Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940207053 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Hilarious and touching memoir" according to Emily Anderberg. I loved this book so much. It is a memoir and at parts it is definitely a comedic memoir; I laughed out loud a lot, which is rare for me. But at other parts it is very intensely sad and emotional and sentimental, and I actually cried once or twice. The book is based around notes, letters, and journal entries from Pamela's teenage years. Most of them are about (or written to) boys she liked, and these parts were extremely . Dinakar Sarma said Poignant and funny. Pamela Ribon saves everything. She goes into fits of panic when watching that Hoarders show, and silently shouts "What if they had a plan for that thing!?" Along with her [every]thing[s] that she saved from childhood are stacks of letters that she wrote to boys. By hand. She'd write out one copy for her own archives, and one copy for the boy. This is when she's in high school, when the hormones are running wild all over t. "Dork-tastic" according to jensm. What I love about Pamela Ribon’s books is how they are simultaneously hysterical and heartbreaking. They’re like two, two, two books in one! Except they aren’t, because she manages to move between the two extremes—giving more time to the hilarious, thank goodness—in a way that feels completely normal.In “Notes to Boys,” Ribon adult-narrates her teen dorkiness. Her notes to boys ar
Miserably trapped in small town Texas with no invention of the internet in sight, Ribon spent countless hours of her high school years writing letters to her (often unrequited) crushes. The big question is: Why did she always keep a copy for herself? Wince along with Ribon as she tries to understand exactly how she ever thought she'd win a boy's heart by writing him a letter that began: "Share with me your soul," and ends with some remarkably awkward erotica. You'll come for the incredibly bad poetry, you'll stay for the incredibly bad poetry about racism."brain-breakingly funnyhugely relatable, very entertaining It's a collection of embarrassing stories and mortifying notes, yes, but it's also a pretty deeply felt memoir about her introduction to boys and sex and - perhaps most painfully - learning when not to tell people how you feel." -- Linda Holmes, NPR. Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public is a "mortifying memoir" from bestselling author and tv/film writer Pamela Ribon
On the Internet she's known as "Pamie," where she's been running her wildly successful website pamie for a very long time, long enough to have been nominated for a "Lifetime Achievement" Bloggie. Pamela Ribon is a best-selling author, TV writer, screenwriter, roller derby girl, and Wonder Killer. Her stage productions have become internation
Imaginative children of the 1980s and ’90s will likely see themselves in Ribon’s writing, as will like-minded teens today. In asides dropped in between the text of the notes, Ribon winces at the flowery prose she used to woo elusive teenage boys. Ribon was a lovelorn teen in the early 1990s, and she saved copies of the earnest notes she sent to the objects of her affection. From Booklist Television writer Ribon, also the author of several novels, including Why Girls Are Weird (2003), bares her teenage soul in this hilariously endearing memoir, which chronicles her youthful passions. She also shares mortifying memories, such as an uncomfortable sex talk with her father and a sexual encounter that goes awry thanks to the unfortunate presence of gum. Ribon also tried to start an underground paper only to have it hijacked by students with the means to produce it. --Kristine Huntley . Ribon’s passion wasn’t limited to boys: she ra