Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

[layawaydragon]

A-MAZ-ING!!!!!

😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔✊✊👏👏🙌🙌

I'm totally going to buy a print copy to look at on the page and keep because every line is PERFECTION.


Notes While Listening:
>>Read by author
>>Dedicated to teens in detention centers
>>Shawn, older brother shot and killed day before yesterday
>>"If your blood is inside someone else, you never want to see it outside them"
>>He's 15
>>SOOOOO many good lines!!! I can't get them while listening. Too quick, too many. Going to buy a print copy to keep.
>>Missing one...
>>😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
>>Buck - 7; Danny - 6; Uncle Mark - 5;
>>"How do you tell water drowning isn't funny"
>>"How you hug what's haunting you"
>>Dad Mickey - 4;
>>That sucks. Super embarrassing. Poor kid.
>>"Buck struck a match and the elevator stopped"
>>3 - Killed Buck. Frank. Frick. Doesn't know Riggs.
>>Killed by Shawn. Tony there.
>>2 - Shawn.
>>"You coming?"

Interview Portion:
>>Boys in the Hood Meets A Christmas Story
>>Go poetry!
>>Good reasoning on narrating it. I was curious why a younger sounding or teen wasn't used. But it makes sense now and he did an amazing job.
>>Gang beef started in the 1960s over stolen pair of shoes in jail = Nortenos Vs. Surenos.
>>"Every decision was me thinking I was doing the right thing"
>>Extend more empathy.