Kayla's Book Nook

Yesterday I started reading this book, Hold Still , by Nina LaCour, because it's a shorter book, and it looked interesting and lonely on my shelf. As a I read the dusk jacket, I realized that this was going to be a sad book, but a revolutionary one as well.  This book is about two teenage girls, that are best friends, and yet one of those friends, Ingrid, commits suicide and leaves Caitlin questioning everything about their lives, friendship, relationships, and so much more. It's about the desperation of a girl left alone, without answers, and then when she finds Ingrid's journal, with answers she's not sure she can hear or understand. Caitlin is drowning in grief, she is confused beyond belief, and yet there were signs and clues along the way, and still she did nothing. It's an issue she deals with in the book, that I think many people deal with in life, and it's one that the author is not afraid to explore and grapple with in the story. I also love how her f