BOOK: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
AUTHOR: E. Lockhart
SUMMED UP:
Smart, pretty girl (Frankie) rocks the boat at a private boarding school that is dominated by an exclusive, generations-old boys’ club.
MY 1.5 CENTS:
The cool part? Frankie doesn’t outsmart the good old boys in a deliberate fit of sassy girl power (although I do still love deliberate fits of sassy girl power) – she just does what feels right to her and she’s just that smart.
COOL EXCERPTS:
Frankie did not accept life as it was presently occurring. It was a fundamental element of her character. Life as it was presently occurring was not acceptable to her. Were she to mellow out - would she not become obedient? Would she not stay on the path that stretched ahead of her, nicely bricked ?
She did not get much out of therapy.
Frankie Landau-Banks is an off-roader.
The book ends perfectly with:
It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.
She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
She watches the boys as they peel off in different directions and disappear around corners and into the buildings of Alabaster.
She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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