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Secret Scribbled Notebooks
Seventeen-year-old Kate writes all of her dreams and thoughts in a set of three secret notebooks. In each of these journals, she records her daily life, from caring for her baby niece and making friends to dealing with the loss of parents and yearning for the future. Through reading, writing, and experiencing teenage life, Kate discovers love, friendship, and her own ambitions. This beautifully written portrait of a girl in her last year of school explores the universal stresses, joys, confusions, and observations of life as a teenager.
220 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2004
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About the author
Joanne Horniman
18 books22 followersJoanne Horniman grew up in a country town in northern NSW. She read books, rode her bicycle around the countryside, and had a glove puppet theatre company with her best friend. They 'toured' their show to all the classes in the school. On leaving school, Joanne went to Sydney, completed an arts degree and worked as an editor after a stint washing dishes in a pub. Since then she has worked as a teacher at TAFE and university, and she now lives with her family on a small acreage in the bush, where she plants rainforest trees and looks after a trio of chooks and a duo of ducks.
When did you start writing?
'When I was about six, I think. I had a collection of notebooks I wrote in. I gave up for a while in primary school, because I didn't like the topics the teachers set, but in high school I wrote short stories at home and sent them away to magazines.'
If you weren't a writer, what would you be?
'Very bored. Nothing else interests me. Except, perhaps, being a puppeteer, or Dr Who.'
When did you start writing?
'When I was about six, I think. I had a collection of notebooks I wrote in. I gave up for a while in primary school, because I didn't like the topics the teachers set, but in high school I wrote short stories at home and sent them away to magazines.'
If you weren't a writer, what would you be?
'Very bored. Nothing else interests me. Except, perhaps, being a puppeteer, or Dr Who.'
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February 3, 2015
“My name is Kate O’Farrell and I am seventeen years old. I am in my last year of school, and when that is over I will be leaving this place for good – going to a real city where I will begin my new life. I have long red hair and pale skin. I like staying up very late at night. It is my ambition to see the sun rise, but sadly, I am always asleep by then. I love eating and reading, preferably at the same time. I am very tall, and too thin. I have never been in love.” (from the back cover, and pp. 1-2)
This is how it starts out. But it becomes so much better. There’s a richness of language, thought, and feeling that this passage doesn’t even begin to touch. Kate and her sister, Sophie, were abandoned by their parents when they were just little girls at a bed and breakfast in Lismore (Australia) called Samarkand. They were raised by the owner of the B&B, Lil, who shortly thereafter lost her own biological (and grown-up) son and came to treasure the girls as her own. They are, all three of them, book and literature lovers and the text is interspersed with information and quotations and thoughts about what they’re currently reading. We come to know them through Kate’s notebooks (red, yellow, and blue) and “wild typewritten pages.”
This is a languid and delicious read with dreamy, quirky characters who are trying to find themselves. It’s not action-driven, but thoughtful and wandering – very much like a journal – because the journey is sometimes even more important than the final destination. Lovers of language and journals will adore this.
Readalikes:
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Montmaray novels (trilogy) - Michelle Cooper (A Brief History of Montmaray, The FitzOsbornes in Exile, The FitzOsbornes at War)
This is how it starts out. But it becomes so much better. There’s a richness of language, thought, and feeling that this passage doesn’t even begin to touch. Kate and her sister, Sophie, were abandoned by their parents when they were just little girls at a bed and breakfast in Lismore (Australia) called Samarkand. They were raised by the owner of the B&B, Lil, who shortly thereafter lost her own biological (and grown-up) son and came to treasure the girls as her own. They are, all three of them, book and literature lovers and the text is interspersed with information and quotations and thoughts about what they’re currently reading. We come to know them through Kate’s notebooks (red, yellow, and blue) and “wild typewritten pages.”
This is a languid and delicious read with dreamy, quirky characters who are trying to find themselves. It’s not action-driven, but thoughtful and wandering – very much like a journal – because the journey is sometimes even more important than the final destination. Lovers of language and journals will adore this.
Readalikes:
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Montmaray novels (trilogy) - Michelle Cooper (A Brief History of Montmaray, The FitzOsbornes in Exile, The FitzOsbornes at War)
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July 16, 2010
I learned from this book is that it is okay to feel uncertain about your next step in life.
January 22, 2008
This is certainly one of my favourite YA books. I love the whimsical sensual style, and while not much happens, it is a fascinating and beautiful read (especially if you are interested in the classics!)
