The chapter revisions and phrases from the Romance guide were hysterical and filled in missing pieces. It is extremely well written and I found myself smiling or laughing during every single chapter. This book had the potential to be a five star.until the end. I also enjoyed how the book was constructed as an "unedited" work in progress, with Kate’s revision notes serving as supplemental information about her life and inner workings.
I think many young women who are off the beaten track of teenage expectations but still yearn (there's one of those romance novel words) for stories about connection will find a kindred spirit in Kate and comfort in her family and friends, especially Fleur. If only I had been able to see that my quirks and smarts were cause for confidence as clearly as my doppelganger does! I was completely charmed by this intelligent, witty, romantic anti-romance and wish I had discovered it in high school, as I share not only the narrator’s name but her geeky non-heroine qualities. She’s been in love with Richard, her former neighbor and brother’s best friend, since they were kids, and she describes their budding romance by poking fun at Harlequin novel conventions, which take the lovers into bliss, betrayal, and back again. Gawky Kate Bjorkman has a rapier wit, genius IQ, and coke-bottle glasses. She has also written nonfiction books specifically for the Mormon audience and is a popular LDS lecturer.
Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel.
The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.Īwards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Louise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University.
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