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Today I finished the second book that fits in any of the squares. It's not the second book I read this year, but I must admit, I read more fic on AO3 than books recently.
"How To Build A Girl" by Caitlin Moran
It fits in the following Bingo Squares:
Card 1 - Mix and Match: "Book where main male and main female characters don't fall in love"
[One can argue about that probably. First of all who actually is the main male character, but anyway, it's not the typical girl meets boy and they fall in love story.]
Card 2 - Random: "Book by author who shares first letter of your last name" [It's actually the first two letters of our last name we are sharing.]
Card 3 - Serious: "Book with a female protagonist"
I'm not sure how to feel about this book. At first I was confused that the autor states that the story wasn't autobiographical. I had read her book "How To Be A Woman" where she tells us about herself being a 17 year old girl from Wolverhampton getting a job as music journalist in London, amongst other things.
Now she wrote a book about a 17 year old girl from Wolverhampton getting a job as music journalist in London. Not autobiographical. Hmm.
The book did move me, especially when she (Moran or the female protagonist who is not Moran) writes about how she loves music. The book is set in the early 90s, when I started to love about the same music as she does, and when she writes "..my love - all my actual, firece love - is for the third kind of music of 1992 - the stuff that's noisy and itchy. The music where I do find myself in the songs, all written by sexy, clever, angry freaks..." that is when I love the book. There are several sentences that made me say "YES, me too".
The rest is interesting. The book is said to be funny, but it's probably not my kind of humour because I haven't laughed much while reading. This girl is so not me. I read about her in a way like I look at a foreign species. And you don't laugh about things you don't know, only wonder.
[Link to my cards and main Bingo post]
"How To Build A Girl" by Caitlin Moran
It fits in the following Bingo Squares:
Card 1 - Mix and Match: "Book where main male and main female characters don't fall in love"
[One can argue about that probably. First of all who actually is the main male character, but anyway, it's not the typical girl meets boy and they fall in love story.]
Card 2 - Random: "Book by author who shares first letter of your last name" [It's actually the first two letters of our last name we are sharing.]
Card 3 - Serious: "Book with a female protagonist"
I'm not sure how to feel about this book. At first I was confused that the autor states that the story wasn't autobiographical. I had read her book "How To Be A Woman" where she tells us about herself being a 17 year old girl from Wolverhampton getting a job as music journalist in London, amongst other things.
Now she wrote a book about a 17 year old girl from Wolverhampton getting a job as music journalist in London. Not autobiographical. Hmm.
The book did move me, especially when she (Moran or the female protagonist who is not Moran) writes about how she loves music. The book is set in the early 90s, when I started to love about the same music as she does, and when she writes "..my love - all my actual, firece love - is for the third kind of music of 1992 - the stuff that's noisy and itchy. The music where I do find myself in the songs, all written by sexy, clever, angry freaks..." that is when I love the book. There are several sentences that made me say "YES, me too".
The rest is interesting. The book is said to be funny, but it's probably not my kind of humour because I haven't laughed much while reading. This girl is so not me. I read about her in a way like I look at a foreign species. And you don't laugh about things you don't know, only wonder.
[Link to my cards and main Bingo post]
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