false 6353471 1 <b>Only on the internet can you have so many friends and be so lonely.</b><br><br>Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to do more than just smoke weed with her boyfriend, Rory, and work at the bookstore. She plans to seduce Dan, a thirty-two-year-old film professor. <br><br>Katie chronicles her adventures in an anonymous blog, telling strangers her innermost desires, shames, and thrills. But when Dan stops taking her calls, when her alcoholic father suffers a terrible fall, and when she finds herself drawn into a dangerous new relationship, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge. <br><br>Sexually frank, often heartbreaking, and bursting with devilish humor, <b>Undiscovered Gyrl</b> is an extraordinarily accomplished novel of identity, voyeurism, and deceit. 6540065 11 8 2009 Undiscovered Gyrl (Vintage Contemporaries Orig) total:72|5:8|4:22|3:24|2:11|1:7| 72 229 189 40 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 08:58:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:15:04 -0700 2009
On the surface is a garish young girl telling her business without censoring herself. She talks about her sexploitations with unavailable older men, her abusi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 14:29:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 21:33:01 -0700 2009
Allison Burnett is able to absorb every facet of his created characters so completely that each of his books gives the reader the feeling that the first person narrator is the actual writer. Visit his previous books - CHRISTOPHER: A TAL...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:32:24 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:33:01 -0700 2009 1 I liked it because it was written in blog form. I have read books written like diaries but never blogs.
Some other things I liked is that the author makes you feel for Katie. She is a troubled teen wh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:59:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 14:01:48 -0700 2009 Author: Allison Burnett
ISBN: 978-0-307-47312-7
Pages: 293
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Genre: YA Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5

Publisher: Only on the internet can you have so many friends and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 13:40:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 13:54:21 -0700 2009
First, this is not CATCHER IN THE RYE....more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 18:16:56 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 21:04:07 -0700 2009
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to do more than just smoke weed with her boyfriend, Rory, and work at the bookstore. She plans to seduce Dan, a thirty-tw...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 21:17:07 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:21:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 14:20:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:56:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 17:31:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 22:19:49 -0700 2009
So this book started out as a set of entertaining blog entries from a 17...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 14:03:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 20:00:25 -0700 2009
This is a series of blog entries which on the surface...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:10:46 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 08:31:18 -0700 2009
That statement sums up a lot of the life of first-person narrator, Katie Kampenfelt. Katie has decided to defer her college for a year to find out wh...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 09:34:36 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 08:34:55 -0800 2009
When I first opened the book I thought, "Oh no, not another book in blog." I bought the book without opening it and sampling it. When I was in the store I turned it over and saw that it was a modern Lolita. That was enough for me to buy it. Lolita i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 23 20:34:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 20:34:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 17:06:05 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 16:26:00 -0700 2009
I was initially attracted to the format of the boo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 19:43:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:26:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 21:56:10 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:56:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 09:15:40 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 21:56:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 22:27:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 22:32:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 10:03:04 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:09:08 -0700 2009
My only issue with the book was that she supposedly dies and goes missing after getting an ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 14:27:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 14:15:30 -0700 2009
Written in blog format by a 17-yr-old named Katie Kampenfelt*, this book details all the ramblings, romances, and overtly raunchy goings-on of teenage life – and this “gyrl” is popular, she responds to her readers’ comments in her blog entries. “Katie” makes me fe...more...]]>