How to Build a Girl
by Caitlin Moran | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0091949017 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0091949017 Global Overview for this book
Registered by MMMaartje of IJsselstein, Utrecht Netherlands on 5/15/2016
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The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with 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.
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.
Journal Entry 2 by MMMaartje at BC Meeting 2017 in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Saturday, July 1, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (7/2/2017 UTC) at BC Meeting 2017 in Castricum, Noord-Holland Netherlands
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Please journal the book, so I will know that you found it. You can do this anonymously, or you can sign up (for free) here at bookcrossing.com. That way you will also be able to see where the book travels after you release it. If you do decide to sign up, it would be great if you mention me (Tizzalicious) as a referral. Thank you!
You are of course welcome to keep the book you found, but it would be even better if you read it and then pass it on to someone else, or leave it somewhere, so it can continue on its travels. Either way, enjoy the book!
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Als je dit boek gevonden hebt, gefeliciteerd! Je hebt er een nieuw boek bij, EN je maakt mij blij door je bezoekje aan bookcrossing.com!
Je kunt het boek melden, zodat ik weet dat het boek gevonden is. Je kunt dit anoniem doen, maar je kunt ook (gratis) lid worden van bookcrossing.com. Als je dat doet kun je zelf het boek ook volgen nadat jij het weer hebt vrijgelaten. Als je besluit lid te worden, zou het super zijn als je mijn naam (Tizzalicious) invult in het "verwezen door" vakje. Dank je!
Je mag het boek natuurlijk zelf houden, maar het zou helemaal geweldig zijn als je het nadat je het hebt gelezen aan iemand anders geeft, of het ergens achter laat, zodat het zijn reis kan vervolgen. Wat je ook besluit: Heel veel plezier met je nieuwe boek!
My father took this book as brainfood for my little sister.
Veel leesplezier !
Bonne lecture !
Happy reading !
My sister will take this book with her to Spain. If not, it will be released at the trainstation in Turnhout.
Bonne lecture !
Happy reading !
My sister will take this book with her to Spain. If not, it will be released at the trainstation in Turnhout.