entry 4

Of the choices on the list I chose to read Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging because I had seem previews for the movie a little while ago and it look really interesting and something I felt like I would enjoy watching. The things in this book that drew me in were first the title, I have never heard such an out there title and I figured if the title was so out there maybe the book would be interesting and not like all the other books I have read and not liked. Another thing that really drew me in was again the fact that it was written in diary form. How many times do you see that when picking out a book? From personal experience … Never! I know I keep bringing up the fact that it is written in diary form and it may not seem like it would make a book that more interesting, but it really does. It also gives you a whole new way to read it because it is in 1^st person. There were some personal connections that I found between me and characters of the book. Some connections that I saw were all the things you go through being a teenage girl like fights with friends, getting annoyed with family, and all sorts of things like that. I think any girl could relater to those!! I would recommend this book to a freshman or sophomore in high school because you are right around the same age as the girl in the book so you can really relate to where she is coming from. I would also recommend it to them because some of the stuff can get a little confusing with the British terms she includes and it helps if you know a few of them, which when you’re older you can understand them more. I really enjoyed this book, it wads interesting, relatable, and not like any other book I have ever read!!

entry 3

In my book the author uses a ton of interesting and unique techniques that not many other authors use. These techniques really hooked me in when I’m reading. An example of where the author really draws you in is where it says,

“Still in my room still raining still Sunday

11:30 a.m.

I don’t see why I can’t have a lock on my bedroom door. Every time I suggest anything around this place, people start shaking their heads and tutting. It’s like living in a house full of chickens dressed in frocks and trousers. Or a house full of those nodding dogs, or a house full of. . . anyway. . .I can’t have a lock on my door is the short and short of it.

“Why not?” I asked Mum reasonably (catching her in one of the rare minutes when she’s not at Italian evening class or at another party).

“Because you might have an accident and we couldn’t get in,” she said.”

What is happening in this section of the book is that Georgia (the main character) is writing a diary of her life and this is her explaining her day and her life. Some things in this part of the book that really hooked me as a reader was that the author used dialogue, the fact that she writes in diary form with the date and time, she uses words that we wouldn’t normally use like ‘frocks’, and lastly she writes in 1^st person. A lot of writers don’t normally write with a lot of these things. I have never read a book in diary form and I really like how she does this. Since I don’t normally find book written in that form and with all those other things incorporated this book really hooked me because it was so uncommon. I personally haven’t really been hooked on a lot of books, but this one really had me hooked on page one.