Susan Juby
Paperback | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.39 | 1913 Users | 216 Reviews
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| Title | : | Alice, I Think (Alice MacLeod #1) |
| Author | : | Susan Juby |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | May 11th 2004 by HarperTeen (first published January 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Teen. Humor |
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3.5 stars rounded up because it's a debut novel I know how good Susan Juby's writing is nowAlice is a character; funny, eccentric, socially introverted and a true 15 year old. Her parents are still hippies, her brother is the only one in the entire family who has it together, and she lives in the small town of Smithers, BC (but it's bigger than Houston, BC). After being pulled out of public school at a very young age when the kids at school couldn't understand why she dressed as a hobbit and bullied her, she has been homeschooled ever since. However, even that didn't work out socially, since she didn't fit into that group either. However, in order to make her new counsellor feel successful about himself (he's clearly insecure), she agrees to go back to school and is sent to an alternative school where, lo and behold, that same bully who threw rocks at her is there.
This book is witty and has many good things going for it, but it's a debut novel. Having read Susan's Juby's two adult novels, I have to say that her writing is better now and suits adult novels. Still, I've started the second book in this trilogy and it already shows that her writing was improving by the second time around.
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| Original Title: | Alice, I Think |
| ISBN: | 0060515457 (ISBN13: 9780060515454) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Alice MacLeod #1 |
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Ratings: 3.39 From 1913 Users | 216 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books Alice, I Think (Alice MacLeod #1)
Coulden't finish it because it was so pathetic!!!!I wanted to like this. When I was 13 or so I did, and my mother did, but when I reread the series (or at least, the first three) in high school, I struggled to finish, constantly thinking 'there WAS a reason I read it in the first place' and struggling with my obsession with finishing books. They are a nice, easy read, for if you don't want to think too much, and Susan Juby seems like a nice woman- she lives/lived near where I grew up for a while. The problem is Alice. She is simply infuriating.
Is it sad or scary that I related to Alice so well? There were so many instances where I thought "oh my god, I would probably have done the same thing" or "that's me to a tee". Well, I'll say this. Alice has way more guts than I do!! Or maybe she was just clueless. I certainly wouldn't have worn those clothes or had the nerve to go to my first day of school covered in poorly applied makeup!! I felt for Alice but at the same time I cheered her on. Not all of us were meant to be social butterflies
Amazing. The funniest book I've read in a while.Susan Juby manages to keep character funny but still realistic and everything in the book is so relateble.
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I don't think I've rated a book one star at all this year. This was awful. Truly awful. The only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to know how this train wreck ends. And it couldn't even a deliver a satisfying end!
At one point while reading this book, I laughed so hard I actually cried. I had an absolute blast reading this! Maybe I will write a review at some point. Does anyone even care about fun-silly YA from the year 2000 anymore? From the 3.38 average rating, I would guess not. It seems like there's only a handful of us who still read these silly lighthearted OTT reads, like Dating Disasters of Emma Nash, Confessions of a High School Disaster and, of course, Georgia Nicolson. I love them, can't lie 😂
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