Bank, Melissa. The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. New York: Penguin, 2000.
This is another book I picked up before the Book Lust Challenge. I think it’s from my sister, yet I found it in my mother’s collection at home. I loved Melissa Bank’s narrative in the beginning when the main character, Jane, is a child. She’s a little too smart for her age. Unfortunately, as Jane gets older, the voice/narrative loses some of it’s wit, sarcasm and charm. All in all what fascinated me was Bank’s ability to mature Jane through voice. The story about the neighbor was the only part that threw me because I took all the other stories to be about Jane, even the one about cancer. The neighbor story didn’t seem to fit with the sequence as well.
I find it interesting that it’s now being made into a movie (due to be released this year).
BookLust Twist: From Pearl’s Book Lust in the chapter “Chick Lit” (p. 53). How appropriate!
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