Jay Asher 288 pages At the beginning of Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Baker has recently committed suicide.The people around her, though saddened, don’t really understand what happened. One day when Clay Jensen comes home from school, he finds a shoe box of cassette tapes that list the thirteen reasons why Hannah killed herself. He starts to listen

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 288 pages Published October 18, 2007 Fiction, young adult Thirteen Reasons Why  by Jay Asher was picked by a new book club I’m in. Someone may need to tell me to “step away from the book clubs” because if I was asked to be in another book club (assuming they read books I was

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a book that was impossible to miss when it first made the blog rounds. In fact, I actually accepted advertising for the book on this blog! It was impossible to miss this book because the premise was so chilling and yet so relevant to the lives of teenagers. Thirteen Reasons Why is about Clay, and how one day he comes home and finds a box full of tapes. Surprise...

Thirteen Reasons WhyJay AsherOctober 2007 304 pages Thirteen reasons why I like this book: 1. The set-up. Each chapter is one side of a cassette tape. Our main character, Clay, is listening to the tapes, and interspersing his own thoughts with the commentary from the tapes, which are being narrated by Hannah, who has committed suicide. Each side of the cassette tapes focuses on one person who affe...

One of my favorite books last year was Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It's a book that I've passed around to friends, family members, even old teachers. It's a book that I think every one that is a teenager, is a parent of a teenager, or is in a position to mentor teenagers should read. It's got humor, sadness, and life lessons. It's teen literature at its best. I saw ...

I have two books sitting on my desk at work. Thirteen Reasons Why, because it’s soon to be signed by the author, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, because my boss wanted my opinion of the book (which I haven’t read yet). Since I read the ARC of Thirteen Reasons Why quite a while ago, I’ve never really paid any attention to the cover of the book (even though it&...

Synopsis Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made t...

Today continues the inauguration of a new feature here and at my main blog, an unfinished person (in an unfinished universe), called Midweek Review. Each Wednesday, I will review my week in reading and look ahead to future reading with a review(s) of (a) book(s) and/or other posts. This week’s second book review is: Title: Thirteen

Guardian Review Kathryn Hughes reviews Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher What it manages to do very effectively is ask its teen readers to think carefully about how being part of a herd can mean trampling weaker, peripheral members. The book has been a huge hit in the United States, with young readers hailing it as both a warning and a manual for how to get through the high-school jungle. Young Br...

The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison Published by Simon and Schuster and Out Now It is never a good sign when the novel you are reading feels like it’s dragging and it’s only 326 pages of quite large type. But that’s what happened with The Thirteen Treasures. I’ll admit now that I am not the target audience