Sunday, September 8, 2013

32 Candles

32 Candles32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this in one day - one sitting. Grant it - it was Saturday football. So the house is still and the boys are preoccupied, but it was absolutely delicious. Really funny, quirky, and romantic. I didn't always agree with Davie, but I found myself voting for her the whole time.

View all my reviews Book Description Release date: June 22, 2010 32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn’t stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that will change her life—Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life doesn’t imitate art. Tormented endlessly in school with the nickname "Monkey Night," and hopelessly in unrequited love with a handsome football player, James Farrell, Davie finds that it is bittersweet to dream of Molly Ringwald endings. When a cruel school prank goes too far, Davie leaves the life she knows and reinvents herself in the glittery world of Hollywood—as a beautiful and successful lounge singer in a swanky nightclub.

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