Month: June 2017

Book review

Breathing Room

By: Marsha Hayles

Realistic fiction

The setting of this book is a dirty old hospital room in the 1940’s. The other gives very good details about the setting she makes you feel like you are actually there experiencing every thing. The hospital room has about 4 beds in it and a door that leads to a hallway. A window overlooks a big tree and the floors are dusty.

The main characters name is Evvy Hoffmeister a 13 year old girl with a disease called tuberculosis. The author really makes Evvy feel like a real person she is stubborn and has a one track mind like some people we can all relate to her. All the characters in the book are different which is what makes the book unique no one is the same. If I hadn’t had liked one of the characters I think I would still continue to read the book because of how good it is. Evvy also had a twin brother, her twin brother writes her letters everyday. Evvy and her family are German and being German then people would treat you different and think you are bad, so she trys to keep her real self a secret. 

Evvy gets admitted into a hospital call Loon Lake because she has TB . The nurses there are very mean and she barley ever gets to see her family. In her room there are 4 other girls with the same thing. The book is basically telling about her time there and how diffreent it is.

Why are some of of the nurses at Loon Lake so mean?

Will all her friends at Loon Lake be able to go home?

Does reading the letters that her brothers sends her make her want to come home?

Why is Loon Lake so creepy?

Can they ever cure Evvy?

I give this book a 9 star because it is really interesting because of the time it takes place in. think this book really captures what it was like for people with TB because back then it was incurable. You get to see what they did back then in hospitals.