Icy Sparks (CD-Audio)

from taramatchi

I found myself very frustrated with the book. It is hard for me to be objective about the writing since I spent most of the time being so aggravated by the way people treated her. I only finished the book because I could reason that it was the 1950's and people did not understand the disorder. Wi...

from readingrat

The writing is not bad and I usually enjoy a well-written character driven story, but in this case, I found it very difficult to connect to Icy or maintain interest in her story. This story is told from 1st person view, but some how the reader still seems to be kept at a distance.

from taramatchi

I found myself very frustrated with the book. It is hard for me to be objective about the writing since I spent most of the time being so aggravated by the way people treated her. I only finished the book because I could reason that it was the 1950's and people did not understand the disorder. Wi...

from tealightful

Basic Summary: Girl, with ridiculous name of Icy Sparks, grows up in very rural Kentucky during the 1950s with a case of Tourette's Syndrome. Only, they don't know it's Tourette's and she must spend her youth trying to hide her painful secret from shaming her family. It doesn't work and she ends ...

from RachelPenso

I thought this would be a good book. It's about a young girl growing up in 1950s Kentucky with undiagnosed Tourette Syndrome, which seemed like an interesting story. But it was largely uneventful and I found the characters completely two dimensional. Some books I hate, but I don't have strong eno...