Tuesday, January 5, 2016

How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran gives me all the feels

I read this book fast. I laughed hard. I reeled with the same insatiability and hunger for more, more, more that Johanna Morrigan reels with in Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl. 

Johanna is 14, and itchy with the sense that there is something big around the corner, something big in the world for her to discover, some desperate knowledge of truth and rule and connection that she isn't quite grasping yet. And so she embarks upon the journey to find it (also known as adolescence).

The arc of this story is more like a continuous sine wave: Dolly Wilde rises to fame, falls in love, kisses everyone she wants to, has home troubles and boy troubles, and reclaims her core. I loved this book. The narrator of the audiobook, Louise Brealey, has a light and sharp British accent to match Johanna's light and sharp mind.

8 out of 10 stars - CAKB. 

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