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"Looking
for Alibrandi"
The book "Looking for Alibrandi" written by Melina Marchetta was first
published in 1992.
Praise for "Looking for Alibrandi" :-
'a novel to rejoice in, a story from the heart' - Australian Booseller
and Publisher.
'a sensational debut' - Herald-Sun.
'so fresh and strong it bounces off the page' - Andrea Stretton, The
Bookshow, SBS.
'An extraordinarily intelligent and passionate novel, written with
remarkable self-assurance' - Helen Elliott.
'I love this book for its passion, its commitment to life, its bubbling
ideas and its warmth and vivacity.' - Moira Robinson.
As an avid reader, I'm going to enjoy, and have enjoyed, a lot of books.
I mostly read fantasy, but every now and then I'll throw in a couple of
ordinary fictions that I'm not quite sure to classify into a specific genre.
I tend to stick to a few authors (at the moment? Terry Brooks, Isobelle
Carmody, Traci Harding), but if I get recommended a book by another author
I haven't heard of, or haven't read any of their works yet, I'll be a bit
hesitant but I'll almost always read it and probably be hooked.
When I began seeing trailers on TV advertising "Looking for Alibrandi",
I didn't really know what to expect about the movie. The trailer didn't
really show much about the indepth parts of the movie, but from what I
had seen it seemed like a typical teenager movie I would enjoy. I organized
to see it with my cousin (who doubles as one of my best friends ;P), and
then a friend of mine on the Internet said she had seen it twice and greatly
enjoyed it. She told me not to forget my tissues. So I saw the movie, cried
my eyes out in the sad parts, and then afterwards couldn't shut up about
how good it was.
Then my cousin got the book and lent it to me after she finished reading
it. I read it in just under twenty-four hours (that almost beats my record
of how long it has taken me to read a book. The winner as yet? "Star Wars,
Episode One: The Phantom Menace"). And I cried my eyes out again. So in
this case, a friend didn't recommend the book, but a movie did!
I can't get over this book. I can't get over the movie. I can't get
over how cute the guys in the movie are!! I find it extremely easy to empathise
with the characters - I can do that a lot, but this book was definitely
high up on the list.
The novel follows Josephine Alibrandi, a seventeen-year-old girl who
is in her final year of school and finding it hard to deal with many problems!
With an Italian and Australian background, she isn't accepted into either
society and is trying desperately to fit in somewhere. As if that
isn't enough to drag you down to the bottom of the food-chain in a private,
all girls school where the rich snobs pick on you daily, she then has to
deal with having her father around for the first time in her life, falling
in love and uncovering her family's secret background...
Some of the best bits from the book, in
my opinion...
