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Cargando... Mister Posterior and the Genius Childpor Emily Jenkins
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I've always been fascinated with the 60's. This book seems to me to accurately use that time as a backdrop for the story, to truthfully show the sixties as a time of deep confusion about values. Vanessa, the narrator, is a great mix of both childlike simplicity and adult perspective, so that we readers can view the sixties in both ways at once. Some of my favorite parts were the House of Terror at Fright Night, Luke and Vanessa playing Peter Pan, and all the conversations between Vanessa and her "mouse-sitter". It was in dialogue that I thought the author best caught the time, working out, in all its nuances, what is right and what is true. Quirky. Fun. Recommended. ( ) #27, 2006 Finally got around to reading this (bookring! Ack!) book, after letting it lounge on my shelf way too long (Sorry, K!). Once I picked it up, though, there was no turning back. My attention was grabbed on the first page, and I read through this in less than 24 hours. I really enjoyed reading it. Wow, talk about a trip down memory lane in a lot of ways. The author really captured what it was like being a kid in the 1970s, right down to the playground rhymes we used to recite. (Although I sang about sliding down a "rainbow;" her version with the "razor blade" was rather disturbing). Of course, the book is supposed to be disturbing - it's about a time period when social mores were starting to change, but a lot of people's underlying attitudes hadn't quite caught up. There are also a lot of naked rear ends in the story. :) I did find myself somewhat disappointed by the ending - well, maybe disappointed isn't the right word. Part of me wanted more of the story, and part of me would have liked a few things to resolve themselves in different ways. But that doesn't really take away much from my overall enjoyment. This really was a great book - thanks, Midwinter! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A Barnes & Noble's Winter Discover New Writers pick! Woodstock was over. The Beatles had just broken up. Sesame Street was new. And people in Cambridge, Massachusetts were getting in touch with their feelings. It was 1970, the year Vanessa Brick was picked as a Super Duper Speller for the Cambridge Harmony School. In this novel from a brilliant new voice in fiction, a now-grown Vanessa looks back on a time that was less innocent than it seemed… I remember how it was to be eight. I remember the playground rhymes, the fierce cliques, and the girls we called “The Fu**ers.” That year was the year my mother adopted an unprecedented number of cats and dated an ardent nudist. I finally found out the truth about my father and his anti-vegetarianism; and my only close friend became a person I didn’t know. It was also the first time I was conscious of myself as a person with secrets; as a freethinking human being with something to say. Something not everyone wanted to hear. The year I was eight I became the most notorious child in the history of the Cambridge Harmony PTA… No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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