Book 6 : Joy School
Title: Joy School
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 10/10
Synopsis: Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the ice while skating, she meets Jimmy. He is handsome, far older than she, and married, but she is entranced. As their relationship unfolds, so too does Katie's awareness of the pain and intensity first love can bring.
I liked: Beautifully written, evocative, touching, stirring, nostolgic, perfect.
I didn't like: Nothing.
Great line: Page 13. If I ever get to be God, I'm calling at the gym teachers in the world into one room to say this: All right, knock it off!! And then I'm going to make them all change into pink formals with pink satin heels. If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot. And then I would erase it.
Another great line: Page 94. We are doing those tests for the president to see if we re too out of shape or what. I guess he is worried about us American youths and he thinks the Russian kids are all ready for the Oympics, just walking around restless in their streets, their fists hitting their palms, saying, "Lemme at 'em."
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 10/10
Synopsis: Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the ice while skating, she meets Jimmy. He is handsome, far older than she, and married, but she is entranced. As their relationship unfolds, so too does Katie's awareness of the pain and intensity first love can bring.
I liked: Beautifully written, evocative, touching, stirring, nostolgic, perfect.
I didn't like: Nothing.
Great line: Page 13. If I ever get to be God, I'm calling at the gym teachers in the world into one room to say this: All right, knock it off!! And then I'm going to make them all change into pink formals with pink satin heels. If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot. And then I would erase it.
Another great line: Page 94. We are doing those tests for the president to see if we re too out of shape or what. I guess he is worried about us American youths and he thinks the Russian kids are all ready for the Oympics, just walking around restless in their streets, their fists hitting their palms, saying, "Lemme at 'em."
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