Camilla- First Thoughts

Camilla-First Thoughts

The first book I've started to read this year is Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle, the same woman who wrote A Wrinkle In Time. My Aunt gave it to me for my birthday last year and I am just now getting around to reading it. Here is the synopsis from Goodreads:

 

Life had always been easy for fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson. But now her parents, whom she had always loved and trusted, are behaving like strangers to each other and vying for her allegiance. Camilla is torn between her love for them and her disapproval of their actions.Then she meets Frank, her best friend's brother, who helps her to feel that she is not alone. Can Camilla learn to accept her parents for what they are and step toward her own independence?

 

So far the book has been very slow and hard to sit down and read a bunch of at once. I've gotten through 2 chapters and am already on page 62. A lot of the book so far has just been setting up the setting and characters.

 

Camilla lives in New York sometime during the mid-1900's (I think, it hasn't exactly said). Her family is one of the more wealthy families, they live in a nice apartment and Camilla goes to a good private school. Her entire life has been easy, sheltered. As an only child, her parents gave her all of their attention. Now the book begins as their marriage begins to rock and Camilla is given less and less attention.

 

I am just beginning to read about Camilla's best friend, Luisa, and Luisa's brother, Frank. Luisa and Frank have lived a quite different life from Camilla. Their parents could care less about their well-being and fight very often. They live in a smaller, more dingy apartment. Because of this less sheltered life they've had and their friendship with Camilla, Camilla is beginning to see the world a different way.

 

That is all I have about the book so far, but I'll post more updates soon!