Nancy Garden’s, Annie
On My Mind, has given me mixed feelings so far. It’s been slower than the
others as far as getting into. I have especially noticed the style of writing
to be different than the other books we have read. Although, the more I read, I’m
slowly becoming more interested.
As others have also stated in posts, I definitely
am seeing a gender role confusion with Liza’s character. I read the description on the back
of the book before I began reading and knew beforehand they were both females,
but it was difficult to figure that out in the first two chapters. Liza
exhibits more male attributes than female. She mentioned that she wouldn’t want
to get her ears pierced and at the dinner table with her family and Annie, she
was talking about sports with her father while Annie was talking about music. She even brought over an African
violet for Annie (pg.83). Not saying that a female can’t do that for a friend,
but it’s just more usual that a male does this for a female in a relationship.
It’s been somewhat hard to get into, but I’m hoping things
will pick up as I go further in the book. It will be interesting to see how
Liza and Annie deal with these feelings they are developing for each other.
You note that the writing style is quite different, but you don't explain what you mean. How do you see the writing style as different? Why might it be different?
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