The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
February 23, 2009
Ah, E Lockhart’s The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. What can I say? It’s excellent. Truly wonderful. It was Prinz honoured and won a Cybils.
I’m one of the last to read it so what do I have left to say? Not a lot. This is the kind of book had I read it as a teen would have made me long to go to boarding school. When I was a kid I thought boarding school was the coolest thing ever. (Ha! Dorm life cured me of that fast.) I loved Frankie. I don’t think I could have ever been the same criminal mastermind she was but I loved her and totally would have wanted to be her friend.
So rather than add anything that hasn’t been said already I just say awesome, awesome, awesome. Feminist. Wonderful. Patriarchy! Ha!
Posted by sassymonkey @ 10:05 am
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Didn’t you write about this already? Or did you just mention that you had bought it? I swear I remember you talking about this book before. And, hmm, now I have to look into it a little more because I thought it was about a boy and not dorm life and you know, boring stuff. ha!
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February 23rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Apparently I’m like the only person who didn’t LOVE this book. For me it was just…”meh”. It really didn’t stand out to me.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I put this on my library list when I was halfway through reading your review. Looks like it’s going to be another “My Most Excellent Year,” where I read about it on your blog, order it from the library, and love it! Can’t wait!
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February 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Kit-Cat – I’m not sure it’s a you book. Maybe…
Mollie – lol. I often don’t love books that it feels everyone else does.
Elizabeth – it’s a different kind of love from My Most Excellent Year but equally good.
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February 24th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I am one of the last to read it, too… I am waiting for it to come in for me at the library!
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March 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 am
I didn’t love this one. I posted about it too (though my book blog had a long dry spell of no posts). I appreciated the themes and I wanted to love it but I ended up just liking it.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Kailana – Don’t you hate it when you feel you are the last to read something? Of course every time I mention that someone always pops up to say that they haven’t read it yet.
Kat – I can see that. I think I just really liked Frankie. She amused me.
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March 5th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Just finished reading this… and it honestly didn’t grab me. I’m trying to think of other boarding school books, new and old-favorites, to browse, to see if I’m just not feeling the genre at the moment. Maybe it’s an autumnal, back-to-school mindset.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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