Wednesday, February 8, 2012

She's got it good

I think a lot of times when I am reading I try to imagine my self in the characters life. I sure did that for Alice in I Like Him, He Likes Her. I finished reading it last night and I am eager to start the next book It's Not Like I Planned It This Way. Alice's life is surely not perfect and neither is mine but its sort of that thrill to to pretend like you are living a different life that draws me to books like this. Alice is around my age and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does a good job at depicting real life teen problems. Its easy to escape into a world of make believe when reading one of her books.Through out the book you are taken though Alice's current life as well as many flashbacks of things that happened in her past. Alice has cam to readily except the fact that she no longer has a mother since hers died when she was just a little girl. It might of actually turned out to be a good thing because Alice's relationship with her father and her brother has grown incredibly. She is not afraid to talk to them about anything, even the typical girl problems. As she plans to go away for two weeks of the summer to be a camp councilor she is eager to return for her fathers wedding. Alice loves her fathers fiance which happens to be her middle school teacher. Her experience at camp might of changed her in more ways then she knows. The camp is for Troubled kids with not very good home lives and Alice struggles with giving them exactly what they need. Since each of the girls is different in many ways, she connects with them all differently. The last page of the book ends with Alice getting a package in the mail from the very girl that gave her the most trouble at camp. I am eager to start the next book and take on Alices sophomore year with her.

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