Kevin Smokler reviewed Notes to boys by Pamela Ribon
Review of 'Notes to boys' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Lord, this book is funny. Funny and sad and true. I wasn't once a teenage girl but I was certainly young, stupid, full of big ideas that came out in all the wrong places and made a giant mess of everything but mostly me. I probably would've gotten further in my chosen career had I at least figured out how to write them out like Little Pam did instead of just blurting them and then being heartbroken when they didn't work. Then repeating.
Here's what you're in for: Letters Pam-in-high-school (c. early 90s in suburban Houston) footnoted and commented by present-day-Pam (screenwriter of Moana and Wreck-it-Ralph 2) interspersed with a half dozen essays what we are seeing (youth and gender roles from 30 years ago) via the straight gaze of the present. You probably won't be fully in-it for every moment (that's really only possible if you are very mean, …
Lord, this book is funny. Funny and sad and true. I wasn't once a teenage girl but I was certainly young, stupid, full of big ideas that came out in all the wrong places and made a giant mess of everything but mostly me. I probably would've gotten further in my chosen career had I at least figured out how to write them out like Little Pam did instead of just blurting them and then being heartbroken when they didn't work. Then repeating.
Here's what you're in for: Letters Pam-in-high-school (c. early 90s in suburban Houston) footnoted and commented by present-day-Pam (screenwriter of Moana and Wreck-it-Ralph 2) interspersed with a half dozen essays what we are seeing (youth and gender roles from 30 years ago) via the straight gaze of the present. You probably won't be fully in-it for every moment (that's really only possible if you are very mean, hate whom you once were and enjoy cackling at the failings of youth)but a dip here, a sustained Sunday afternoon to follow (that's how I finished it) and "Notes to Boys" will be read but stick around inside you.
I hear it's also being adopted as an animated series. that makes so much sense
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