The Year My Life Went Down the Loo

by Katie Maxwell | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0843953136 Global Overview for this book
Registered by terrafreaky of Overland Park, Kansas USA on 8/26/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by terrafreaky from Overland Park, Kansas USA on Sunday, August 26, 2007
Bought at GW.

From Booklist: Transplanted from Seattle to an English hamlet called Piddlington-on-the-Weld, 16-year-old Emily Williams braces herself for a year abroad. Life in a country "that still has discos!" really "irks her pickle." No makeup is allowed at school, and the uniforms are "gacky"; at home, a poltergeist haunts her panty drawer, and her parents are generally appalling. Emily vents her frustrations in wickedly funny e-mails to her best friend, spiced with British slang and her own idiosyncratic coinages. Sex is a major theme here (the cartoonish cover belies content that is solidly YA), but despite Emily's air of worldliness, her essential naivete becomes obvious when she falls in with a more experienced crew--for whom drinking and sex are apparently common leisure activities. The plot is utterly formulaic: girl has sleazebag love interest and then boots him for not respecting her personal boundaries. But like her spiritual cousins Georgia and Bridget, appealingly anguished Emily will have girls wanting to embrace her as their uber-coolio new best friend.

I read about half of this, which is generally how I handle Katie MacAlister's adult books as well. She's just not my cuppa I suppose. :)

11/5/07 - RES for Everybook VBB.

Journal Entry 2 by terrafreaky from Overland Park, Kansas USA on Thursday, November 22, 2007
Sending to stellarv. Enjoy! :)

Journal Entry 3 by Stellarv from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil on Tuesday, January 8, 2008
It arrived today!!! I think it won't take a long time for me to read and pass this along to other bookcrosser.

Thanks for the offer!!!

Reserved for the January Y/A Swap at Bookobsessed.com

Journal Entry 4 by GateGypsy from Ladysmith, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
This arrived safe and sound in the mail today! Thanks so much, StellarV!

Journal Entry 5 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Friday, March 6, 2009
It's now in Sanger, Texas. Thanks for sending it to me. It has been a long time since I played in a YA swap, and I think it's because I don't have very many good books. As soon as I read this one, I can swap it to someone else.

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