Girl by Blake Nelson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Girl
Book Review: Blake Nelson's Girl - just like reading her diary.
Summary: 4 Stars
After pouring through many of Pete Fromm's works (As Cool as I Am & How This All Started specifically) and now finishing up Blake Nelson's Girl, I am at loss as to how these two men can write so efficiently in the tone of a young female or reflect on the life of one so honestly and realistically.
There are so many stereotypes that Blake could have easily fallen victim to, but he keeps his story away from most of them. Being a young female myself (not as young as the heroine of the story, but close enough to that age to have it still fresh in my mind) I was stuck in the book. I was captured and finished it up in a day, reading whenever I found the time. The tone of Blake's writing demands that, at least for this story. I couldn't count the number of 'and's in this book, because many of the passages are intertwined and ramble on as if you are really sitting down in the head of a 17 year old girl. It isn't structured along a clear cut 'paragraph, paragraph, paragraph' - the book is written well in a journalistic tone of someone experiencing her four years of high school. The story follows her ups, downs, growths, experiences, discoveries, heartaches, and surprises without ever leaving the "...And I went down to visit her because she was upset. Afterwards we decided to go get frozen yogurt downtown and look for Todd..." tone.
The central character is frustrating, in the way a mother might get nervous picking up the journal of her daughter and finding out what she's been up to, yet she constantly draws you back with the choices she makes and her reasonings behind them.
This book aptly portrays the shallow, sweet world of being a teenage girl - and her inner thoughts will always disarm you into reading the next page...
Book Review: Rock & Roll
Summary: 5 Stars
A rock & roll story you talk about all the time but never read. Bands make it big, sex, drugs, fights, accidents, death and so much more. All revolving around music.Book Review: when you're unsure
Summary: 3 Stars
I understand why people wouldn't like this book because it's not that greatest portrayal of teenagers today or whatever but it was addictive to me and when wondering if you should buy or read this book, read the little intro and if you want to know more/read on or can relate and think you'll like it I say go for it but be prepared to deal with one of those girls who doesn't fit in a high school clique and was probably a groupie in a past life.