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The True Meaning of Smekday

(Smek #1)

Adam Rex (Goodreads Author)

4.10 · Rating details · 8,908 ratings · 1,713 reviews

It all starts with a school essay.

When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre sp ...more

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Feb 12, 2010 Stephen rated it liked it

Shelves: award-nominee-andre-norton, ya, world-in-the-shitter, 2006-2010, audiobook, invasion, comfort-food

Before reading Adam Rex’s delicious banquet of pop culture skewers dipped in saucy social commentary and served alongside a heaping helping of warm, filling comfort food, the phrase "I love J.LO" had NEVER been part of my working vocabulary. Well folks…*burp*…I love J.LO. Now, I’m not referring to "Ms. Diva from the Block junky trunk", but rather the sweetest, charmingest, most Booviful Boov ever to invade Earth in search of oranges and urinal cakes:

Smekday is definitely a feel gooder with ...more

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Mar 18, 2011 Catie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, audio, read-in-2011, sci-fi, graphic-illustrated-novels

If someone had told me that there’s a book about an alien invasion, featuring a girl on the run from the internment of humans in camps while she searches for her abducted mother, and it’s funny, and it’s for kids, I think that I would have called shenanigans. But, that’s exactly what this book is. Thank goodness I had no idea what this was about before I started, or I may not have given it a chance. Now that I’ve read it, I just want to push it off on everyone I know.

Gratuity “Tip” Tucci is only If someone had told me that there’s a book about an alien invasion, featuring a girl on the run from the internment of humans in camps while she searches for her abducted mother, and it’s funny, and it’s for kids, I think that I would have called shenanigans. But, that’s exactly what this book is. Thank goodness I had no idea what this was about before I started, or I may not have given it a chance. Now that I’ve read it, I just want to push it off on everyone I know.

Gratuity “Tip” Tucci is only 11 ½, but she’s more practical and down to earth than your average grandma. She’s the one that takes care of her dreamy, impulsive mom. When her mom develops a strange mole, starts dreaming out loud in two languages, and is eventually abducted by an invading alien race (the Boov), Tip finds herself all alone and faced with a directive to report to Florida, where the “noble savages of Earth” have been allotted land. On her way down to Florida, she meets a lone Boov who calls himself J.Lo. After he soups up her old car “slushious” they reluctantly team up.

Okay, so I am not very familiar with what “the kids” are into these days (my two girls are barely out of the toddler years) but I was surprised by the sophistication of the humor in this book. Sure, there were also boob, fart, and poop jokes (which I may or may not have laughed at hysterically and repeatedly), but I found myself wondering if kids would even get 50% of the humor. He essentially uses the Boov as a not-so-flattering mirror of the human race, with hilarious results. One of my favorite quotes is Gratuity’s realization that the Boov “weren't anything special. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.” In many ways, the Boov end up proving themselves more humane and benevolent than humans. So, I’m not sure if kids will get what he’s saying here (Guess what? Human history ain’t pretty folks.). But I really hope that they do.

I think that this is a perfect book for parents and kids to read together – there’s much to enjoy on both sides. I absolutely loved Tip and J.Lo by the end of this book. I loved Tip’s frank and practical assessment of everything around her. Nothing magnifies the idiocy of adults like seeing it through the eyes of an eleven year old girl. I loved J.Lo’s sweetness and courage. Also, I think that my standard response to any question of “Why? Why would people do that?” will now be, “Because they are Poomps!”

