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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Funny and sweet and something every teenager should have to read. And there needs to be an audio version of this book--as funny and cringeworthy as the notes are to read, it's even better (and worse) when they're performed aloud.
Pamela Ribon has an amazing sense of humor and an ability to brutally and hilariously analyze Little Pam's writing. Great and honest.
Cringe-worthy in it's adolescent folly. We've all been there and I'm pretty sure too many of us don't want to go back. Avoid this one unless you want to feel like you're 12-15 again ... and not in a good way. :/
When it started, I thought it was really funny and that it’s aimed right at people like me, who thought their thirteen to fifteens were the culmination of life. Who was a writer before they realized it. When we felt things way too intensely. When we were more in love with the idea of being in love than actually being with anyone. Who thought everything they created was a precious diamond but also crap.
But I also hoped it wouldn’t get too repetitive, since it would be very easy to. Given that these are letters from an early teen girl, they weren’t exactly intended for a discerning audience. Will you wince? Will you cringe? Most definitely. Is that what the writer intended. Also yes.
I picked it up because it’s by Pamela Ribon, she helped write Wreck-It Ralph 2, Moana, several award-winning comics (including Rick & Morty) & graphic novels, and columns, and anime. She’s been all over the place and she’s damn good. And it’s a delight to peek into what she did when she was a kid and we can know she’s not alone. You get a flavor of Texas, a flavor of the west coast. This is a woman who thought losing her virginity was the ultimate sign of adulthood and made elaborate plans to do so, then wondered why it failed.
There are times when it gets dark. Like trigger warning dark. It seems like little Pam’s compass is spinning wildly and you want to reach through the book and tell her it will be all right. Yes, it can get repetitive slogging through each letter chock full of teen bad poetry cliches that might make an Evanescence songfic avert their eyes. But I’m glad she and I survived those teenage years so that she could write a book and I could read it. And I plan on it not being the last of her work I partake.
But I also hoped it wouldn’t get too repetitive, since it would be very easy to. Given that these are letters from an early teen girl, they weren’t exactly intended for a discerning audience. Will you wince? Will you cringe? Most definitely. Is that what the writer intended. Also yes.
I picked it up because it’s by Pamela Ribon, she helped write Wreck-It Ralph 2, Moana, several award-winning comics (including Rick & Morty) & graphic novels, and columns, and anime. She’s been all over the place and she’s damn good. And it’s a delight to peek into what she did when she was a kid and we can know she’s not alone. You get a flavor of Texas, a flavor of the west coast. This is a woman who thought losing her virginity was the ultimate sign of adulthood and made elaborate plans to do so, then wondered why it failed.
There are times when it gets dark. Like trigger warning dark. It seems like little Pam’s compass is spinning wildly and you want to reach through the book and tell her it will be all right. Yes, it can get repetitive slogging through each letter chock full of teen bad poetry cliches that might make an Evanescence songfic avert their eyes. But I’m glad she and I survived those teenage years so that she could write a book and I could read it. And I plan on it not being the last of her work I partake.
All I can say is that I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud as I read this on the subway, but I did not succeed.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
fast-paced
This one took me forever to get through. Not because it's lacking in awesome, but because it was so painful. All the letters I wrote to boys. All the crazy that ran through my head. It's all here, and felt a little like reliving the most awful parts of adolescence. Except I'm still sort of crazy in this way. I no longer write the letters, but I still have mortifying, overthinking, thoughts. And I'm still prone to giving away too much, too soon.
If only pamie were my mother. She could probably have helped me feel more ok about my crazy.
If only pamie were my mother. She could probably have helped me feel more ok about my crazy.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
I'm somewhat inclined to believe this book would be stronger if its central conceit were less dominant a component of it. It's at its most compelling when stories are being told in retrospect, and can get a bit repetitive when the author is just sarcastically reacting to every other line in something she wrote in middle school. That said, I can relate strongly to a lot of the angst here, it reminds me almost too much of my own thought processes in middle and high school. The book is generally interesting, entertaining, and at times even emotional (or harrowing, at least to me) despite its generally upbeat tone. Pamela Ribon spends a lot of time poking fun at her childhood self, but it's clear that she has a lot of compassion and sympathy for what that little girl went through.