Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom

Violet is a very likable character. Call me a sucker but I love a book that takes place in Canada rather than the US. Overall this book was really cute. ( )

Great book for middle grades. Sweet and funny story. My students love it. ( )

Set in Vancouver, this was a highly enjoyable read about a teenage girl coping with the divorce of her parents. The protagonist is likeable, believable, and makes mistakes spectacular enough to leave the most jaded reader snickering. I found this book to be very "now" with a plethora of references to current pop culture. In 2012, this was a fun read but by 2017 it will be showing its age. ( )

Dear George Clooney is, overall, a sweet, funny story. Nielsen takes an okay plot and spices it up with some fantastic characters and writing. I loved Violet and her family, and Phoebe and her family were a hilarious bit on the side. Violet is a believable 12 year-old with believable feelings, and I think that's what makes this book good instead of okay. ( )

I had a lot of mixed feelings going into this book. When I first read its description, I was just kind of like "whatever", then when I saw the cover I was like, "well that's cute", and then when I started reading I was like "this is stupid."But gradually, I got more and more involved with the story and more and more interested in Violet, the main character. