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How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl #1)

Caitlin Moran

ebook | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 29013 Users | 3237 Reviews

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Title	:	How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl #1)
Author	:	Caitlin Moran
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 23rd 2014 by Harper
Categories	:	Fiction. Feminism. Young Adult. Contemporary. Humor

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A hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.

What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself.

It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes—but without the dying young bit.

By sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.

But what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?

Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.

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Original Title:	How to Build a Girl
Edition Language:	English
Series:	How to Build a Girl #1
Literary Awards:	Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2015), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year (2014)

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I enjoyed this more than I expected to, and to be honest, it was a welcome surprise. Caitlin Morgan has succeeded in writing a hilarious, but emotionally charged book about an adolescent girl, and in some ways, I felt I could relate to this girl.I thought it was refreshing to read about a girl that struggled, went through various hardships, and then finally, after a lot of pain, she made it on her own. I think the rawness and honesty made this book so much better than your average coming of age

3.5 stars! All About A Girl by Caitlin Moran came as a really nice surprise. Im usually not at all into the genre of humorous coming of age stories and after reading the blurb I wasnt sure if I might like this story or not. Considering the fact that I was at a flea market and that the book was really cheap, I decided to give it a try. And Im happy that I did, I really enjoyed this one. Growing up in an area of social housing in Wolverhampton, Johanna Morrigans is an unsecure and awkward teen

3.5 stars.I debated whether to give this 3 or 3.5 stars, and finally settled on 3.5 stars because it did make me chuckle throughout. Caitlin Moran has a very specific style of humour which is all her - I think I'd recognise her writing a mile off, even if I hadn't been explicitly told it was her work.The story follows Johanna Morrigan, who at the start of the story is 14 and desperate to shed her old skin and 'build a new girl' - Dolly Wilde. She sets out to become a music journalist, in order

I stumbled across this book while trolling my library sites for audio books. It looked good so I put my name down on the request list, I figured it had to be good with 4 people ahead of me.As the book opened I had my doubts, I'm not a prude by any means, but this teen talking about masturbating in bed while her 6 year old brother was asleep next to her made me do a double take and look at my ipod. My mouth fell open as she talked about how her brother would want her to do this because it would

I like to imagine, sometimes, that Caitlin Moran is my friend. We have such fun together in my head! You would love hanging with us. Shopping for orthopaedic boots, listening to shoegaze, and cackling like fishwives. We share stories about our fat, unpopular, wannabe-indie childhoods. We have loads to talk about. I love to hear her anecdotes! My friend Caitlin is proper funny. We talk a lot--Caitlin is a talker--and after a while I start to notice that I'm hearing a lot of her anecdotes more

Second reading: December 15 to 16, 2016This was the (viewer-selected!) December book for the Banging Book Club. I read this over two years ago (God, where does the time go?) but decided to re-read it. I do not regret this decision. Its even better than I remember.Im actually pretty happy with my review below, and it is long, so I wont add much. But as much as this book is about sex (hence its pick for the club), it is also about growing up, about being poor, about being a woman, about finding

Aaaa! It's been over a week since I finished this one, and I'm still wavering - three or four stars?On the one hand, Caitlin Moran is kind of my sister from another mister. How can I even consider giving her anything less than four stars? Well, it's just that this book is pretty much a young adult, fictionalized version of How to Be a Woman. Here we have 14-year-old Johanna Morrigan, growing up with many siblings in a cramped household in a working class neighborhood; a girl who dreams big, gets