by Lili Wilkinson
Yet another book that appears to be afraid of actually using the word bisexual. This is a really frustrating trend and I wish it would stop. More to the point, the main character (Ava) seemed to be completely unaware of the existence of bisexuality. The entire book made it seem like she was the only...
nice, very and after so many bad books this was really, really nice :) i am so happy!!!! (and now to choose wisely the next book)
Clueless from Ty's perspective, PINK was a thoroughly entertaining "find yourself" teenage story. The adults portrayed are a little extreme (Ava's parents "Pat and Dave" vs. Sam's ice-queen mom), and as a straight person I can't really comment on the orientation questions, but the sheer who-do-I-li...
I really liked this. Was assigned to read it for the class discussion about GLBTQ literature in my YA genre class.What I liked best is that it's a book about a teenager who's a lesbian, and she's already come out. Now she has to navigate all kinds of universal teenage stuff about image and cliques.....
funny, SMART characters; fantastic, WITTY dialogue and just an overall FUN story. A few issues with plot and pacing, but I did end up adoring the cast and the writing and the nerdfighter-level awesome of Pink :)
There were moments when Ava went 'I'm ashamed of me' that I was nodding along… because I was ashamed of her too. This bright girl was prone to sticking her foot in it and saying the most awkward of things. Talk of normal versus common is likely to piss some one off... and I'm not the exception. But ...
I think the words "this book was written by an Australian author" would suffice. But then it just wouldn't be as fun for me :DThis book was on my mental TBR list long before I became a member of goodreads and before I had written a single review. It's taken me all this time to get around to reading ...
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