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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
This book is a treasure! Every mixed-up youth who’s made glamorous, joyous bad decisions, and every mixed up no-longer-a-youth who remembers those days fondly from a more sensible place with revel in this novel.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
three stars? I want to love it for the fun voice and laugh out loud moments. "A somber moment came over us, like a hunchback with a hopefully colored tie."
But the plot is awfully messy and wrapped up for too neatly. Still, for evoking the time and place and a for a memorable heroine it will no doubt live in my memory.
But the plot is awfully messy and wrapped up for too neatly. Still, for evoking the time and place and a for a memorable heroine it will no doubt live in my memory.
A likeable and tender account of a woman’s rebellious and naive rite of passage in the 1950’s. Enjoyable!
Read it when I was staying on my own in Naples. Sally Jay has all of Holly Golightly's sense of self with a much cooler sense of style. As a character she was a joy to read and her experience in Paris felt like an adventure in every step of the way. I loved the story and the feeling of falling in and out of love with a place as the characters develop and change.
Will definitely re-read.
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Will definitely re-read.
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Yeah... I didn't enjoy this book. Nothing about this book made me want to read it, which is why it took me so damn long to finish - I was rarely inclined to pick it back up. I've read better books about the same content - like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - but this story is just awfully written, and the main character Sally Jane Gorce, who is meant to be sassy, witty and a riot, was a boring, arrogant woman, who used her body and her uncle's money to travel around France. She really didn't do anything for herself, and just drivels on in this faux-memoir. I really wanted to enjoy this one - a shame. This is a book I won't keep on my shelves for long.
3.5/5 Don’t get me wrong, overall I really really liked this book. It was funny and right up my alley. The only drawback for me was that as much as I loved the main character I didn’t feel entirely attached to her. I think it was a super enjoyable read and I might even give it a 4/5 if I felt like the book would stick with me more.
"A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable."
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes