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Laurinda
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3.5 stars
Laurinda was a good read, however I kept comparing it to my memories of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta - my favourite book in my teen years - and for me it fell short.
Perhaps if I had never read LFA my rating for Laurinda would be higher?
It was well written, looked at race and socio economical divisions, humorous at times, provoked strong reader emotions - namely anger and fury at the 'mean girls', brought back memories of high school (although I don't think that is really a good thing!).
The Lucy/Linh was really clever - read it and you'll see what I mean.
Upon reading the below paragraph, I stumbled across a problem:
All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that, if they were ever to be played in front of an audience we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame.
What does she mean teenagers? I still do this. I am not abnormal... ;)
There were great little pearls like above throughout, that apply even into adulthood because as per the quote of Kurt Vonnegut at the start of Laurinda - Life is nothing but high school
Laurinda was a good read, however I kept comparing it to my memories of Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta - my favourite book in my teen years - and for me it fell short.
Perhaps if I had never read LFA my rating for Laurinda would be higher?
It was well written, looked at race and socio economical divisions, humorous at times, provoked strong reader emotions - namely anger and fury at the 'mean girls', brought back memories of high school (although I don't think that is really a good thing!).
The Lucy/Linh was really clever - read it and you'll see what I mean.
Upon reading the below paragraph, I stumbled across a problem:
All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that, if they were ever to be played in front of an audience we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame.
What does she mean teenagers? I still do this. I am not abnormal... ;)
There were great little pearls like above throughout, that apply even into adulthood because as per the quote of Kurt Vonnegut at the start of Laurinda - Life is nothing but high school
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February 12, 2015
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