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A review by falconerreader
This Full House by Virginia Euwer Wolff
3.0
Dislikes:
*A bit TOO much science vocab and facts to keep my interest. I skimmed a few of those chapters.
*Wildly contrived plot, although ultimately touching.
*The author lives about 20 miles from me, yet the book's setting seems to be No Place. The inscription on the skyway at the university is that of PSU's ("Let Knowledge Serve the City") but the character's take different buses to get there and to the museum, which in reality are blocks apart. I suppose it's meant to be universal, but because I know this place, it seems weird and ungrounded. There's not even any weather.
Likes:
*I still love the characters: LaVaughn, Jolly, the kids, the mom, the friends.
*I admire the way LaVaughn has grown up in the course of the three books. Those years between freshman and senior year really do involve big changes, and you see how LaVaughn goes from still-nearly-a-kid to really-almost-grownup while still retaining her essential personality.
*Resiliance. These characters don't have great lives and don't always make great decisions, and not everything works out for the best, but my God are they resiliant, each and every one of them.
*A bit TOO much science vocab and facts to keep my interest. I skimmed a few of those chapters.
*Wildly contrived plot, although ultimately touching.
*The author lives about 20 miles from me, yet the book's setting seems to be No Place. The inscription on the skyway at the university is that of PSU's ("Let Knowledge Serve the City") but the character's take different buses to get there and to the museum, which in reality are blocks apart. I suppose it's meant to be universal, but because I know this place, it seems weird and ungrounded. There's not even any weather.
Likes:
*I still love the characters: LaVaughn, Jolly, the kids, the mom, the friends.
*I admire the way LaVaughn has grown up in the course of the three books. Those years between freshman and senior year really do involve big changes, and you see how LaVaughn goes from still-nearly-a-kid to really-almost-grownup while still retaining her essential personality.
*Resiliance. These characters don't have great lives and don't always make great decisions, and not everything works out for the best, but my God are they resiliant, each and every one of them.