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Rating: Summary: How to Wreak Vengeance with a Bulldozer Review: Caroline B. Cooney's Tune in Anytime was an interesting look at two families. Primarily the story dealt with the unraveling of the ties that bind the dysfunctional Olivette family together. Edith, the mother, made "finding herself" a full time job. The oldest daughter, Marley, was self-centered and constantly ranting and raving. Daniel, the father, fell head-over-heels in lust with Marley's college roommate, Persia. The only person acting like a responsible adult was the youngest daughter, Sophie. Sophie felt like her life had turned into a soap opera. The author provided a solid and ordinary family to compare with the Olivettes. Ted and his family were very down-to-earth people. The parents acted like adults and they were caring and respectful of one another.
Tune in Anytime described some outlandish events. However, I felt like the characters and events could have been real. In my mind, I could imagine the evening news describing the final scene. I almost dropped the book because I was laughing so hard.
I would recommend Tune in Anytime to all young adults, but especially to anyone who is dealing with divorce. Children going through a divorce will be able to relate to Sophie's feeling that she was the only person in her family who was still a family. Everyone else was single. Karen Woodworth-Roman
Rating: Summary: ZLI says "Get it while you have the chance" Review: get your money out of your wallit fast because this books worth it. I have been reading books all of my life, and I havent ever read a book quite like this one. This is a book of sarrow, comady and romance will make you feel like you want to read this book forever. GET IT NOW !!!!!!!!!
Rating: Summary: OK Review: I hated this book. I usually love books and finish every one in less than 3 day but this book was just horrible. It took me over 2 months to read it. I kept hoping it would get better but it didnt. Nothing ever happens. In the whole book people have pointless conversations and thoughts. The ending was stupid... very horrible and not realistic at all. I wouldnt recommend this book to anyone. Save your money for something better.
Rating: Summary: Don't Change the Channel, you can Tune in Anytime!!!!!!!!! Review: Is your life like a soap opera? Is your life perfect? In this story you will meet 16 year old Sophie Olivette. Sophie thinks her life is perfect. She lives with her parents in a huge home. Her sister, Marley goes to college in a nearby town. Marley's college roomate's name is Persia. When Sophie arrives home from school one day her dad tells her that he and Persia are getting married. Sophie is shocked and soon relizes that this means dad is divorcing her mother. Sophie is left with a feeling of wanting to change the channel on the TV or push mute.Mrs. Olivette is very interested in many hobbies. In the middle of all the tension of the famly relationship ,she discovers rocks. Rocks are her comfort. Sophie with no one to turn to is left with no couch to sit on . She calls Marley after the news of the marriage is told . Marley is just as upset as Sophie and is of no help to make Sophie feel better. Sophie's crush Ted starts talking to her more at school. They become very close like two couch potatoes. After just getting comfortable with the news of the horrible divorce Mr.Olivette tells Sophie that her and moter will have to move an apartment. Sophie knew the divorce would mean change,but definatly not moving out.Dad announces that he a Persia will sell the house and travel abroad for a year and then settle back into the states.Now that Sophie relizes her house is going to be sold for a tremendous amonut of money she begins to wonder. She wonders whether or not Persia is after her father's money or not. She is left feeling in the dumps. But then Ted,her big pillow comes along and she is comforted. Ted's family owns a bulldozer/construction business and Sophie gets the idea to bulldoze her house down. Ted's father talks her out of this plan. Then a new epsiode premeires, the announcement of Persia and Mr.Olivette's eloping. Read on to see the last episode!!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Another Interesting Problem Review: Not Cooney at her best but it was a fast and fairly entertaining read. Sophie's family has disintegrated around her. Her self-centered sister is at college and her father is divorcing his family to marry her roommate. Sophie's mother, Edith, is too busy being "one with nature and the cosmos" to defend her rights (or those of her daughters) in the divorce proceedings. As her world falls apart, Sophie has to find her own center and hold on for dear life. She has to become a family of one.
Her goofy mother, selfish father and self absorbed sister made me wonder if Sophie was adopted. Cooney has written a book that does mirror the confusion and pain that kids feel when parents separate. Even though Sophie and her sister are young adults, they still need their parents. I just wish Cooney had let the bulldozer finish the job.
Rating: Summary: Waited & waited for the payoff...which never came! Review: This book is a REAL disappointment, especially since it was written by Cooney who's usually so great at spinning out quirky, memorable, compelling characters & situations. This book - even with its framework of "real-life soap opera" & presence of teen angst, sibling rivalry & mental illness, stayed one-dimensional for me. I kept waiting for the characters to be fleshed out...they stayed static. The romance between Sophie & Ted never came alive; the mom's craziness was used, almost cruelly, as a point of humor. Some of the writing is light & funny & I hung in there till the end, but this book will fall off the radar screen of my memory quite soon. Her other books have stayed with me.
Rating: Summary: ZLI says "Get it while you have the chance" Review: Tune In Anytime was about a 16 year old girl, Sophie who is going through a really hard time in her life. Her dad is getting remarried to her sisters college roommate, Persia. Sophie's mother could care less about the situation. But Sophie and her sister conpletely agrees with her but the two have different thoughts of how to deal with the situation. Basically Tune in anytime is about a family who is seperating, and about the girl who just wants to fix it all her way.
Rating: Summary: What The...?? Review: Was I unwell when I read it or was CBC unwell when she wrote it??That's the question..Normally a great writer,Caroline Cooney has written a strange book.All characters and their speech seemed to make no sense,were unnatural.The characters, they would come out with odd comments that sounded,as I said,unnatural and very odd.It was a very strange,weird book and I almost felt like yelling What A Stupid Book and throwing it across the room.Very peculiar it was. The story is of a teen girl whose family is in chaos,and she feels like she is in a soap opera.It seemed awful-ly written.
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