I have to mention something here about the narrator of this audiobook, Bahni Turpin. Wow! Nothing could have made up for me not being able to see the illustrations except Bahni Turpin’s genius with voices. I enjoyed every minute; she truly captured J.Lo’s crazy squeaky voice and Gratuity’s dry sarcasm.
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Jun 18, 2017 Lata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: x2017-read, kids-and-ya, scifi-fantasy

4.5-5 stars. This book was such a hoot! (No, I didn't see the movie.) I've been meaning to read this book for ages, and when I stumbled across the audiobook narrated by Bahni Turpin (I'm a big fan of her work), well, it was a no-brainer.
Bahni Turpin does a wonderful job voicing Gratuity "Tip" Tucci, really giving me a great sense of the character's humour, determination, integrity and love. As far as J.Lo was concerned, once I got over my initial surprise over his odd sentence construction and ...more

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Aug 02, 2008 Paul rated it it was amazing

Pretty much my favorite children's book of the past few years, and one of my favorite books overall. It has such a sense of gamboling fun, even with the aliens are busy herding up humanity and shunting them off to states that they themselves don't particularly like.

J-Lo, the alien character is charming, and I wish he could be my own friend. Rex put a lot of emotion into that lovable squat fireplug, and my only "J-Lo" related dismay is that while readers of this book might know that J-Lo named h ...more

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Jan 02, 2019 Debbie Zapata rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019sundaze

On one of my twice yearly bus trips to visit Mom I saw parts of a movie called Home. Parts because I tend to sleep most of the time on the bus and could not get myself awake enough to watch the whole thing. But I did see it on cable once I got back down to the casa. I learned then that the movie was inspired by this book (and its sequel, which I am reading now) so I made a note and ordered them both but never took them back to Mexico with me. The idea of me moving back to Arizona to be with Mom ...more

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Jul 01, 2019 Connor rated it really liked it

Shelves: middle-grade

I really enjoyed this novel. Tip's story was a blast to follow, and I really enjoyed her and J.Lo's friendship throughout it. I thought it was so fun to see how different people would react to a hostile alien invasion and Tip's reactions to them. The ending actually made me laugh, but I won't spoil it. If you like plucky characters, I think you'd like Gratuity "Tip" Tucci

I listened to this on audio, and honestly, Bahni Turpin is becoming one of my favorite narrators. She made the experience that ...more

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Jul 19, 2011 Terence rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: My nieces

Recommended to Terence by: Ceridwen's GR review

Shelves: for-the-younger-generation, sf-fantasy

The critics have spoken:

"This is the bestest book in the whole widest world!!!" - Felix, The Other New York Review of Books

"Two thumbs up! Way up or this one!" - Roger Fleabert & Gene Whiskel, At the Libraries

I leave it to the reader of this review to go and find out why the cat world raves about this book, and I'll leave it to Steve's and Ceridwen's reviews to clinch the intention to read this funny, touching and intelligent book.

For my part, I'm going to send this off to my nieces ASAP as soon ...more

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Jan 04, 2008 babyhippoface rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kids-fiction, young-adult, fantasy

"The Boov jumped off his antler spool and went back inside the MoPo...."

I think I'm going to memorize this line. And next time someone asks me a question I don't want to answer, I'm gonna hit 'em with the Boov.

Smekday is funny, silly, and entertaining. Gratuity/Tip is a terrific heroine, spunky and anxious and bold. But my favorite character was J.Lo. Who knew Boov could be so big-hearted? (Plus, who knew urinal cakes were apparently so delicious?)

Although it's a bit long for a read-aloud, I ca ...more

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Jul 13, 2007 Brandy rated it liked it

Shelves: 2007reads, childrens, friendship, adventure, middle-grade

If I had to describe this book in a word, I'd call it a romp. It's fun, it's funny, it's a fast-paced adventure. And it's very clever. Too clever, in fact; one gets the impression that the author is very impressed with himself, and cracks himself up with how witty and clever he can be.

Somewhere on GoodReads, I saw a description of a book (don't recall which one) as "it's like a friend's little brother--he's really funny and entertaining for a little while, and then you want him to go away." Tha ...more

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Oct 22, 2009 Trin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi, american-lit, ya

As a reader, there's a certain type of book I dream about: one that somehow manages to be smart and funny and meaningful. Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday is—wonder of wonders!—just such a book. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it, however, because it also happens to be a kids' book. But it's one that can be appreciated just as easily by adults, who are just as likely to enjoy the novel's fantastic narrative voice and sharp sense of humor, and may get even more out of Smekday's cent ...more

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Jan 14, 2014 Lightreads rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, young-adult

In the wreckage of America post alien invasion, an eleven-year-old girl sets off on an epic road trip with one of the invaders and a cat.