Unforgettable!
Unforgettable!
May 17, 2021
prima lettura: 4/5, anno 2009
Seconda: 3/5, 23 marzo 2021
Capisco cosa mi piacque la prima volta ma non ha più lo stesso fascino.
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Seconda: 3/5, 23 marzo 2021
Capisco cosa mi piacque la prima volta ma non ha più lo stesso fascino.
https://lamenteaffilata.blogspot.com/...
August 24, 2017
Reading Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman I felt cheeky accidently picking up Kate’s private diaries. Joanne does a great job of getting into Kate’s head to be able to divulge all of her inner most thoughts. Horniman uses four points of view (three notebooks and typewritten pages) in addition to using the first person narrative enabling the reader to develop a close relationship to Kate, the seventeen year old narrator. One of Kate’s notebooks is written as more of a fantasy of herself in third person.
Joanne uses a technique of a number of different notebooks (coloured yellow, red and blue) for Kate to divulge different secrets and thoughts. The majority of the story however is written on The Wild Typewritten Pages (which we find out later she wrote with hindsight once she was given a typewriter).
Kate is at point at transition point in her life wanting to make big decisions for herself. She is thinking about love and what it means, and about home and where that is. She is ready to explore these big themes as she finishes up her final year at school.
I read it with a little scepticism about the truth in the story when it is delivered by Kate in her wild typewritten pages and notebooks as this technique allows the unreliable narrator to sneak through. At points I also wondered about the idea of using so many different notebooks to tell the story.
Having said all of that, Joanne Horniman writes a great story that takes us, the reader, into the mind of a girl in transition. She takes us on a journey with Kate and we are given her inner most secrets along the way. I was taken back to my own years of transition and the diaries I kept.
Have you read this and what did you think?
If you kept diaries as a teenager did you explore these issues and did anyone else ever get their hands on the diaries?
Joanne uses a technique of a number of different notebooks (coloured yellow, red and blue) for Kate to divulge different secrets and thoughts. The majority of the story however is written on The Wild Typewritten Pages (which we find out later she wrote with hindsight once she was given a typewriter).
Kate is at point at transition point in her life wanting to make big decisions for herself. She is thinking about love and what it means, and about home and where that is. She is ready to explore these big themes as she finishes up her final year at school.
I read it with a little scepticism about the truth in the story when it is delivered by Kate in her wild typewritten pages and notebooks as this technique allows the unreliable narrator to sneak through. At points I also wondered about the idea of using so many different notebooks to tell the story.
Having said all of that, Joanne Horniman writes a great story that takes us, the reader, into the mind of a girl in transition. She takes us on a journey with Kate and we are given her inner most secrets along the way. I was taken back to my own years of transition and the diaries I kept.
Have you read this and what did you think?
If you kept diaries as a teenager did you explore these issues and did anyone else ever get their hands on the diaries?
December 12, 2021
Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman represents teenage Kate's journey of identity; a journey seeking self-worth and purpose. Each notebook colour represents symbolic signposts in that journey. The red notebook is the current moment of thought; the blue is the limited memory and the yellow, from a third-person perspective, seems to have been inserted in some vague future. In that journey, Kate looks at her circumstances and tries to make sense of them, her role in them. To one special person, Kate introduces herself as Penelope. That seems to be a sign of wishing she had some special vibe in her presence. Sprinkled through her journey are alignments with musicians - Crowded House- and writers - Oscar Wilde. Is this a novel? an autobiography? a diary? Somehow, the concept of notebook seems to be the best-fit tag. There is a barrage of variables in these notebooks, but there is one constant, a tree, a fig tree. That tree is her home, her sanctuary for dreaming. Overall, this book is an intriguing insight into the cogs and wheels of inner, secret processes perhaps we all may recognise.
MY POETIC REVIEW: Songlines on the Winds
MY POETIC REVIEW: Songlines on the Winds
June 19, 2012
This books was found at random during a library visit. I was going through the shelf with english book and it looked interesting so I brought it home and I'm really glad I did. It's one of the best books I've read for a very long time, I consider buying it so I can have my own copy in my bookshelf and take it out to read when ever I want.
The things I liked the most was that I really could recognize myself in Kate. Her need to loose herself in books when she didn't want to deal with something and the fact that I've never experienced love (not that I'm that old, so it might not be weird. But I've never even had a crush).
