After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Lest this review sound like a negative one, though, the book is fun and feels like a real diary from a teenager around the beginning of the millennium.Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). Lily gives as good as she gets, though it’s a wonder these two are friends. I can’t say I love the way Mia seems to treat her best friend, considering that she almost never shares any big news with Lily, leaving her to find out some other way. Things move quickly, the writing is easy to read (or in my case, listen to), and Anne Hathaway does a great job with the narration (I mean, she basically is Mia anyway).
I think what keeps all of this from making the story annoying is the writing style. It did get a little much when she made such a huge deal out a really low temperature when she got sick, and I couldn’t tell if she was exaggerating or if she/the author really thinks that a 100-degree temperature is really a big deal. I mean, I get that she has a lot going on, but it seems like every diary entry starts with her exclaiming about how something terrible has happened.
Will it all be too much to handle?īoy, Mia sure does like to complain. Then her mother drops a bombshell on her, and Mia begins receiving letters from a secret admirer. But as the crown princess of a small European country, she has to deal with primetime interviews and princess lessons instead.
Mia Thermopolis really just wants to be a normal NYC high school student.
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