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| Original Title: | Going Vintage |
| ISBN: | 1599907879 (ISBN13: 9781599907871) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Lindsey Leavitt
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.6 | 7124 Users | 1176 Reviews
List Of Books Going Vintage
| Title | : | Going Vintage |
| Author | : | Lindsey Leavitt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2013 by Bloomsbury |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Teen |
Relation During Books Going Vintage
When Mallory’s boyfriend, Jeremy, cheats on her with an online girlfriend, Mallory decides the best way to de-Jeremy her life is to de-modernize things too. Inspired by a list of goals her grandmother made in 1962, Mallory swears off technology and returns to a simpler time (when boyfriends couldn’t cheat with computer avatars). The List:1. Run for pep club secretary
2. Host a fancy dinner party/soiree
3. Sew a dress for Homecoming
4. Find a steady
5. Do something dangerous
But simple proves to be crazy-complicated, and the details of the past begin to change Mallory’s present. Add in a too-busy grandmother, a sassy sister, and the cute pep-club president–who just happens to be her ex’s cousin–and soon Mallory begins to wonder if going vintage is going too far.
Rating Of Books Going Vintage
Ratings: 3.6 From 7124 Users | 1176 ReviewsCrit Of Books Going Vintage
4.5 starsInitial Impressions:How stinkin cute. I really loved this book! I don't know what I was expecting but I really liked the concept for Mallory's decision to "go vintage" and how she discovers who she is. Review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: This book was so stinkin cute!!! I honestly didnt expect to have so much fun reading it, but it was light, funny, and just really easy to read. I simply adored the concept of Mallorys idea to go vintage, mostly because of the roughTo see full review click hereI'm sort of obsessed with the late 1950's/early 1960's. A lot of my favorite movies come from that era. I love the dresses. Interesting enough, do you know that Banana Republic has a Mad Men inspired collection? And it was the one time in history America had a semi glamorous president. Grant it, the whole Mr. President Marilyn Monroe episode sort of soiled that but whatever. So yeah, a YA novel that has a heroine who wants to go back to that era. I thought, hey that
Pre-reading thought:Absolutely stoked I got the UK edition, because - have you even seen that GORGEOUS cover?! Aww :)After-reading thoughts:I'm so delighted I decided to get this book on a whim last week :)Loved the whole aspect of going vintage, as Mallory does for a while. It made me actually think a lot about the way it has become so normal to run to the internet for any little tidbit and one tiny passage in the book struck me: when Mallory has to wait for her mum to pick her up and doesn't
This book caught my interest the moment I learned that the main character had a certain violent streak and a love for chips with salsa and cream cheese. Also, there's apparently this thing called milk toast, and it sounds so disgustingly DELICIOUS.Anyway, back to the book. It's exactly like the summary says. A girl finds out that her boyfriend's been cheating on her with an internet chick named, of all things, BubbleYum. How do you take someone with a name like that seriously? Mallory finds out
I think most people will fall into one of two camps with Going Vintage. It'll either be a fairly enjoyable reading experience, because it's a cute, fluff read - or, it'll be an about average reading experience, precisely because it's a cute, fluff read. I on the other hand fall into a third camp, I actually think Going Vintage is more than a cute, fluff read, and it only seems like one because its message is scattered and ineffective.First of all, the message is right there, in the summary.
So much fun!Mallory breaks up with her boyfriend over . . . well, I hate to spoil it because it was very interesting, but essentially technology was involved. She decides to swear off technology and live like it's 1962, back when her grandmother was also a junior in high school. Using an old to-do list of her grandmother's, she decides to sew a dress for homecoming, join the pep club (after first starting a pep club), and find a "steady" for her younger sister if not for herself. But 1962 was
I hate to damn a book with faint praise, but the only thing that comes to mind upon finishing this novel is: blandly inoffensive? Simple, forgettable, if sometimes charming? There are characters that are sometimes funny, sometimes flat, and never really approach what I think of as three-dimensional? They came, they did their thing to various repercussions, but none really interested me worth investing in? A lot of what happened came off as predictable (view spoiler)[I saw the end of the
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