It's definitely a book worth reading!
The things I liked the most was that I really could recognize myself in Kate. Her need to loose herself in books when she didn't want to deal with something and the fact that I've never experienced love (not that I'm that old, so it might not be weird. But I've never even had a crush).
It's definitely a book worth reading!
December 5, 2012
I want, I want, I want... At this point I'm just a mass of seething wants, but what I want I'm not really sure of. (Like going to the fridge, and opening it, letting all the cold air out...and not knowing what it is you want to eat. You stand with the door open hoping that something will you inspire you.) I'm standing with the door open at the fridge of life, and I want.
A poetic, haunting, sad book.
A poetic, haunting, sad book.
June 27, 2020
I read it when I was 17 or 18 years old and I still reread it. It's my favourite book because it has introduced me to everything I still dearly love: books, coffee, staying up late, second hands shops, food, falling in love, messy families, messy lives, independent women.
September 18, 2007
i loved this book from the way it was told, the character brought hope into anyone that wants to live their dreams.
July 16, 2009
Great great great book. I love Ms Horniman's descriptive writing and the depth of this novel. Fantastic!
October 3, 2010
Years on I still remember this book. I completely adore each page!
September 24, 2017
Re-reading 3rd time.
January 19, 2014
A gentle story about a young girl coming to terms with her past, and finding her own way into the future.
September 20, 2022
"The day Anastasia was born, I went out and bought three notebooks with shiny covers and fragrant paper to scribble down my secret thoughts. Three was probably excessive, but I couldn't choose which one I liked best. I love stationary, and can never resist a fragrant piece of paper or a pen with a nice grip that writes in a pleasing way upon the pages."
Now, who could resist a premise like that? Certainly not me, a similar hoarder of pens and blank books, most still waiting to be written in. Although it isn't entirely a peek at her notebook's contents like I thought -- the main plot (what there is of it) advances through "the wild typewritten pages," which are broken up with brief notebook entries -- there are still enough of the latter to get me feeling inspired to at least...try writing in one or two of mine.
My favorite of hers by far is the Yellow notebook, in which she's an invisible observer narrating the quiet, solitary day-to-day life of a young single woman with an apartment full of books and a mysterious wild fox sometimes seen outside. Very similar to the romanticized view of post-college life I imagined for myself, and so pleasant to read. The book part, at least, came true; she could be describing my own collection here:
"Books fill the shelves that line the walls of her room; she has so many they spill over into piles on the floor and over the coffee table; they are stacked up beside the sofa, so she has only to reach out her hand and it touches a book.
The books are many and various. There are new books, with clean shiny covers and crisp pages, and there are old books, rare books, with beautiful dust jackets and intriguing inscriptions inside. Their pages are beautiful in a different way from the clean, sweet-smelling white pages of the new books -- these old books have thick, cream-colored paper, browned on the edges, some as crisp as a perfectly fried egg. They all smell different - of rich, old spices, or deep green forests, earthy and damp. They evoke long-forgotten rooms and other lives."
(side note: hopefully my books don't actually smell "earthy and damp." Girl, that sounds like a mold issue.)
This book is full of beautiful writing, sometimes so pretty it went right over my head, but always captivating. There are many references to other works of literature, none of which I've read or have interest in, but they're explained well enough for me to keep up and I imagine they would really enhance this book if you knew the source material.
Along the way I fell very much in love with the sisters and the elder one's new baby, whose care they share between them since its father is long out of the picture, and look forward to reading the companion novel from Sophie's perspective just as soon as I have the patience to be get through another one on OpenLibrary, in the absence of a physical book.
Now, who could resist a premise like that? Certainly not me, a similar hoarder of pens and blank books, most still waiting to be written in. Although it isn't entirely a peek at her notebook's contents like I thought -- the main plot (what there is of it) advances through "the wild typewritten pages," which are broken up with brief notebook entries -- there are still enough of the latter to get me feeling inspired to at least...try writing in one or two of mine.
My favorite of hers by far is the Yellow notebook, in which she's an invisible observer narrating the quiet, solitary day-to-day life of a young single woman with an apartment full of books and a mysterious wild fox sometimes seen outside. Very similar to the romanticized view of post-college life I imagined for myself, and so pleasant to read. The book part, at least, came true; she could be describing my own collection here:
"Books fill the shelves that line the walls of her room; she has so many they spill over into piles on the floor and over the coffee table; they are stacked up beside the sofa, so she has only to reach out her hand and it touches a book.