OMG. OMG OMG my feels, I can't. This is hilarious and sad and wonderful and quirky. I giggled, I sniffled, I gasped. I got my feels everywhere, which doesn't happen for just any old book.

Basically, if you are a sucker for very brave, very angry little girls; if two people tentatively reaching out from opposite sides of a war and a language barrier and a lot of ...more

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Oct 19, 2010 Shep rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I got this book at one of my favorite bookstores of all time: A small, charming little shop in Redlands, CA called The Frugal Frigate. I don't live there anymore, but back in 2008 my mom and I were in town and I stopped by the store for old time's sake.

The store had since been bought out by an older couple, but they had maintained its comfortable, cozy charm. Nothing had changed since I'd last visited, and that meant more to me than anything in the world. I'd be heartbroken if anything was diffe ...more

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Nov 14, 2007 C. rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kids-books-for-adults, ya, read-aloud-to-mulzer

This is one of the funniest, constantly entertaining books I've read in a long time, kids book or otherwise. The narrator is a brilliantly sarcastic young girl, the alien J-Lo is a riot, and the premise never gets tired. I kept waiting for some sappy "kids book" ending to mar the climax, but it never got bad. I'm going to buy a copy to own, just so I can re-read it to Mulzer again. ...more

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Apr 04, 2015 Jasmine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, find-a-way-to-buy-this, disney-hyperion

Oh my word. I need to have children so I can read this to them. Who wants to make some reading-ready children with me? Stephanie? Stephanie?

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Jul 27, 2020 Carrie (brightbeautifulthings) rated it liked it

Shelves: middle-grade, science-fiction-double-feature, summer-bingo-challenge-2020

Gratuity “Tip” Tucci has been assigned a five-page essay on what Smekday–the day that the alien race called the Boov that conquered Earth suddenly left–means to her. But Tip’s story far exceeds the assignment, and before long, she finds herself chronicling her journey from start to finish. Her mother was abducted the day the Boov arrived, and Tip goes on a journey to find her, first in Florida where the Boov relocated all the humans, and then to Arizona (when they decided they wanted Florida for Gratuity “Tip” Tucci has been assigned a five-page essay on what Smekday–the day that the alien race called the Boov that conquered Earth suddenly left–means to her. But Tip’s story far exceeds the assignment, and before long, she finds herself chronicling her journey from start to finish. Her mother was abducted the day the Boov arrived, and Tip goes on a journey to find her, first in Florida where the Boov relocated all the humans, and then to Arizona (when they decided they wanted Florida for themselves). Along the way, she becomes unlikely allies with a fugitive Boov who calls himself J.Lo and learns of a threat even greater than the Boov: an alien race called the Gorg who conquer every world for its resources. Trigger warnings: death, explosions, violence, severe injury, car accidents, racism (some countered).

I have a tendency to imprint on the first media I come into contact with, so I ended up liking Home (2015) more than its source material, but it’s almost not even a fair comparison. It’s one of those cases of taking the same premise to tell two totally different stories, and Home is definitely geared and sanitized for a younger audience than The True Meaning of Smekday. The film misses a lot of the larger, messier themes like colonialism and racism and trades them for themes of belonging and perspective (but I love the adorable movie ending). I enjoyed the deeper themes of the novel and feel like its slightly older audience would be ready for them. There’s a strong parallel between the Boov “discovering” Earth and relocating its population to British-American treatment of Native Americans, and it includes a Native American side character later in the story.

