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itsmytuberculosis's review against another edition
1.0
Not what I was expecting.....at all.
Made me feel like a grown woman could get over some teenage angst.
Made me feel like a grown woman could get over some teenage angst.
ubalstecha's review against another edition
4.0
This was a fun bit of sarcasm and drama. A little to old for my Grade 8s, which is too bad cause I liked it.
csmoore13's review against another edition
4.0
Definately for older teens since the depictions of being an older teen are actually realistic and not moralizing, horrifying, or sugar coated. The main character reminded of Veronica from Heathers with all the funny journal pieces.
angelasunshine's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't laugh, but at least it seemed realistic.
line_so_fine's review against another edition
3.0
The author has based this book on her actual teenage journals, diaries and poems. The voice is angsty and dramatic and arrogant (oh the pain of always believing oneself the smartest person in any room) and funny. I think it would be easy for an adult to read this and dismiss the character in the book and her concerns, and there were a couple of points where I felt that way too. But then, I would ask myself: do the notes that I still have from all my high school friends sound kind of like this? And yeah, they pretty much do. So I have to believe the voice here.
A good recommendation for people who liked The Notebook Girls.
A good recommendation for people who liked The Notebook Girls.
library_brandy's review against another edition
3.0
There’s a lot a teenager can relate to in this lightly-fictionalized memoir of the author's junior and senior years of high school: the frustrations of not having a boyfriend, the frustrations of having boyfriends who are less interesting up close than they were from afar, the frustrations of having parents who move their teen daughter across a city to a loft apartment with no privacy, the frustrations of having parents who enroll their daughter in summer acting classes but also don’t make a big deal over a poor score on the SATs. On balance (and Anita does keep the parental scorecard, weighing their infractions against their compensations), Anita knows she doesn’t have it too bad.
The book is put together with a combination of things: diary entries, parental scorecards, SAT words (and sample sentences related to Anita’s current dramas, mostly relating to boys), and some exceptionally bad poetry. The voice is authentic (I’m sure if I looked at my own high school journals I wouldn’t see a lot of differences), but that’s not the same as being compulsively readable. Some teens will find Anita’s teenage self engaging and funny, though there are undoubtedly others who will find her annoying. There’s not much foul language, but mentions of sex and sexuality, while not graphic, are frequent enough to make this a better choice for upper-high-school students rather than younger teens.
The book is put together with a combination of things: diary entries, parental scorecards, SAT words (and sample sentences related to Anita’s current dramas, mostly relating to boys), and some exceptionally bad poetry. The voice is authentic (I’m sure if I looked at my own high school journals I wouldn’t see a lot of differences), but that’s not the same as being compulsively readable. Some teens will find Anita’s teenage self engaging and funny, though there are undoubtedly others who will find her annoying. There’s not much foul language, but mentions of sex and sexuality, while not graphic, are frequent enough to make this a better choice for upper-high-school students rather than younger teens.
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