Caitlin Moran
ebook | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.71 | 29013 Users | 3237 Reviews
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| Original Title: | How to Build a Girl |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | How to Build a Girl #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2015), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year (2014) |
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A hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself. It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes—but without the dying young bit. By sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less. But what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all? Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.Identify Of Books How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl #1)
| Title | : | How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl #1) |
| Author | : | Caitlin Moran |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | September 23rd 2014 by Harper |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Feminism. Young Adult. Contemporary. Humor |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 29013 Users | 3237 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl #1)
I stumbled across this book while trolling my library sites for audio books. It looked good so I put my name down on the request list, I figured it had to be good with 4 people ahead of me.As the book opened I had my doubts, I'm not a prude by any means, but this teen talking about masturbating in bed while her 6 year old brother was asleep next to her made me do a double take and look at my ipod. My mouth fell open as she talked about how her brother would want her to do this because it wouldI like to imagine, sometimes, that Caitlin Moran is my friend. We have such fun together in my head! You would love hanging with us. Shopping for orthopaedic boots, listening to shoegaze, and cackling like fishwives. We share stories about our fat, unpopular, wannabe-indie childhoods. We have loads to talk about. I love to hear her anecdotes! My friend Caitlin is proper funny. We talk a lot--Caitlin is a talker--and after a while I start to notice that I'm hearing a lot of her anecdotes more
3.5 stars! All About A Girl by Caitlin Moran came as a really nice surprise. Im usually not at all into the genre of humorous coming of age stories and after reading the blurb I wasnt sure if I might like this story or not. Considering the fact that I was at a flea market and that the book was really cheap, I decided to give it a try. And Im happy that I did, I really enjoyed this one. Growing up in an area of social housing in Wolverhampton, Johanna Morrigans is an unsecure and awkward teen
I like to imagine, sometimes, that Caitlin Moran is my friend. We have such fun together in my head! You would love hanging with us. Shopping for orthopaedic boots, listening to shoegaze, and cackling like fishwives. We share stories about our fat, unpopular, wannabe-indie childhoods. We have loads to talk about. I love to hear her anecdotes! My friend Caitlin is proper funny. We talk a lot--Caitlin is a talker--and after a while I start to notice that I'm hearing a lot of her anecdotes more
I want to hug this book and carry it around with me forever like a security blanket.
I feel like the world's biggest asshole sometimes. I so badly want to love everthing that Caitlin Moran does, but her stuff never seems to click with me. This is a novel that feel very autobiographical, about a fourteen-year-old girl whose family struggles to make ends meet in Wolverhampton, England. Johanna's chubby, awkward, and socially clueless. After embarrassing herself on local television, Johanna decides to re-invent herself. She becomes a music critic for a London magazine under the
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