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
ISBN: 0843953136 Global Overview for this book
4 journalers for this copy...
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.
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.
Sending to stellarv. Enjoy! :)
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
Thanks for the offer!!!
Reserved for the January Y/A Swap at Bookobsessed.com
This arrived safe and sound in the mail today! Thanks so much, StellarV!
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.