Aug 18, 2010
Tangled
by Carolyn Mackler
I liked this book. I liked how it unfolded the four characters at both the beginning and the end. No one is everything they seem to be. I like how Jena learned to trust herself and stop comparing herself to everyone else. I liked how Owen learned to take a chance. Dakota started realizing that there were consequences to his actions and Skye learned that it was okay not to be perfect, to be a little flawed.
It’s always nice when something comes along and can show you the big picture, show you how everyone is intertwined with one another. We’re so dependent on each other that we don’t always notice the strings that bind us. It kind of reminds me of the red thread that Chinese people believe bind each other. I remember seeing one of these at the art museum in San Fran. I kind of wonder sometimes if there’s a red string that binds me to my birth parents. I remember wondering sometimes if I had perhaps just passed my mother, my father, my cousin on the street. The possibilities seemed endless and I always wondered, would we ever even know?