Knots in My Yo-yo String Book review

 

 

        Quite frankly I think that the book Knots in My Yo-yo String, by Jerry Spinelli has more weaknesses than strengths. This book focuses on Jerry Spinelli’s childhood in Norristown, Pennsylvania and is focused on stories of his childhood.

        The important point of this book is what happened in his childhood, and how that influenced him and his other books. He does that by relating relevant stories of his youth. The book has some major problems though, for example I am constantly wondering why he put in some of his stories. Such as one story he put in which he got attacked by a leech. I personally think that he put in those stories for filler. It made me wonder “so what” and some of those were never answered. Also, the reason he wrote the book is unclear, and the stories are just plain boring. The book’s biggest strength is that he did a good job showing us how his early days influenced his writing. His experiences with growing up, for example, probably influenced the story Wringer. Another thing that bugged me is the lack of order. The stories are scattered randomly around that timeline of the book, almost as if they are feed scattered for chickens. There are maybe ten or so dates in the entire book.

        I find it hard to recommend this book to my friends so I would not really recommend this book, unless you want a story to put you to sleep. It is boring and the order of the book is unorganized.

 

Created by Billy Spaw. November 16, 2007

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ISBN 0-439-16220-3

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1999 BY FIRST SCHOLASTIC PRINTING