Character-wise, I didn’t always find Tip to be quite that believable. She often comes off more as a cynical old man than a twelve-year-old girl, which I think is partly her complicated relationship with her mother (with Tip sometimes having to play the mother role herself) and partly the author creeping into the character. J.Lo is about as silly as an alien character who names himself J.Lo would be, but I enjoyed the way his and Tip’s friendship develops over the course of the novel from grudging allies to almost family. The Boov and Gorg cultures are also well-developed, and it’s surprisingly science fiction heavy for a middle grade book. (A little too sci-fi for me, truth be told, but I like the idea of a female lead in a genre that’s often male-centric.)

I don’t like the essay structure of the book, and I don’t feel like it best serves the story that’s being told. Tip’s first essay is barely an introduction on the topic, and she ends up writing the rest of it to be read only after she’s old and dead. Again, this comes off extremely cynical for a kid, and I think the action of the story would have been better from a first or third person narrator instead of in Tip’s “words.” The other genres included are a fun diversion though, from photographs (illustrations) of some of the characters to J.Lo’s comics about Boov life. The ending veers into the ridiculous, at least from an adult perspective, but I can see it working well for a middle grade sense of humor. I’m not quite the right audience for it, but I wouldn’t discourage anyone from picking it up.

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Mar 03, 2017 Abigail rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, favorites, sci-fi-dystopian, friendship-is-the-best-ship, heart-happy-books, adapted, 2019-march-reading, the-re-read-jar

"Pass to me the flocked bootpunch."
"Can you describe it?"
"Pink. Fur. Twisty parts."
"That's like, three things in here."
"It will be quivering a little."
"Aha. Here."
Two hours passed and I had to admit I wasn't good for anything except handing J.Lo tools that had been described really well beforehand.

This is one of my heart-happy books. It just brings me joy. There's no other way to describe it. Tip and J.Lo's friendship owns my entire heart, I just love the way they go from not really cari ...more

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Sep 10, 2009 Siria rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 21st-century, american-fiction, fantasy, young-adult

This is a delightful book—one that manages to not only be engaging and funny, but also smart! How many young adult books are there that are really biting, clever satires on the colonisation of foreign cultures, race and ethnicity which aren't Books With a Moral? (Same goes for adult books, I suppose.) Set in 2013, it follows eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci, her cat Pig and a renegade alien called J.Lo who set off across America in an attempt to save the world from the alien Boov, and from another ...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Kathleen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, childrens, read-in-2012

"Most everyone thinks of Smekday as the day the Boov arrived, and as the day they left, one year later. But the longer they've been gone, the less I care about that. The Boov weren't anything special. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else."

This is the best, funniest allegory for Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and privilege that you will ever, ever read. Yes, there are cartoons. Yes, there is an entire page that is only the word "meow" repeated. Yes, the a ...more

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Sep 20, 2017 Becky rated it it was amazing

So get this:
This is a book about colonization and cultural appropriation that predominantly features People of Colour as the main characters.

IKR! Wuuuuuuuut.
Rex is a genius. He’s pulled from historical (and current day) examples of colonialism and violent takeovers and just imported them into an alien invasion. You’re reading along thinking “WTF, they can’t ‘give us’ Florida and pretend it’s a huge gift, it was ours to begin with and we won’t all…”

There are a couple of things that happened in th So get this:
This is a book about colonization and cultural appropriation that predominantly features People of Colour as the main characters.

There are a couple of things that happened in the book that smack of real events that I can’t place. Like pulling out random citizens who have no cultural or political authority (and possibly no education) and making them sign treaties with you that you can wave around and insist you have the right to do anything. When did that happen IRL? Because I’m absolutely sure Rex pulled that from real life. Another example is when people would leave their houses (maybe they were evacuated or maybe they only to went for groceries or something) and they’d come back and the Boove would have just moved in and the person would now be homeless, that kind of thing happened all the time early on in the Israel/Palestine conflict at least, probably elsewhere too at different times.
The whole thing SEEMS ridiculous when framed as this over-the-top, hilarious alien invasion by a people who can’t even decipher pig Latin, and that’s kind of the brilliance of it. It’s not at all subtle about anything and there’s no room for misunderstanding, and yet it is so fun. It’s a freaking work of art, is what it is.
Gratuity is an incredible character who is navigating not only alien invasions, but racism and sexism too. More than once she’s accused of being bossy (once by a pair of the most obnoxious boys we’ve all met), and people’s racial assumptions almost cost her the search for her mother. She also makes friends with Chief Shouting Bear (aka Frank) who has no shortage of racism to deal with himself.