The books are many and various. There are new books, with clean shiny covers and crisp pages, and there are old books, rare books, with beautiful dust jackets and intriguing inscriptions inside. Their pages are beautiful in a different way from the clean, sweet-smelling white pages of the new books -- these old books have thick, cream-colored paper, browned on the edges, some as crisp as a perfectly fried egg. They all smell different - of rich, old spices, or deep green forests, earthy and damp. They evoke long-forgotten rooms and other lives."
(side note: hopefully my books don't actually smell "earthy and damp." Girl, that sounds like a mold issue.)
This book is full of beautiful writing, sometimes so pretty it went right over my head, but always captivating. There are many references to other works of literature, none of which I've read or have interest in, but they're explained well enough for me to keep up and I imagine they would really enhance this book if you knew the source material.
Along the way I fell very much in love with the sisters and the elder one's new baby, whose care they share between them since its father is long out of the picture, and look forward to reading the companion novel from Sophie's perspective just as soon as I have the patience to be get through another one on OpenLibrary, in the absence of a physical book.
March 4, 2021
This was a different sort of book for me and though I didn't love it I didn't hate it either. I appreciated the bookish nature of the characters, book references scattered throughout and language used and although an amicable enough of a read not captivating enough for the book to be a staying on my bookshelves.
February 25, 2019
Loved, loved, loved this book and the companion book My Candlelight Novel. The story of sisters Kate and Sophie is poignant, happy, sad and incredibly real. I feel that I know these two girls intimately.
May 24, 2016
My friend gave this book to me for my birthday along with "Great Expectations", because of its relation to this. She told me to not be turned off by the front cover and give it a go! Fair warning for me, considering my aptitude to judge books by their cover! I was very uncertain about it... the cover was not just unattractive, it was strange, and not in a fascinating way. But the concept did intrigue me, so I began - and finished reading it three days later. This could mean it was a very small and easy to read book, or it could mean I was quite completely captivated with it and longed to get back to reading it every time I could. You decide.
I won't say I loved it, because I didn't: it's just not the sort of book I love. It was gritty - one of those wordy, interesting sort of books that are full of lovely detail but also full of grimey detail. It was the lovely, intricate, thoughtful details that got me through, and made me forgive the others. It was just such a thoughtful book, somehow.
It's written in two parts, alternating: the secret scribbled notebooks {one red, one blue, and one yellow} and the wild typewritten pages. The two forms blend together nicely and interestingly. I preferred reading the secret scribbled notebooks though. I just adore books that are written, at least partly, in journal form.
The other lovely part of this book is the bookishness of it. Kate is not just a book worm, lover-of-whatever-book-she-gets-her-hands-on-girl - she's a deep, classical, Virginia Woolf-Charles Dickens book worm. I adored all the references to books throughout - the ones that made a difference in her life, the ones that made her think about her life... even though this is a modern-day-Australian book, it seemed to be leafed with the breath of classics, somehow.
Altogether, I would recommend it: it's different and simple and captivating. But it's also a bit murky and some parts just made me feel a bit uncomfortable {not that anything was straight-out inappropriate - I just like pretty books :P} And who knows what this book would be like with a nice cover? It would change it completely...!
I won't say I loved it, because I didn't: it's just not the sort of book I love. It was gritty - one of those wordy, interesting sort of books that are full of lovely detail but also full of grimey detail. It was the lovely, intricate, thoughtful details that got me through, and made me forgive the others. It was just such a thoughtful book, somehow.
It's written in two parts, alternating: the secret scribbled notebooks {one red, one blue, and one yellow} and the wild typewritten pages. The two forms blend together nicely and interestingly. I preferred reading the secret scribbled notebooks though. I just adore books that are written, at least partly, in journal form.
The other lovely part of this book is the bookishness of it. Kate is not just a book worm, lover-of-whatever-book-she-gets-her-hands-on-girl - she's a deep, classical, Virginia Woolf-Charles Dickens book worm. I adored all the references to books throughout - the ones that made a difference in her life, the ones that made her think about her life... even though this is a modern-day-Australian book, it seemed to be leafed with the breath of classics, somehow.
Altogether, I would recommend it: it's different and simple and captivating. But it's also a bit murky and some parts just made me feel a bit uncomfortable {not that anything was straight-out inappropriate - I just like pretty books :P} And who knows what this book would be like with a nice cover? It would change it completely...!
