Nate Lundberg’s story the summer of Lemon Drops is a story about a boy who was caught drunk driving and was sent by the judge to go do community service instead of jail time. It ruined all his summer plans and he just graduated college. Whet he ended up doing that summer was working with a man who called him “college boy” and gave him a hard time for actually having made a 3.9 in college and the fact that he is spending his time digging on the beach for sea turtle nests at night and placing cages around them. I enjoyed the idea of the summer job on the beach at night with sea turtles, I think that opened up a lot of doors for potential good descriptions of the ocean and night a the birth or baby sea turtles. You did have a few descriptions that fell along this line, however I really want to see more. Not once did he ever find a turtle nest and I really wanted that to happen. I also do not quite understand how he changes or what the fake gold he finds in the end that the man he works with has planted in the sand for him to find. At the very end he talks about how his dreams seemed to fail and disappear before his eyes, but how does that affect him? He is still stuck at the beach, doing the same job, and still frustrated with the one mistake he made. I also don’t know if I buy that if he got pulled over for drunk driving and mistaking a lady cop for a dude that the judge would send him to work on the beach for the summer. Maybe I’m ignorant on the matter, but I believe elaboration on the topic would help. I enjoyed the whole theme of “my face gets me in trouble” theme you had going throughout the book, however it was more prevelant in the beginning then I felt like you forgot you needed to use it and just threw it in again at the end. I want more about his face, maybe a literal discription of him looking at it in the mirror and discussing the aspects of it that he thinks gets him in trouble? Overall I enjoyed your work again Nate, Thanks!
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