Steve Kluger
Hardcover | Pages: 403 pages Rating: 4.04 | 7472 Users | 1106 Reviews
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| Original Title: | My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park |
| ISBN: | 0803732279 (ISBN13: 9780803732278) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | T.C. Keller, Ale Perez, Andy Wexler, Augie Hwong |
| Literary Awards: | South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2011), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2010), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (2009), Peggy Miller Award (2009) |
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Dear Anthony: I appreciate your recent interest, but I'm not accepting applications at this time. Your letter will be kept in our files and someone will get back to you if there is an opening. Thank you for thinking of me. Respectfully, Alejandra Perez P.S. It's not Allie. It's Ale.Meet T.C., who is valiantly attempting to get Alejandra to fall in love with him; Alejandra, who is playing hard to get and is busy trying to sashay out from under the responsibilities of being a diplomat's daughter; and T.C.'s brother Augie, who is gay and in love and everyone knows it but him.
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| Title | : | My Most Excellent Year |
| Author | : | Steve Kluger |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 403 pages |
| Published | : | March 13th 2008 by Dial |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Romance. LGBT. Contemporary |
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3 1/2 starsI am just not cut out for this kind of book. I am that kid that, at age six, figured out that Santa does not exist and then pressured my mom into confessing all. No, I was not upset. I was triumphant. Its not that I dont have a heart or an imagination; its just that both of these things have always been firmly rooted in reality. If I were in Mary Poppins having a tea party, that table would be made of solid granite and would be heavily anchored to the ground. No amount of pun filled4 stars for being one of the most heartwarming books ever. My Most Excellent Year is a multi-medium contemporary about three kids; high school class clown T.C., theater kid Augie, and the absolutely badass Alejandra. This book succeeds mainly because of the main three characters' interesting personalities. Each one is unique and interestingAlejandra and T.C.'s romance is completely free of instalove. Their banter-filled relationship was so fun to read about. Kluger also does a great job with
I miss Boston. I miss walking through the Commons in the fall, drinking on roof decks in the summertime, riding the T and just getting off at random stops, shoveling my car out, pumpkin ale, my book club besties, Fenway franks, that feeling that a bar gets when a Dropkick Murphys song comes on, and perusing the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. Hell, I even miss the frakking BU students who ride the green line and the 57 TWO STOPS instead of just walking. This book almost made me
I give the rating of two stars in its truest sense of "it's okay." This was a difficult novel to rate. I thought the writing was really good, and it was funny. But the main characters were all so incredible. They were all wealthy (or at least not poor), they all were really smart/got good grades, they were all really talented in different ways, they were all very attractive, etc. And I guess it is quite possible that three people like them would all be friends, so I don't know why I'm
This is an absolutely ridiculous book and I smiled the entire time I was reading it.
I haven't quite officially finished this book but I can already see that it's going to be a happy ending. Nothing bad happens! It's that perfect department store window, mannequins placed just so. It's a half-hour sitcom with laugh track. It's those people down the street you kind of hate, the perfect family with the perfect lawn and the perfect future ahead of them (not the perfection that hides eeeevil secrets, I mean the annoyingly perfect).The book is a series of school essays (journal
My feelings are a bit mixed (yes, again!), as there were a lot of things I loved about this book: T.C.'s beautifully described memories of his mother, and the ways he dealt with them, and how he and Augie came to be 'brothers' were especially good - funny and very real. And of course the whole heart-string tugging storyline of Hucky tugged very effectively, even if it was easy to see how that one would end up from the beginning. I also liked the fact that everyone around Augie was so far beyond
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