Rock & Roll | Girl | Blake Nelson

Interestingly interesting novel | Girl | Blake Nelson

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	• Girl Blake Nelson Simon Pulse, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 103 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Blake Nelson's Girl - just like reading her diary.

After pouring through many of Pete Fromm's works (As Cool as I Am & How This All Started specifically) and now finishing up Blake Nelson's Girl, I am at loss as to how these two men can write so efficiently in the tone of a young female or reflect on the life of one so honestly and realistically.
There are so many stereotypes that Blake could have easily fallen victim to, but he keeps his story away from most of them. Being a young female myself (not as young as the heroine of the story, but close enough to that age to have it still fresh in my mind) I was stuck in the book. I was captured and finished it up in a day, reading whenever I found the time. The tone of Blake's writing demands that, at least for this story. I couldn't count the number of 'and's in this book, because many of the passages are intertwined and ramble on as if you are really sitting down in the head of a 17 year old girl. It isn't structured along a clear cut 'paragraph, paragraph, paragraph' - the book is written well in a journalistic tone of someone experiencing her four years of high school. The story follows her ups, downs, growths, experiences, discoveries, heartaches, and surprises without ever leaving the "...And I went down to visit her because she was upset. Afterwards we decided to go get frozen yogurt downtown and look for Todd..." tone.
The central character is frustrating, in the way a mother might get nervous picking up the journal of her daughter and finding out what she's been up to, yet she constantly draws you back with the choices she makes and her reasonings behind them.
This book aptly portrays the shallow, sweet world of being a teenage girl - and her inner thoughts will always disarm you into reading the next page...

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Rock & Roll

A rock & roll story you talk about all the time but never read. Bands make it big, sex, drugs, fights, accidents, death and so much more. All revolving around music.

Interestingly interesting novel

This book I found interesting and exciting to read. It seems like she is very energetic for some reason, like she never stops! I think this book is really for teenage girls or even adults. I think Andrea is the typical teenager (apart from some things in the book that some people might not be doing at that age... if you know what I mean!) But all in all I think this is a very enjoyable story and will get all your emotions up and running. There are some quite humourous bits, like when Cybil shaves her hair off, to impress a boy that Andrea ends up with anyway... OK, I will not tell you ANYMORE and you will just have to buy the book to see what other amazing, exciting adventures happen to Andrea throughout her hectic high school life!

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A perfect time capsule

I'm just about finished rereading "Girl" for the umpteenth time. Every time I read it, I'm astonished at the clarity with which Blake Nelson sees his characters. Although I'm probably older than Andrea's parents, it takes me back every time to my own youth as a wild girl, roaming the record stores and thrift shops and giddily spinning around guys in bands. As far as I can observe from the teenaged women in my circle of family and friends, Andrea is as true-to-life a girl as she ever was. A classic of its time and well worth reading, whatever your age is.

when you're unsure

I understand why people wouldn't like this book because it's not that greatest portrayal of teenagers today or whatever but it was addictive to me and when wondering if you should buy or read this book, read the little intro and if you want to know more/read on or can relate and think you'll like it I say go for it but be prepared to deal with one of those girls who doesn't fit in a high school clique and was probably a groupie in a past life.

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Meet Andrea Marr, straight-A high school student, thrift-store addict, and princess of the downtown music scene. Andrea is about to experience her first love, first time, and first step outside the comfort zone of high school, with the help of indie rock band The Color Green.

"After I saw Todd Sparrow something deep inside me began to change. It was not a big change and I didn't shave my head and I didn't really think any differently about my life or Hillside or anything like that. But one glimpse of Todd and you immediately realized how limited you were and all the things you could do if you could just break out of your normal existence and stop worrying about what everyone thought."

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