All the while she’s driving her hovering car Slushes across the country, keeping her cat Pig and her best friend JLo out of trouble (or at least keeping them all together as they get IN to trouble), and figuring out how to save the world.

Basically:

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Jun 13, 2016 R.J. rated it really liked it

[Review originally posted on LiveJournal, 2007/08/09]

I loved this book SO MUCH I can hardly find words to tell you.

An 11-year-old girl named Gratuity, her cat Pig, and an utterly adorable alien who answers to "J.Lo" end up taking a road trip across the southern USA in a souped-up hovercar to find Gratuity's missing mother and incidentally maybe save the world -- this is a book full of quirky delights and unexpected depths, not to mention some pretty incisive social commentary (albeit deftly han ...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Rachel Brown rated it it was amazing

Shelves: children-s, science-fiction

A marvelous and very funny science fiction comedy in which eleven-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci tells the story of how Earth was colonized by aliens, and she ended up traveling cross-country in search of her mother in a flying car called Slushious, in the company of a conflicted alien named J. Lo.

This book has all sorts of elements which I normally hate, from cutesy pop culture references to heavy-handed messages ("colonialism is bad") to mocking Disneyland (easy target). Amazingly, I loved it a ...more

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Mar 05, 2008 Colleen Venable rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-that-made-me-cry, mid-grade-fiction

It took me a bit to get into this one, but perhaps that was because I picked it up 100% convinced it was going to be my new favorite book in the world before I read a single character. As soon as J.Lo appeared I was HOOKED. His Balki-an charm, urinal cake eating habits, and hysterical integrated "The History of the Boov" mini-comics won me over in no time. I've been a fan of Rex's picture books for years with a lovely collection of signed books on my shelf, each one received while I was red-face ...more

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Nov 13, 2016 Tom Quinn rated it liked it

If you only read one alien-invasion-slash-road-trip-slash-buddy-comedy-based-piece-of-YA-lit-that-crosses-several-boundaries-into-the-realm-of-best-work-of-fiction-for-a-specific-age-group this year, then make it this one. Please.

Big points for originality of premise, but "The True Meaning of Smekday" still falls into some of the common routines of contemporary young adult lit. It's a hodge-podge of weird and zany components that don't stick together well, which evidently must be tremendously ap ...more

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Sep 09, 2011 Kezermezer rated it liked it

Shelves: read-with-the-boy

It's been a year since the aliens left, and the National Time Capsule committee is collecting essays on The True Meaning of Smekday, one of which will be chosen to go into the capsule and unearthed in one year.

What aliens? What is Smekday? We're about to find out, through the essay of (then) 11-year-old Gratuity Tucci, who lived through the invasion.

The True Meaning of Smekday has been described as "truly wonderful" and "snappy". I was really hoping for a story like that, but I try to keep my It's been a year since the aliens left, and the National Time Capsule committee is collecting essays on The True Meaning of Smekday, one of which will be chosen to go into the capsule and unearthed in one year.

What aliens? What is Smekday? We're about to find out, through the essay of (then) 11-year-old Gratuity Tucci, who lived through the invasion.

The True Meaning of Smekday has been described as "truly wonderful" and "snappy". I was really hoping for a story like that, but I try to keep my expectations neutral as reviews are just personal opinions, after all.

