![]() I’m still trying to figure out how much of this book is fictional. The book’s written like a diary, with SAT words and example sentences, poems, and charts rating how annoying her parents are. It's like there should be some giant Mirror of Truth, and Alexandra should stand in front of it and it should say, "Cut it out. I hate that the most about people in high school, that they're all so unaware of how stupid they're being at any given moment. It's all very annoying and contrived and artificial. She's decided that she's a teenage witch, and that's all there is to say about that. ![]() I believe (unless I'm wrong, and that's unusual) that Wiccanism is a form of Paganism wherein one worships nature and ascribes to the belief that there are multiple deities, both male and female, and engages in rituals at certain times of the year. First of all, I don't think that's something that you can just decide overnight. *In this case, please substitute "hotties" for "sand toys."Īlexandra came in today and just announced that she had become a Wiccan. It's the same lesson we all learned in kindergarten - share, take turns, and don't hog the sand toys.* If you're one of those girls who tends to attract a lot of guys and have no intention of using all of them, then cut a few loose so the rest of us can have a go. Short, smart, obsessed with the opposite sex, and trying hard to find her place in the world, Anita’s escapades and the way she tells them (perfectly tempered with experience and hindsight) will have readers in her corner (and feeling her pain) from the get go.īeing witness to the inferiority of my fellow tenantsĪdvice from Anita Liberty: There are a limited number of decent guys in any given high school. Their first mistake is moving to an unrenovated Manhattan loft with practically no privacy, and forcing their teenage daughter to live on a platform (she refers to it as a STAGE for all of her teenage drama) in the center of it all. ![]() Anita also keeps running lists of “Parental Infractions” and “Parental Compensations” to score/grade her parents on their parenting skills. ![]() Detailing her thoughts, feelings, and experiences, it also provides advice, SAT words (used in a sentence for context!), and poetic interludes. Anita Liberty took her high school journals and put them to excellent use in producing this fictionalized account of her teenage years. ![]()
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