October 24, 2015
I stumbled upon this book through the unlikely medium of academic children’s literature, an article discussing My Candlelight Novel, a loose sequel to Secret Scribbled Notebooks. The passages quoted in the article were enough to make me seek out the writer. Horniman’s prose is lyrical and intense but with the clarity characteristic of many Australian YA writers, (I’m thinking of Marcus Zusak, Cath Crowley and Melina Marchetta among others.)
I bought both books and fell in love. Others have felt the same, see Secret Scribbled Notebooks’ many glowing reviews on Goodreads.
Secret Scribbled Notebooks is the story of two sisters growing up in the small country town of Lismore, living in a beautiful, ramshackle old bed–and-breakfast named Samarkand. Their guardian is eccentric old Lil who took them in as abandoned children. Kate, the protagonist, intense, bookish and dreamy, was too young to remember her parents and her fantasies about them, dreams of who she might become and reality with Lil and sister Sophie, single mother to baby Hettie form the strands of the book, told through Kate’s secret scribbled notebooks and wild typewritten pages. There is a love interest, revelations around Kate and Sophie’s parentage, but really, this is the story of a girl growing up and finding her own way. As such it takes pride of place here on my ‘coming of age’ shelf.
Joanne’s latest book, About a Girl has also received wide acclaim.
And the title? From Kerouac’s Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose, a list of 30 rules for writing like you’ve never seen before.
I bought both books and fell in love. Others have felt the same, see Secret Scribbled Notebooks’ many glowing reviews on Goodreads.
Secret Scribbled Notebooks is the story of two sisters growing up in the small country town of Lismore, living in a beautiful, ramshackle old bed–and-breakfast named Samarkand. Their guardian is eccentric old Lil who took them in as abandoned children. Kate, the protagonist, intense, bookish and dreamy, was too young to remember her parents and her fantasies about them, dreams of who she might become and reality with Lil and sister Sophie, single mother to baby Hettie form the strands of the book, told through Kate’s secret scribbled notebooks and wild typewritten pages. There is a love interest, revelations around Kate and Sophie’s parentage, but really, this is the story of a girl growing up and finding her own way. As such it takes pride of place here on my ‘coming of age’ shelf.
Joanne’s latest book, About a Girl has also received wide acclaim.
And the title? From Kerouac’s Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose, a list of 30 rules for writing like you’ve never seen before.
July 15, 2015
I realised some way into this book that I must have read it before - I recognised certain turns of phrase. Horniman has a way with words, especially for small-scale description. Her actual plot skills are a bit weak, and... idek, so much of this book annoyed me. The love interest was bland. The teenage heroine's stories were exactly as self-absorbed and egotistical as you'd expect from teenage fiction (I feel this is a case where suspension of disbelief is important: if you're going to put your character's writing in your book, it should be publishable in its own right. Unless perhaps they are a child character in an adult novel).
I *enjoyed* reading this book, as I always do with Horniman - but mostly for the nostalgic opportunity to climb into her world and pretend I'm on the mid-north coast of NSW.
Finally: no one who grows up with mangoes everywhere on the mid-north coast thinks of them as 'exotic'. Or if they do this is because they have absorbed WEIRD ORIENTALIST SHIT from society at large. Pls stop.
I *enjoyed* reading this book, as I always do with Horniman - but mostly for the nostalgic opportunity to climb into her world and pretend I'm on the mid-north coast of NSW.
Finally: no one who grows up with mangoes everywhere on the mid-north coast thinks of them as 'exotic'. Or if they do this is because they have absorbed WEIRD ORIENTALIST SHIT from society at large. Pls stop.
July 5, 2015
Listened to on our way home.
Great driving company.
Made me think back to my final year of school.
That peculiar tender time between child and adult
When anything and everything is possible
And you have many and no ideas at once
Of what you will do.
Knowing only that you want to grab life
And live it.
Scary exciting!
I am now inspired to re-read and re-listen
To all the wonderful books and music
Kate and Sophie loved,
Many of which I have already enjoyed.
I am appreciating audio books more and more.
The performers/readers bring such grace and expression
To the stories adding a new dimension to our reading experience
As a family and as individuals.
Sharing thoughtful interpretations and observations about growing up with
My 12 year old twins is so valuable.
Words, descriptions and journaling are what I most loved about this story.
So much so that I plan on finding myself a copy to re-read and underline
All my favourite bits.