In my experience, this book was only occasionally wonderful and infrequently snappy. It started out promisingly but never really delivered. My ten-year-old son and I laughed out loud a few times (mostly in the very first section), and I was sometimes struck by a well-written and vivid scene or sentence (eg "So we watched the storm, watched the wind push the rain around in billowing sheets like the ghosts of old oceans.") but I wanted the whole book to be like that. It was a shame and a frustration to catch these glimpses of laugh-out-loud humor and lovely prose but to most of the time be stuck in average writing and meandering plot work.

This is not to say it was all bad, just that it could and should have been so much better. There was a thread of fun running throughout, most especially because of Gratuity's partner in crime, a Boov named J.Lo who is very fun to read aloud if you're one of those parents who does the voices. It's also peppered with well-done illustrations, including some cartoon-strip-esque narratives in which J.Lo explains things about Boovish culture and history.

A note about the cussing - there is cussing, and it's not (just) 'turd' or 'oh my God'. It's 'ass' and 'hell' and the like. Appropriate words for an 8 year old? That's up to the parents of course, but for that reason and because it was sometimes intensely wrenching (I'm thinking particularly of the scene where Tip's mom gets abducted [the second time]) I felt like it was only borderline appropriate for my ten year old and better suited for 11 or 12 and up. ...more

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Feb 01, 2008 Eva Mitnick rated it it was amazing

Shelves: children, science-fiction

This book is actually a very very long essay written by Middle School student Gratuity Tucci for a contest, the winning essay of which will be placed in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years - in 2113. In it, Gratuity (Tip to her friends) describes the invasion of the Boov and the subsequent relocation of all humans to Florida (and then to Arizona, as the Boov decide they want Florida for themselves). Tip's mother was taken by the aliens early on, and so 12-year-old Tip takes her cat and driv ...more

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Jan 07, 2015 thefourthvine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya, sff, favorites

Oh, Smekday, my forever girl. I love this book. I adore it. I'm always an obnoxious book proselytizer (mention a book and watch me rec! forever!), but this book cranked me up to 11. I forced people to read it. I bought a copy for a bed-bound friend. I read this out loud to my Best Beloved. I LOVE THIS BOOK.

I love Tip, I love the alien races, I love the humor, I love the edges hidden inside the humor. I love all the characters, particularly J.Lo, hapless alien repairperson and brave friend to Ti ...more

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Jan 18, 2008 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, middle-grade

This is a hilarious "essay" by Gratuity Tucci on what "Smekday" means to her since the alien Boov took over the world. Rex is also an illustrator, and there are lots of fun pictures and comics to tell parts of the story. I did think that it needed to be divided up into more parts. The first hundred pages is one segment, and the last three hundred are another, with no chapter breaks at all. I could have used a couple of breaks. But it was very, very fun, and I absolutely loved J.Lo the Boov. ...more

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Mar 31, 2012 April rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi, highly-recommended, audio, middle-grade, own

I am for reals on an audiobook roll. The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex narrated by Bahni Turpin is one of the most hilarious, heartfelt, and engaging audiobooks that I’ve had the pleasure to listen to. Seriously, if you aren’t sure about audiobooks, introduce your ears to The True Meaning Of Smekday.

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Aug 25, 2012 Sean Williams rated it it was amazing

Brilliantly hilarious, moving, clever, exciting, witty, surprising . . . I've run out of adjectives! A superb book. Read it immediately, if you haven't already.

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May 24, 2017 F.C. Yee rated it it was amazing

The amount I loved this book really snuck up on me as I read it. At no point did it ever stop being hilarious and heartwarming.

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“Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.'
Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even wrong.
You...are a boy, aren't you?' I asked. 'I mean, don't take that the wrong way or anything -'
J.Lo is a boy, yes.' I let that go.
So...you Boov have boys and girls...just like us?'
Of course,' said J.Lo. 'Do not be ridicumlous.'
I smiled a wan little smile. 'Sorry.'
The Boov have seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, girlboy, boygirl, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy.'
I had absolutely no response to this.” — 36 likes

“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?'
Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.'
We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.” — 29 likes

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