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Multiple Choice
by
Janet Tashjian (Goodreads Author)
For as long as Monica Devon can remember, she has been two things: a whiz at making anagrams and a perfectionist who obsesses about saying and doing the right thing. Seeing no other way out from her compulsive nature, she creates "Multiple Choice", a roulette word game that will force spontaneity into her life. At first the game is exciting, but soon it gets dangerous. For...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
February 1st 2001
by Apple Signature (Scholastic)
(first published 1969)
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I rated this book 4 stars.
The book "Multiple Choice," is about a fourteen year old girl named Monica who obsesses about anything and everything 98.782 percent of the time. She is extremely intelligent and can complete word puzzles in very little time, by taking phrases and unscrambling them into different phrases. In the beginning of the book, Monica takes us through her everyday life, and exactly how MUCH she obsesses. She has a brother and a sister, and while assisting her mother for their bir...more
The book "Multiple Choice," is about a fourteen year old girl named Monica who obsesses about anything and everything 98.782 percent of the time. She is extremely intelligent and can complete word puzzles in very little time, by taking phrases and unscrambling them into different phrases. In the beginning of the book, Monica takes us through her everyday life, and exactly how MUCH she obsesses. She has a brother and a sister, and while assisting her mother for their bir...more
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This book was very interesting.Its about this girl named monica that is obsisive bout being perfect,she makes up this game called multiple chioce.The game comes out to be a bad game it makes her do some stuff she dont want to do.Like write something bad about her bestfriend lynn, and locking this little boy she takes care of in his room nd then him jumping out of the window nd hurting his eye.She thinks her life is horrible and that she wants to die.She wants to stop odsessing about stuff and sh...more
I found myself entranced by the sickeningly compelling game Monica comes up with; making any decision on her own is too difficult and frightening, so she makes up four disparate options, assigns each a letter (A,B,C,D), gives her Scrabble tiles a good shake, and depending on which letter she picks out of the bag, follows through with that decision. How giddily freeing that would be, to be able to say, "It's not me! It's the universe!" Monica is one of those characters I always wish I could hug s...more
This book made me cry. Anyone who has every had a problem shutting off their mind and not thinking about past mistakes will be able to empathize with the main character in this book. We all have to make choices in life but for those people that hate to make mistakes and fail, making decisions is hard. This book would be a good read for a teenager that feels they have to be perfect or has a friend that feels that way. It is easy to feel unloveable until you learn to take the baby steps needed to...more
I picked up this book from the bargain used bin on Saturday, and finished it by the next day. It’s a quick read, and technically intended for a younger audience, but I think that adults such as myself would be interested as well. This is first person, about a 14 year old with (undiagnosed) OCD, and her struggle to be herself. I always like reading about different/weird people, since I am one myself, and absolutely identify. The whole thing with her friend was unresolved, which was my only fault...more
The idea of a girl allowing her life to be ruled by the draw of Scrabble titles both horrifies and fascinates me, and this book is where my interest in OCD started. For a while I even tried playing the same game (my takeaway from books is clearly spot-on), albeit without ever actually doing anything dangerous or problematic, but gave up when it got too hard to think of options. Still, I read this 10 years ago, and the tile imagery has never been forgotten.
As a clinical psychologist for over 31 years, I could easily relate to Monica's suffering. Driven to desperation by her obsessive-compulsive disorder. she invents a game she calls "Multiple Choice" which she hopes will free her from her obsessive thinking and behavior, but the game itself becomes an obsession and only ends up complicating her life even more.
kind of a strange book but i didn't hate it. a teenage girl trying to find herself makes up 4 choices every day and then picks a scrabble tile to pick which one she'll do. So one day she goes to school in her pjs, the most dangerous one is locking the kid she babysits in his room and he ends up getting hurt. it was an okay story but I went away from it not uplifted.
Feb 14, 2012
Owl's Nest Bookstore
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Started slowly
Humorous, although realized laughing at main character, not with her
Makes reader think that a lot of stress is our own creation, and we need to step back
Similar style to Susan Juby's "Alice I Think"
Enjoyed the realism
Could relate to Monica
Like how Monica discovered her creative side
Rated 8.025 out of 10
Humorous, although realized laughing at main character, not with her
Makes reader think that a lot of stress is our own creation, and we need to step back
Similar style to Susan Juby's "Alice I Think"
Enjoyed the realism
Could relate to Monica
Like how Monica discovered her creative side
Rated 8.025 out of 10
This is one of those books that I found totally disturbing... But couldn't stop reading. I still can't play a game of Scrabble. Completely freaked me out, it was as if I could feel this girl slowly driving herself towards insanity. I read this almost 5 years ago, and it still has an impact on me. Crazy.
Read this book in high school and forgot about it. Well, I forgot the title, I always remembered the story because it was so crazy. It kind of made me want to decide my life with Scrabble pieces, then I wouldn't have the stress of actually having to think for myself, or the responsibility of consequence.
Great book! Uses scrabble pieces for A B C D and will choose a piece out of a little sack to make decsicions for her, she thinks her life is too simple and wants to shake things up.
This book brought out very physical emotions in me - punching the book when Monica did something wrong, stroking the cover when she did something right. Loved it!
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i read this book kind of in the beginning of the school year and it's good! probably my favorite genre of books if realistic fiction so this fit perfectly.
It's been 6 years since I last read this and I still remember bits and pieces of the plot. I want to check to see if it was really that great.
Middle school book - quick read - would be interesting to some kids - about obsessive compulsive 8th grade girl.
Weird but good book about a girl who is lost, finds a way out, gets in trouble, and finds her way out and stays there.
Interesting book about an obsessive person. When Lynn confronted her, I was actually nervous.
I was really into this book as a 7th grader.
Compulsive.
Dec 01, 2007
Hong Deng
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
my friends
Shelves:
9th-grade-in-class-books
This book is really amazing. It's about this girl who always obsessed everything. She created a multiple choice game. Every time she wants to do something she will make up four choices one she normally do, one she would never do,one she thinks is really crazy and one she has to sacrifice a lot. She thought that by doing so, she won't be a perfectionist anymore, but......(Read the Book to Find out!)
Read for a half an hour. And finished the book, I really like how it ended. And how eventually everything ended up working outfit Monica.
May 05, 2012
Dymenne Etheridge
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Funny and clever I wouldn't mind try that game for a week too! ahha
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good easy read, really
Jun 16, 2013
Jessica W
marked it as to-read
Jun 15, 2013
Sarah
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I write almost every day. If I don't, the words start backing up inside me and it gets ugly fast. My mind pretty much never stops -- I have more ideas than time to write them in. Nothing makes me happier than coming up with characters and story lines for a new project. My family and friends very graciously put up with my barrage of new ideas.
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