MY LIFE AS A GIRL

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Summary: My Life As A Girl
Review: During her last summer in Phoenix, Arizona, before going to an eastern college, eighteen year old Jaime works two waitress jobs and plans her escape from a life forever changed by her father's prison sentence and her sharp-edged romance with Buddy Cobalt.

In the story I enjoyed the whole love vibe they had going on but the author could've went about a few things in a different way. I feel as though the it could've ended a little better then it did . But if you like twisted love stories this is a book a for you , but as for me this wasn't my type of romance! But overall it was pretty good!!!!!

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Summary: There's something about that last summer...
Review: I can't tell you how much this book made me reflect on what my last summer before college was like. Before coming to Bryn Mawr College myself, the summer of 1997 (or any summer for that matter!) was my last chance to live as a girl. Dar Williams sings, "Get your shirt... No way. It's the last time I'm not breaking any law... I was a boy too..." Jamie feels that this is her last chance to react by impulse and not by thought. College is her chance to be mature and and avoid making stupid mistakes as her father did. But just for this summer, it's okay to be wild.

On a more personal note, the events that take place in Jaime's summer really remind me of my last summer before college. Like Jaime, I dated the biggest idiot, but I had fun. I got hurt, but because I was (and still am!) young, I can learn from my mistakes and get over it. How refreshing to have a book that clearly reflects a girl's life before she enters true womanhood. We're not all rich, blonde, and popular as "The Sweet Valley Twins" are, and Mosier finally writes from a true girl's perspective. There is a time for mistakes, but we must learn from them and not allow these mistakes to ruin our futures.

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Summary: "My Life As A Girl"
Review: I read Elizabeth Mosier's "My Life As A Girl" for my summer reading assignment. At first, I just grabbed it off the shelf because it was the first thing I saw. But, as I was reading the quotes on the back cover, it came to me that I might just have something in common with the main caracter. I decided to buy it. In the car on the way home, I began to read, and I must say that I could not put it down until I was done. This book kept me interested until the very end. I liked how Jaime had to work hard for her money and all of the problems that she had with her father, because my life is very similar to that. Jaime's father spent all of her money gambling. My father lost all of my family's money. She was trying to get rid of her first love and thought she was over him, when he showed up, same thing happened to me. One thing about this book confused me. I didn't like the fact that the author didn't say that Jaime was remembering things. I was reading and all of a sudden, she was back with Buddy. I don't understand that. Overall, though, i give this book 4 stars. It had a great plot, and i could relate very well to Jaime.

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Summary: The Change From Girl To Woman
Review: Jaime Cody is enjoying her new life at her all-girls college Bryn Mawr. She wanted a chance to start over and leave her past behind which includes her boyfriend Buddy Cobalt and his tendencies to remind her of her father. But Buddy isn't ready to give up on Jaime and one day he shows up at Bryn Mawr bringing with him all of Jaime's old feelings for him. His sudden reappearence trigers Jaime's memory of that past summer when she was struggling with two jobs. One at the All-American Diner with it's extremely short skirts and then at nights at the Phoenix, the fanciest restaurant/hotel in Arizona. But one day Jaime's car breaks down on the way to the Phoenix and who should show up but Buddy, the son of a co-worker. Soon Jaime is spending all her free time with Buddy and soon she is falling in love.

This story was a wonderful tale about a girl's transition into a women. I really enjoyed this book although I wish the ending were different. But either way it was good.

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Summary: Not just for young adults
Review: Jaime is a brilliant, original first person narrator and the writing is just magical. I thought this especially true in the opening chapters in which Jaime's past--the life as a girl that she left behind at the end of the summer--catches up with her when she least expects it, when a red Mustang pulls up and parks illegally on a campus road at Bryn Mawr College and a loose end named Buddy gets out.

Jaime wants to take control of her life, and she has. But sometimes she's taken by surprise--by life, or, astonishing to her, by her own feelings. She plans everything and watches everything, but sometimes she doesn't know what she's going to do until she watches herself do it. The writing is so good that the reader is there at each turn, gasping when she gasps, and laughing when she laughs. Jaime is not always likeable, but she is compellingly human.

My Life as a Girl is billed as a book for "young adults," and seems to be marketed toward teenage girls and young women. I didn't see this as a sub-genre novel of limited appeal, though it did get a bit didactic at the very end. I was amazed by Ms. Mosier's power to say so much about the way women relate to each other, in so few words. Guys, when you get to the part where Amanda says, "I thought he had a white car," think about it.

I would recommend this little book to anyone who likes great writing, often very funny, about what people are thinking and feeling. And, to any boy who has ever showed up unexpectedly at a Bryn Mawr dorm on a cold morning, perhaps pathetic, desperate, and undeserving, needing sleep, a change of clothes, a shower and a toothbrush, but hoping for . . . another chance.

I hope that Ms. Mosier will let Jaime tell us much more about Bryn Mawr and her life as a woman. Some of us need the insights.

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Summary: floaty summer book
Review: Mosier presents the story of a girl who is trying to escape her past by going to college but who realizes that that's what it's all about, your memeories

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Summary: My Life as a Girl
Review: The only that keeps me from giving this book the lowest rating is respect for the effort that goes into writing. Mosier's story is scattered and somewhat inconclusive and has an out of place, and weak ending! Borrow from a friend or rent it from the library!

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Summary: My Life As A Girl
Review: When I first went to the book store to find a summer reading book, I thought that reading all summer would bore me. But, as I looked from shelf to shelf, I found Elizabeth Mosiers, "My Life As A Girl." I read the quotes on the back of the book and I found that this might actually keep me involved. That day, I began to read the book. I couldn't stop. This book kept me very interested. I enjoyed how Jaime had difficulties that I once had. She had to deal with her father gambling her money away, I've had to deal with my father spending my money for bad reasons. I also found that she had to cope with her boyfriend. She and I had many things in common. That is a reason I liked this book. The one thing I did ot like about this story was how the plot differs. First, it is present day, then it is the past and soon we're talking about the future, that had confused me a bit. In conclusion, this book had a great overall story line, and I would give it 4 stars.