Great driving company.
Made me think back to my final year of school.
That peculiar tender time between child and adult
When anything and everything is possible
And you have many and no ideas at once
Of what you will do.
Knowing only that you want to grab life
And live it.
Scary exciting!
I am now inspired to re-read and re-listen
To all the wonderful books and music
Kate and Sophie loved,
Many of which I have already enjoyed.
I am appreciating audio books more and more.
The performers/readers bring such grace and expression
To the stories adding a new dimension to our reading experience
As a family and as individuals.
Sharing thoughtful interpretations and observations about growing up with
My 12 year old twins is so valuable.
Words, descriptions and journaling are what I most loved about this story.
So much so that I plan on finding myself a copy to re-read and underline
All my favourite bits.
April 7, 2014
quite a different book for me , one of the rare moments where i read a book i havent read up on before hand. i guess what captivated me about it was the simply type writing that was on the back , an excerpt of the first diary entry. i guess i just loved that way it seem like a real diary piece and not written as if to be read by others.
i really enjoyed reading this book and it hard to describe but let me just say this if this book had been presented to me in anywhere than it had been i wouldnt have been interested 7/10
i really enjoyed reading this book and it hard to describe but let me just say this if this book had been presented to me in anywhere than it had been i wouldnt have been interested 7/10
August 27, 2014
Molti non...
...capiranno il senso di questo libro. Questo è un libro confusionario, senza apparente senso. Bisogna scavare a fondo per trovarlo. Non è una storia vera, ma segue semplicemente il corso del tempo, indaga sulle piccole cose, i dettagli, gli alberi di fichi e la bontà di frutti freschi. Non è un libro con buoni e cattivi, ma fa capire che può risultare delizioso anche un racconto di vita quotidiana. E per chi dice che questo libro non ha senso... leggete a pag. 171
...capiranno il senso di questo libro. Questo è un libro confusionario, senza apparente senso. Bisogna scavare a fondo per trovarlo. Non è una storia vera, ma segue semplicemente il corso del tempo, indaga sulle piccole cose, i dettagli, gli alberi di fichi e la bontà di frutti freschi. Non è un libro con buoni e cattivi, ma fa capire che può risultare delizioso anche un racconto di vita quotidiana. E per chi dice che questo libro non ha senso... leggete a pag. 171
April 11, 2009
This book is my utmost favourite, ever.
The language and description is simply beautiful and it evokes such feeling, whenever I read it.
This is a book that I will constantly go back to and read over and over and never get tired of.
The way that Horniman describes the main character and all characters that revolve around her is amazing and I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone.
The language and description is simply beautiful and it evokes such feeling, whenever I read it.
This is a book that I will constantly go back to and read over and over and never get tired of.
The way that Horniman describes the main character and all characters that revolve around her is amazing and I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone.
December 14, 2012
We did a Children's book week focus for bookclub and I read a couple of books for that. This is one of the short-listed books for the Children’s Council (older reader). A lovely book. About a 17 year old girl. Made me feel like a 17 year old – both because of her thoughts and because I was reading the kind of book I would have liked when I was that age (or a bit younger).
December 22, 2020
Questo libro è al di sotto delle aspettative. E' poco coinvolgente e abbastanza difficile da seguire..la storia non fila bene. Devo ammettere che me lo aspettavo molto diverso. Sono rimasta delusa da questa storia. Ho provato a leggerlo più di una volta, senza mai arrivare in fondo. Ma adesso che l'ho finito posso dire che non mi è piaciuto.
February 24, 2008
I myself could not bring myself to read the full book. Though I didn't like this book, I can not go to dog it. It is a book that not much happens in. It's not my favorite, but it is other peoples'. You'll just have to find out yourself if you would like this book. Sorry I could not be of much help.
September 9, 2009
This book is aimed at young adults, but I found it a fun read. It made me giggle at her descriptions of things and people. A little humor in life is a good thing. No real plot, just the story of a brief time in her life when she grew a little and accepted her life situation.
December 5, 2008
I didn't really find this book too good. I nearly had to force myself to finish it. There's nothing that really captured my interest about it. Even though it wasn't that good, I can't say it was awful. Some of the parts were well written.
December 7, 2012
Though it's been a few years since I read this, I really enjoyed it at the time. I was probably the same age as the main character while reading it so it was more relatable but I'm sure if I reread it today I'd still like it.
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