The Luckiest Girl by Beverly Cleary7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel like lately I'm surrounded by people who are only interested in judging and questioning my differences (expat) instead of enjoying (or hell, I'd just take respecting) them, so I think Shelly's attitude particularly stood out and struck a chord for me. Shelly's wonder and openness about a new place, a new style of living, meeting new people - all of it was inspiring. Desperate over the idea that her life is never going to change she begs her mom to allow her to go.ĭecades later I still really like this book. Coincidentally, that same morning her mother received a letter from her old college roommate, inviting Shelly to come live with her and her family for the school year in California. ![]() In a fit of pique after an argument over a rain slicker one morning, she shoves her mother's roses down the garbage disposal. Shelly is an only child with a helicopter mom and a typically 50's dad in Oregon. ![]() Then I was cleaning up some book records and there is was. Flashes of scenes would pop into my head at random moments here and there and I started to think I'd need to hunt down the book to re-read it. This is one of the rare books I read as adolescent that stayed with me over the years, although I'd long forgotten the title and the author. Shelly comes closer to passing as a typical teen of today. It's still dated, certainly, but it doesn't feel as screamingly obvious. Another throw back to the 1950's but this book has a totally different voice. ![]()
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