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3.21 AVERAGE
3.21 AVERAGE
I appreciated the wittiness and verisimilitude of narrator Annie's writing. As a teacher and someone who hangs out almost exclusively with 10th graders and people aged 60+, I enjoyed the young adult verisimilitude as well. I desperately miss friends who are my age, so this book was a good escape from people who cringe at the words "crap" and "sucks".
As far as the story, when I read it, I enjoyed it, but I had a hard time just convincing myself to pick it up and read it. I may just be in a reading-slump. However, how Gus and Annie finally get together is just regularly beautiful -no fancy restaurant, no long harangues, no sparkling diamonds- just mushroom shish-kabobs and a Mr. Rogers re-run. When someone confesses their love to me, I want it to be done in the same manner.
As far as the story, when I read it, I enjoyed it, but I had a hard time just convincing myself to pick it up and read it. I may just be in a reading-slump. However, how Gus and Annie finally get together is just regularly beautiful -no fancy restaurant, no long harangues, no sparkling diamonds- just mushroom shish-kabobs and a Mr. Rogers re-run. When someone confesses their love to me, I want it to be done in the same manner.
I was probably swayed by the narrator being a teacher in the Pacific NW. And that it made me laugh aloud. The appendices were a bit odd--I would have woven them into the book earlier, as one might really list one's class or throw in a page of notes about water into the middle of one's journal. Having virtually no connection with the military, it was also interesting to hear the perspective of someone who really, truly, honestly, supports the soldiers but not the war.