Hello everyone! I know it was only a week ago that I started this book, but I just couldn’t put it down! So I am going to start the review so you can see why!! And if you didn’t participate in the read along, you can find the book here now that I can assure you it is a GREAT read!
Addie Baum and her family of Jewish immigrants move to America when she is 14 (I think). Addie is a Boston girl and she lives a life her parents can’t imagine; a life where women have more opportunities, go to movies and restaurants and wear short skirts and pointy high heels. Addie recounts her adventures as an eighty-five year old, and she shares everything, from the library group she went to on Saturday nights, to the one-roomed apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to her disastrous love life and her dreams of finishing high school and going to college. Addie shares all of her stories with wit, humor and reminisces about her young self.
I have one word that describes this story: charming. Addie is hilarious, hard-working, smart, curious and lovable. Her adventures and stories are always interesting. I flew through this book because it is so easy to get lost in the story. And I am the kind of person who LIVES for being lost in an adorable story, and that was exactly what happened with The Boston Girl.
Anita Diamant also has an awesome writing style that just flows easily and beautifully. She pays a good deal of attention to details and humor, and her characters are lively and unique. Each character is paid special attention with intriguing characteristics. Diamant is also a master of writing with emotion. You can feel the happiness, anger and grief that the characters feel. Everything in this book just feels so alive!
I highly recommend this book, so go check it out and stop by on Monday for a review of Self-Deliverance: The Death and Life of Arthur Koestler!
Addie Baum and her family of Jewish immigrants move to America when she is 14 (I think). Addie is a Boston girl and she lives a life her parents can’t imagine; a life where women have more opportunities, go to movies and restaurants and wear short skirts and pointy high heels. Addie recounts her adventures as an eighty-five year old, and she shares everything, from the library group she went to on Saturday nights, to the one-roomed apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to her disastrous love life and her dreams of finishing high school and going to college. Addie shares all of her stories with wit, humor and reminisces about her young self.
I have one word that describes this story: charming. Addie is hilarious, hard-working, smart, curious and lovable. Her adventures and stories are always interesting. I flew through this book because it is so easy to get lost in the story. And I am the kind of person who LIVES for being lost in an adorable story, and that was exactly what happened with The Boston Girl.
Anita Diamant also has an awesome writing style that just flows easily and beautifully. She pays a good deal of attention to details and humor, and her characters are lively and unique. Each character is paid special attention with intriguing characteristics. Diamant is also a master of writing with emotion. You can feel the happiness, anger and grief that the characters feel. Everything in this book just feels so alive!
I highly recommend this book, so go check it out and stop by on Monday for a review of Self-Deliverance: The Death and Life of Arthur Koestler!