Looking for Alibrandi is a beautiful coming of age story starring Josephine Alibrandi, an Australian girl of Italian descent. Melina Marchetta weaves together a brilliant story of love, heartache, culture and racism that will speak to girls and women of any age.The Story:Josephine Alibrandi hails fr...
Marchetta, that woman, knows how to write even if this was her debut. I now understand why such a book would deserve a movie. It's not even the writing anymore but the words in the conversations that's laden with so much meaning. This is not up to par as Jellicoe Road (which I read the day before) a...
***Read for the first time: July 20th 2008*** 4 stars.***Re-read on July 11th 2013*** 5 stars. It is really astonishing how much of Josie's extraordinary, lively character I had forgotten in mere 5 years. I still do not love her as much as Francesca Spinelli, but I adore her a big, fat lot. And it's...
If there's any book that I've read that can describe being the born-in-this-country kids of two generations of immigrants, it's this one. There's so many parts in this book that I'm like yes, this! so true! that even though Josie is crazier and brasher and willing to speak her mind without restraint...
3.5 stars. Longer review to come... It's been too long to expand this review. My thoughts below succinctly express my thoughts on this novel.Four stars for the last few chapters that "oonched" up the emotional impact, and three stars for Josephine's grandmother, Nona, who I disliked at the novel's b...
Read this once, but then read and broke it down in my last year of school when I compared it to My Brilliant Career. It's so good at showing the trials of a girl caught between two worlds and wanting them both. Wanting to fit into Australia, but also do right by her heritage.
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I would have only given this 4 stars, had the ending not spoken to me at such a point in my life. It's funny how the right book smacks you in the head at just the right time, opening your eyes, making you feel better. Granted, this book wasn't the answer, but it made me think about things for a whil...
There are spoilers in this reviewSo yesterday after possibly reading one of the best fantasy novels (The Princess Bride), I kind of wanted to cool off. I wanted to read something on the realistic side, not a chic lit, I wasn’t in the mood for those. Then I remembered this. Right after reading Saving...
Only someone who's lived near an italian family understands why on earth are Jose and her family yelling at each other one moment and hugging and kissing the next one. They're emotional, passionate, even combustive. And the family is the most important thing to them.I couldn't help to think in my no...
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