slip of land and follows no rules: he spends his days swimming, fishing, and collecting driftwood for his tiny beach hut. H, on the other hand, is an upper-class boarding school boy stifled by monotony and endless rules. They meet by chance on the beach, and H is immediately awed by (and jealous of) Finn’s way of life. They strike up an unlikely friendship but the gap between their lives becomes difficult to bridge, and before long the idyll that nurtured their relationship is shattered by heart-wrenching scandal.

Meg Rosoff was formerly a YA author, but her work transcends categorization and we are delighted to bring it to adult readers for the first time. What I Was is a timeless, enthralling story destined to become a classic.

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Original Title:	What I Was
ISBN:	0670018449 (ISBN13: 9780670018444)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goldener Lufti (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2008)

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(Original review posted on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/...)Why I Read It: I read Rosoff's award-winning How I Live Now a few years ago and while I didn't fall head-over--heels in love with it, I still LIKED it and have been curious to check out her other works. This went on sale at work for $2 for the hardcover (!!!) AND I get 30% off on top of that so I couldn't resist picking this title up. It's languished in my TBR for too long, so I finally picked up and gave

Not as brilliant as "How I Live Now," (really, what can be?), but still a thoroughly good read. I really enjoy Ms. Rosoff's way with words, she is really skilled at describing a scene and various characters' reactions to it without spelling it all out for you. Perhaps because I have always been partial to stories of children & teens surviving out in the wilderness on their own with no adults (i.e., My Side of the Mountain, Julie of Wolves, The Boxcar Children, etc, etc), I really enjoyed her

What an intriguing little book.I knew from experience that Meg Rosoff doesnt pen your average young adult fiction; indeed, How I Live Now was one of the more offbeat, compelling and disturbing YA books Ive ever read. I finished it almost four years ago, yet I can recall certain passages and turns of phrase all these books later.In the vein of the colorful, unusual and incredibly well-written is this slim novel: What I Was. The tale of H, our relatively unnamed narrator, and his long-ago

I definitely recognized this as having been by the author of How I Live Now. The title, something about the tone, the writing style, maybe even the set-in-the-future-but-not-really-ness of it. And, like HILN, What I Was could just as easily be YA as adult fiction. (The library shelves this one with the adults.)I thought it was really good, if not as unexpectedly excellent as HILN. The last pages sort of spun out, and left me a bit confused and disappointed. To be fair, Ive never liked epilogues,

I think I'm losing faith in Meg Rosoff.I LOVED How I Live Now, so much so that I even consider it one of my favourite books of all time, and when Just In Case came out, I snapped it up immediately. It too was a bit of a let down. This novel was well-written and immersive but ultimately I didn't come away from the book feeling like I'd been changed or learned something significant having read it. As a matter of fact, it didn't even feel like Rosoff was trying to tell me anything at all.I figured

I miss books like this. Its been so long since Ive come across one. What I Was found me today at Chapters. I cant even tell you where. Was it on a table (20 books to read before youre 20? Maybe New & Hot Teen Fiction?), or maybe just there on the shelf. I have no idea now. But anyway. I picked it up and read the back and got chills up my spine. This was a book I had to read, even if it tore my guts out (which it did, mostly).What I Was is the story of H. 16 years old and shuffled off to his

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes. Wow this was bad.Meg Rosoff's writing style is absolutely beautiful, hence it still deserves one star. Still, it was so hard to read and I dragged myself