Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas; Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know; To All the Boys I've Loved Before

 Another Georgia Nicolson reread by Louise Rennison "Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas". Georgia is tempted by Dave the Laugh, since she is a pop widow (Robbie is always off with his bandmates). Her parents drag her off to Scotland for a holiday and general hilarity ensuses.







"Including Alice" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has Alice's dad, Ben, and his fiancee, Sylvia, finally getting married and Alice is now trying to figure out where she fits in in her new blended family.








"Alice on Her Way" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has Alice having to get braces (I feel her pain). She and her friends have an fun and exciting weekend on a class trip in New York, even if Pam's mom threatens to ruin the whole thing. Pam learns a hard lesson about guys and being used. Alice is dating Sam, but when she starts to feel smothered by him she breaks it off.






"Alice in the Know" by Phyllis Reyonlds Naylor has Alice spending her summer working at Hecht's department store because her dad wants her to try working for someone else besides him for a change. When Alice takes off for vacation without telling the proper boss, she learns a hard lesson about real life jobs and is fired. She and Liz and Pam spend some time at a beach house with Pam's dad. Her friend Molly finds out she has cancer, and her friend Faith is dealing with an abusive boyfriend.




I really, really loved "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" by Jenny Han. Lara Jean is a shy and quiet girl who writes love letters to the five boys she's had crushes on in her life, and puts them in a hatbox. Not long after her oldest sister, Margot, leaves for college in Scotland, the letters get mailed out and Lara Jean is mortified. In order to keep Margot's old boyfriend, Josh, from thinking she still likes him (since he got a letter) she makes a deal with Peter, another boy she had a crush on, to pretend that they are dating to throw Josh off. But soon it becomes hard for Lara Jean to figure out where their pretend relationship ends and their *real* relationship begins. It was super sweet and I wish it would have been written 20 years ago.

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