How Sam and his family cope with Felix's death and Sam's own inevitable decline-ultimately, with humor, grace and generosity of spirit-will bring on tears more impressively, it will also help readers address the hard questions for themselves. Ill now be looking into the other books from Sally Nicholls in the hope they are as good as this one. 1 – How do you know that you've died?” “True facts about coffins” “Why does God make kids get ill?” Sam starts out with a buddy, another terminally ill boy who shares Sam's sense of humor and who with Sam is taught by a visiting teacher (“No dying at the table, Felix,” she tells him in the opening scene when he is mocking melodramatic portrayals of “the poor, frail child. Having read The Fault in our Stars, also about childhood cancer, I believe Ways to Live Forever would be much more suited to make into a film, the emotions left in me were far stronger than The Fault in our Stars. Read 1,243 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Sam, facing his third recurrence of leukemia at the age of 11, keeps a journal, and among his entries are facts, questions and lists: “Questions Nobody Answers No. Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls Ways to Live Forever book. , this first novel written by a 23-year-old Brit likewise features a young narrator with incurable cancer-and, while it doesn't entirely escape the conventions of the dying-child novel, it skirts easy sentiment to confront the hard questions head-on, intelligently and realistically and with an enormous range of feeling. This year's answer to 2007's Before I Die
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