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3.01 AVERAGE
3.01 AVERAGE
A few years ago, one of my students borrowed this book from my pile of public library discards and loved it so much that she wrote a really touching letter to the author about how much it affected her. I stumbled across it again and accidentally sat down and read the whole thing. A few hours later, I was wondering why. It's not like it was good, really. It was just SO JR. HIGH. It's like every teeny-bopper book every published POINT. Do you girls remember? It was cheesy, and it was a page turner, and today I gave it to a girl who I knew would love it who has just recently turned into a reader after discovering a collection of novels called Blueford High that I also got for ten cents a piece. So, at least what I got out of what could have been a complete waste of two hours was another title that I can recommend appropriately and even discuss at length with a student.
Shallow girl realizes that her "perfect" life wasn't so perfect. Blah, blah, blah.
Shallow girl realizes that her "perfect" life wasn't so perfect. Blah, blah, blah.
Why did I read this?
I knew it would be mediocre.
There is nothing special about it, nothing bad.
Just a great, big waste of my time.
I knew it would be mediocre.
There is nothing special about it, nothing bad.
Just a great, big waste of my time.
I read this like 10 years ago and I remember that the main character gets some sort of disease that causes her to gain a lot of weight. Until this, she was always really into her thin body, and once went up to a stranger in a public restroom and offered her diet tips. So now people are coming up to her and giving her diet tips, so she has to learn to be “different” and makes new alternative friends who hang out in a jazz club, because she can’t be popular anymore. And I remember that after we read it, a friend pointed out how the main character was blameless in her fatness, because she couldn’t help it and she kept being like “No I don’t deserve to be treated like a fat person because I didn’t do the things that fat people do to be treated that way.” But no one cared.
Shallow, pun unintended, and the grammar isn't all there. But it's a nice, casual teen read.
This hit home because it was a like I was reading about my own health issues.
Incredibly unrealistic, It was a bore listening to Lara whine. An obvious mary-sue attempting not to be a mary sue.
Left a lot to be desired. Any character development is seen in what, the last chapter?
At best: completely pointless. At worst: potentially harmful. Would not personally recommend to teens.
This book was... okay. It wasn't the worst but not the best by any means. I found the main character Lara very whiny and self absorbed and I felt I couldn't connect well with her character at all. Instead of feeling pity for Lara or understanding her troubles, all I felt was annoyance. Lara was extremely irritating.
The book itself was entertaining and written fairly well (with an imaginative plot line - kind of) but I felt the characters and character development was lacking. A small (perhaps insignificant) feature I did enjoy was instead of chapter names or numbers, it was documenting her weight gain (and loss in later chapters). Certainly not super important but a nice touch.
Two stars for this book. Mediocre.
The book itself was entertaining and written fairly well (with an imaginative plot line - kind of) but I felt the characters and character development was lacking. A small (perhaps insignificant) feature I did enjoy was instead of chapter names or numbers, it was documenting her weight gain (and loss in later chapters). Certainly not super important but a nice touch.
Two stars for this book. Mediocre.