Title of book: A Mango Shaped Space
Author: Wendy Mass
Pages read: 218 (all)
Rating: 7
The fictional book A Mango Shaped Space takes you through the life of a 13 year old teenage girl named Mia. Throughout this novel, it is revealed that Mia has a rare but not harmful disease called Synesthesia. This disease Mia has let’s her see numbers, letters, and sounds as colors. For her whole life she has kept this a secret from everyone around her. But as the disease starts to affect her life, it forces Mia to let out her little secret she’s been keeping from everyone. Nobody believes her at first but as she goes to the doctors to find out more and joins a club her parents start to believe her. As you read on Mia’s journey through life is hard after everyone one in school finds out about her disease, and between finding who she really is as a person. Mia realizes in order to find out who she really is she will have to loose something important to her in life.
Reading this book at first was kind of boring to me. It started off slow, and I really didn’t get the point at first, until Mia started learning more about her disease. I don’t know if this really is a disease, but I thought it was cool and understand why she kept it a secret. I mean, who would believe a little kid telling you that they see letters, numbers, and sounds as colors. It seems silly but I am definitely glad Mia stepped up and spoke about her problem before it really got out of hand without knowing really what she had. What she went through, I don’t know if I could do and I was surprised as I read the book more and more on what she did. Mia is just like me, the kind of girl who is brave at taking risks. Being different is who everyone is and nobody is exactly alike; we all have our special something in each and every one of us.
Good job Marissa! The title of you book doesn't sound appealing to me, but after reading your post I think I would really like to read this book. I am very interested in the disease that was diagnosed to Mia, and I wonder if it is real. If it is real, does anybody know any information on it?
ReplyDeleteMy sister told me about this book and I would love to read it! I love how you talked being different and how we are all special.....Landon I actually watched a show once that talked about people with this disease. It was very interesting because people would actually listen to some music and colors would appear infront of their eyes. I still would love to learn more about this disease because it is so rare.
ReplyDeleteAlong with Landon the title of this book doesn't sound appealing to me. I avoided reading your post until now because the title reminds me of The House on Mango Street- not my favorite book (sorry Mrs. Diamond...). To answer peoples questions: I am pretty sure this is a rare form of autism. The individuals who have this are called savants.
ReplyDeleteI am a geek. I watch the specials on this disease on the science channel. I will probably read this book in the near future.
Thanks for all the comments everyone. This diseas Mia had was interesting to learn though as i kept reading. Thank you Mitch for finding out if it really is a disease.
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