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laura_josephsen. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, LAURA HAS A BOOK!
(Yes, the title was too long for the subject box.)
ANYWAY!
I read this book as a first draft about ten seconds after it was done (lies: it was the next day, but I was VERY HIGH on finishing my first Novel (for NaNo), in a 10K sprint on November 30, so it's a BIT OF A BLUR), and my enduring memory of it is OB-Wan shouting (repeatedly) from the next room "WHAT IS SO FUNNY?"
This book is VERY FUNNY.
This is for two reasons. First, it's kind of a book about writing a book - cliches, recycled plots, things that are extremely predictable - and second, the POV character is wonderfully sarcastic.
We have, at the centre of the story, Persephone, the eldest of six girls, and her creative writing homework assignment: write what you know. Sephie is concerned that "what she knows" is boring, but that doesn't stop her from keeping a journal for a year, following what happens with her family and friends, and finding out that Real Life has its moments, even if they pass you before you realize what they are.
It's a contemporary novel about growing up (or not, as the case may be), about family and heartbreak and heartnotbreak and...books. It is so, so Not My Thing. And I absolutely adore it. Sephie is completely believable, her sisters and parents are amazing, her classmates remind me of home, and her teachers crack me up. I'm so please that this book is now a Thing People Can Own, because I loved reading it in its early stages, and now YOU CAN READ IT TOO (on sale, until Christmas, even!).
I can't give this book a rating. I've been thinking about it all night (all YEAR), and I just can't do it. I loved it SO MUCH though, on both a personal and professional level. And I would recommend it to any teenage girl, anyone who WAS a teenage girl, anyone who likes to write, and anyone who can appreciate the brilliance of the nickname "And-drama-queen" (which still makes me snicker, two years later).
laura_josephsen. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, LAURA HAS A BOOK!(Yes, the title was too long for the subject box.)
ANYWAY!
I read this book as a first draft about ten seconds after it was done (lies: it was the next day, but I was VERY HIGH on finishing my first Novel (for NaNo), in a 10K sprint on November 30, so it's a BIT OF A BLUR), and my enduring memory of it is OB-Wan shouting (repeatedly) from the next room "WHAT IS SO FUNNY?"
This book is VERY FUNNY.
This is for two reasons. First, it's kind of a book about writing a book - cliches, recycled plots, things that are extremely predictable - and second, the POV character is wonderfully sarcastic.
We have, at the centre of the story, Persephone, the eldest of six girls, and her creative writing homework assignment: write what you know. Sephie is concerned that "what she knows" is boring, but that doesn't stop her from keeping a journal for a year, following what happens with her family and friends, and finding out that Real Life has its moments, even if they pass you before you realize what they are.
It's a contemporary novel about growing up (or not, as the case may be), about family and heartbreak and heartnotbreak and...books. It is so, so Not My Thing. And I absolutely adore it. Sephie is completely believable, her sisters and parents are amazing, her classmates remind me of home, and her teachers crack me up. I'm so please that this book is now a Thing People Can Own, because I loved reading it in its early stages, and now YOU CAN READ IT TOO (on sale, until Christmas, even!).
I can't give this book a rating. I've been thinking about it all night (all YEAR), and I just can't do it. I loved it SO MUCH though, on both a personal and professional level. And I would recommend it to any teenage girl, anyone who WAS a teenage girl, anyone who likes to write, and anyone who can appreciate the brilliance of the nickname "And-drama-queen" (which still makes me snicker, two years later).
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:14 pm (UTC)Andramaqueen was MY IDEA! *beams*
I love this book alot too. *snicker* (Oh dear, what have you done?)
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:16 pm (UTC)(It's back up to $2.99, so I didn't.)
I WANT THIS ALOT (http://www.arixystix.com/blog/2010/11/17/the-alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything/)!
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:17 pm (UTC)An-drama-queen was indeed Faith's idea when I was talking about Andromeda being a drama queen. HEEE. :D
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:26 pm (UTC)I can though, LOL. A 10/10 for getting a gun-lovin', sci-fi-cravin' fangirl like me to totally abandon her normal genre and fall in love with this book. :D :D
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