by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
There were too many different points of view, in my opinion. (8! Probably about 7 too many.) It was confusing, especially in the beginning when I didn't know all of the different characters. I think the ones that were written as a play were the biggest culprit of this confusion. When the first "play...
2.5 starsAdequate and occasionally charming in its language, the varying styles can be a bit jarring. It moves from the third-person memoirs of Trudy to history book entries on the places and characters to letters from Ben to her granddaughter Temperance. Temperance is at home while Ben and her othe...
I wanted to love this book. Catherine Gilbert Murdock's Dairy Queen series is fantastic, with one of my favorite heroines. She has such an authentic, realistic voice. Truly, I had great expectations when this book caught my eye last time I as at the library.And not that the writing is bad. I just co...
I wanted to love this book. It had a cute format, told through letters, autobiographies, encyclopedia entries, etc., and each character had a unique voice. However, the format also served to distance me from the characters a little, and while the external plot was fairly sound, the characters themse...
I loved the one character, Trudy, but I wasn't a big fan of Princess Wisdom (a.k.a. Dizzy) :P I really want to read Princess Ben now though, just so I get some background on Nonna Ben. :DReview to come. :)
This fairy tale-like story is told in a unique and humorous way. The story is pretty simple. A boy - Tips - and girl - Trudy - are each other's only friends. The boy has a chance to go out into the larger world and writes back to the girl. They grow up with the girl believing that one day the boy wi...
I'm not quite sure how to go about this one. It's a very interesting concept and one that I thought I'd like better. I just had a very hard time working my way through all the different ways of telling the story. I'd have preferred prose instead of the diaries, memoirs, etc. Especially the play...th...
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