Why should I reach the marchetta? What is it about?
alrighty I’m not the most articulate person around here when it comes to expressing myself, friend, but for Marchetta I shall try *breathes* aite where should I start?
if you aren’t familiar with all of this then bonus intro:
by “Marchetta” I’m really referring to the queen Melina Marchetta and I really mean READ ALL MELINA MARCHETTA’S BOOKS (hence read the marchetta; shoutout to the awesome finchmackee for coming up with that)
“the Marchetta” consists of
Jellicoe Road (general fav),
Saving Francesca (Francesca Spinelli is me I am Francesca Spinelli)
The Piper’s Son (my moon and stars) (read this and you’ll understand my URL ha)
Looking for Alibrandi (the only ‘Looking for’ that matters) (also the least appreciated Marchetta) (I’m gonna do a LFA appreciation thingy soon I hope),
Lumatere Chronicles, (on why you should read this, by caliphashazii)
and not forgetting her middle-grade novel
which is the cutest story ever featuring the little brother of one of the main characters in Jellicoe Road so yeah there’s a Jellicoe mention too in it (!!!)
on why you should read the Marchetta:
friend, Melina Marchetta writes the most awesome characters. that’s the main reason why I’m so in love with her books; she creates these characters, characters who feel so real they could be your own friends, characters who are flawed and complex and relatable and who you can’t help to love.
also, Melina Marchetta is the queen of writing relationships and family, especially family. every single one of her novels portrays realistic relationships of both platonic and non-platonic sense and puts emphasis on family values. the number of times I have cried over the family ties in her novels: countless.
also, she has this simplest prose, but she could pack a boatload of emotions in her writing. oh god she writes emotions SO. WELL. she makes me feel things I don’t want to feel, friend, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I reread her books it’s like the first time I mean I still feel like being socked in the gut every time I get to the painful parts, and even harder each time. I don’t know how to explain it even more coherently, but there you go.
bonus: quotes that make me feel
“I should be brave like the gods.” “Each time the gods have whispered your name to me, their voices have trembled.”
‘Our bodies aren’t strangers,’ he said, his voice ragged. ‘Our spirits aren’t strangers.’ He held her face in his hands. ‘Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I’ll destroy that part of me.’
“I think the worst thing that ever happened to me was leaving home. (…) Because I miss it like you’d never believe, and then I go away from this place and I miss here too. I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”
“You’re going to go on living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it’s giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You’ve accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.”
He’s the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it’s not about his face but the life force I can see in him. It’s the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he’s saying, “Here I am, world; are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?” Except this boy is dead and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate’s and Narnie’s and Fitz’s and Jude’s grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn’t believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here.
holy shit this is long I got carried away hahaha I don’t even know if I’m making sense?
tldr; I’m sure there are a lot of other people who’ve read Marchetta who can clearly explain why and convince you to read the Marchetta but anyway I IMPLORE YOU TO READ THE MARCHETTA (and maybe tell me what you think of it after? no pressure tho)
awkwardly signing off now bye
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