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lauren9teen87's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
boleary30's review against another edition
1.0
autobiography of friends since K, one gets cancer, sounds touching, but it is really just boring.
amandamay83's review
4.0
Back in HS, I read Greene's book, "Be True to Your School" and loved it. (I'm certain I still have a battered copy laying around at my parents'.) Somehow, though, I'd never connected the author of that book to the other books he'd written. Only when I received an email that "And You Know You Should Be Glad" did it suddenly click that this was all the same guy.
Despite the fact that "Be True to Your School" is set in 1964, something about it resonated with me. (I suppose teenage angst is the same no matter the decade.) I felt like the guys of ABCDJ were good friends of mine. Reading this book was like being reunited with old, close friends, but in the saddest way possible.
Greene has a way of writing about the passage of time that strikes a chord with me.
I'm not sure that I would have enjoyed this book so much without having read "Be True to Your School" first, but I'm glad I stumbled upon this one.
Despite the fact that "Be True to Your School" is set in 1964, something about it resonated with me. (I suppose teenage angst is the same no matter the decade.) I felt like the guys of ABCDJ were good friends of mine. Reading this book was like being reunited with old, close friends, but in the saddest way possible.
Greene has a way of writing about the passage of time that strikes a chord with me.
I'm not sure that I would have enjoyed this book so much without having read "Be True to Your School" first, but I'm glad I stumbled upon this one.
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