English language
Published May 3, 2013 by Bloomsbury.
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
It is a good plot and has great potential. But still it didn't catch me. Also the end was a bit too abrupt for my taste;)
It is a good plot and has great potential. But still it didn't catch me. Also the end was a bit too abrupt for my taste;)
A teen book without a love triangle! Mostly, I guess. Mallory finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her, dumps him in a spectacularly public manner, and then takes a moratorium on all things technology related. I'm a little tired of the "oh the '60s were a simpler time so I should act like I'm in the '60s" schtick, but as Mallory is only 16 I guess I can forgive the naivete. Now that I'm actually thinking about it, I can't seem to remember a lot actually HAPPENING in this book, but I thought it was a fairly decent snapshot of a few days in an adolescent's life. The whole subplot with the grandma having gotten pregnant in high school and giving up the baby for adoption felt like a contrived way of illustrating how the '60s WEREN'T that innocent. It also felt too rushed and or underdeveloped. However, those …
A teen book without a love triangle! Mostly, I guess. Mallory finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her, dumps him in a spectacularly public manner, and then takes a moratorium on all things technology related. I'm a little tired of the "oh the '60s were a simpler time so I should act like I'm in the '60s" schtick, but as Mallory is only 16 I guess I can forgive the naivete. Now that I'm actually thinking about it, I can't seem to remember a lot actually HAPPENING in this book, but I thought it was a fairly decent snapshot of a few days in an adolescent's life. The whole subplot with the grandma having gotten pregnant in high school and giving up the baby for adoption felt like a contrived way of illustrating how the '60s WEREN'T that innocent. It also felt too rushed and or underdeveloped. However, those are minor sticking points. Overall I really enjoyed this.
