A review by herlifewithbooks
Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays by Rebecca Stern, Brad Wolfe

3.0

Very fun stories, but I question the function and audience. The introduction presents this book as a set of examples an adult may provide a teen to inspire their essay-writing abilities. However, half of the essays in the book are personal memoirs - fun to read, but maybe not entirely appropriate for school assignments. The rest are kind of jokey, tongue-in-cheek take-offs of familiar essay topics.I guess the implied intent is to help young writers not hate their essay assignments, but I don't think any of these essays necessarily do a good job of proving what they are supposed to be proving. Lots of bad logic and humor, not a lot of good argumentation. They come off as parodies... in particular, adults parodying student writing. Which feels a little inappropriate.

This is all my Former College Writing Tutor Self speaking.