Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
For me personally this book was just “ok”, but I had to rate it three stars because it is a good book, I just find myself unable to relate to it as much as I did when I was younger. If you’re still of an age where you can relate to YA Coming-of-Age novels, you are likely to enjoy this book more than I did.
It’s not Dessen’s best novel, in my opinion, but it’s a solidly good, satisfying novel and I do recommend it.
I have not totally accepted that I am no longer a child. Once I do that I will have to accept responsibility for everything I do.
– Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist, page 114
Version:
Hardcover, 257 pages
Published October 18th 2016 by Blue Rider Press
What is the same about them is their voices, the way they start speaking the cruelty and have to power to stop themselves. Cruelty urges or calls them onward, and they dive more deeply into it, as if they could get drunk on cruelty, addicted to violence, swallowed up and besotted as if they heard their own voices speaking the words and fell in love with the sounds of violence in their own voices.
– Cynthia Voigt, Orfe, page 4-5
Version:
Paperback, 128 pages
Published August 1st 1994 by Scholastic
Welp, I’m cutting out a little early because I have to keep to a schedule or I get all out of wack.
I’m pretty satisfied with how I did today because I’ve been reading more slowly lately. As some of you know I wasn’t able to do Paper Valentine for this Read-A-Thon because I went and finished the whole thing yesterday by accident… But I managed to read 2 books cover-to-cover and got some pages in on two of the books I’ve been reading for like MONTHS.
Book one was a novella, Orfe by Cynthia Voigt, that I have been meaning to read for years. It’s pretty much the only Voigt novel I hadn’t gotten to yet. It was strange, I could hear Voigt’s voice in there but it was different from all the others in a way I can’t quite put my finger on. I’m glad I read it though.
Book two was The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher. I actually listened to the audiobook that Carrie read herself, while following along occasionally with the print version. I think my new favorite way to enjoy memoirs is when the author reads it to me. I can’t believe I hadn’t tried this before this year.
I didn’t get a lot of pages on the books I’ve been stuck on (Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell & The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen), just 3-5 each, but it’s better than nothing. And I’m hopeful I’ll be able to keep up on The Truth About Forever. As for Wives and Daughters, I think I’m going to have to do that thing where I make myself read a chapter a week. If that doesn’t help I’m going to DNF it, as much as I hate to.
I’m so glad I did this Read-A-Thon, it was a great motivator! Thanks BibliophilicWitch!
I keep thinking that there has to be some other place between sane and crazy, some mysterious territory that rests in the middle.
– Brenna Yovanoff, Paper Valentine, page 167
Version:
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published January 8th 2013 by Razorbill
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
If you decide to read this autobiography, I definitely recommend you try the audiobook read by Carrie and Billie, it really adds to the experience.
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