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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846984.Love_Stargirl?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Love, Stargirl" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1195088814m/846984.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846984.Love_Stargirl?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Love, Stargirl</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12696.Jerry_Spinelli">Jerry Spinelli</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14332730?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars God, I am so elated right now. I just finished this book and it was, I am happy to say, just as extrordinary as the first.
 
 You know, I started reading this because I'm a senior in high school and I'm tired of assigned books of Great Literature. Don't get me wrong, The Scarlet Letter is one of my favorite novels ever, but I wanted something lighter and when I heard Stargirl, the book that WAS my sixth grade had a sequel...well, I ran out and got it.
 
 And I loved it. Oh god, do I love this book. It's as magical, sweet, emotional and zany as the first book, if not more so. We hear the titular heroine speak, as you've probably noted from other reviews and she's really everything we could expect. She's never cloying, trite, or too fished-up-from-the-sixties--she is, as she would have us percieve her, entirely Stargirl Caraway.
 
 I don't understand the complaints that she's somehow diluted in this book--she's as ukulele strumming and rat-toting as usual, she smashes all the clocks in the house for god's sake and the book's climax takes place during her 5 AM Winter Solstice party. But beyond that, people are saying she's turned into this moon-eyed teenager, pining for her white knight to come home, and to that I say bullshit ( a word that does appear in this book, though in a less abrasive way). This reminds me of another book for young readers that's read by all ages anyway (yes, Harry Potter). When the sixth book came out, I knew a few people that railed against Hermione, the smart, pragmatic one, going all weepy over a *boy*. Oh, heavens and calamity, no! I'm not going to lie, Stargirl spends a good chunk of this book upset over the loss of Leo (or Starboy, as she once addresses him) and yeah, the book is essentially a massive letter/diary to him. But so what? She can't be...well, a teenage girl? One of the core components of her character is that she's intensely emotional and besides that dreamy--when she falls for a boy, she's going to fall hard and she does. This doesn't mean she isn't the fairylike Ondine (hee hee) we've come to love--frankly, I liked that it humanized her. If we hadn't seen this sighing girl within, she would've been a bit too enchanting, crossing that line into Role Model for Grade Schoolers and yeah...that would've sucked. So psshhh to all of the qualms with her feelings--they were some of the best parts of the book in my opinion.
 
 Oh yeah: Dootsie was cute too. Go read this book.
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Tulleskirt's review
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recommended for: anyone and everyone

God, I am so elated right now. I just finished this book and it was, I am happy to say, just as extrordinary as the first.

You know, I started reading this because I'm a senior in high school and I'm tired of assigned books of Great Literature. Don't get me wrong, The Scarlet Letter is one of my favorite novels ever, but I wanted something lighter and when I heard Stargirl, the book that WAS my sixth grade had a sequel...well, I ran out and got it.

And I loved it. Oh god, do I love this book. It's as magical, sweet, emotional and zany as the first book, if not more so. We hear the titular heroine speak, as you've probably noted from other reviews and she's really everything we could expect. She's never cloying, trite, or too fished-up-from-the-sixties--she is, as she would have us percieve her, entirely Stargirl Caraway.

I don't understand the complaints that she's somehow diluted in this book--she's as ukulele strumming and rat-toting as usual, she smashes all the clocks in t...more God, I am so elated right now. I just finished this book and it was, I am happy to say, just as extrordinary as the first.

You know, I started reading this because I'm a senior in high school and I'm tired of assigned books of Great Literature. Don't get me wrong, The Scarlet Letter is one of my favorite novels ever, but I wanted something lighter and when I heard Stargirl, the book that WAS my sixth grade had a sequel...well, I ran out and got it.

And I loved it. Oh god, do I love this book. It's as magical, sweet, emotional and zany as the first book, if not more so. We hear the titular heroine speak, as you've probably noted from other reviews and she's really everything we could expect. She's never cloying, trite, or too fished-up-from-the-sixties--she is, as she would have us percieve her, entirely Stargirl Caraway.

I don't understand the complaints that she's somehow diluted in this book--she's as ukulele strumming and rat-toting as usual, she smashes all the clocks in the house for god's sake and the book's climax takes place during her 5 AM Winter Solstice party. But beyond that, people are saying she's turned into this moon-eyed teenager, pining for her white knight to come home, and to that I say bullshit ( a word that does appear in this book, though in a less abrasive way). This reminds me of another book for young readers that's read by all ages anyway (yes, Harry Potter). When the sixth book came out, I knew a few people that railed against Hermione, the smart, pragmatic one, going all weepy over a *boy*. Oh, heavens and calamity, no! I'm not going to lie, Stargirl spends a good chunk of this book upset over the loss of Leo (or Starboy, as she once addresses him) and yeah, the book is essentially a massive letter/diary to him. But so what? She can't be...well, a teenage girl? One of the core components of her character is that she's intensely emotional and besides that dreamy--when she falls for a boy, she's going to fall hard and she does. This doesn't mean she isn't the fairylike Ondine (hee hee) we've come to love--frankly, I liked that it humanized her. If we hadn't seen this sighing girl within, she would've been a bit too enchanting, crossing that line into Role Model for Grade Schoolers and yeah...that would've sucked. So psshhh to all of the qualms with her feelings--they were some of the best parts of the book in my opinion.

Oh yeah: Dootsie was cute too. Go read this book....less

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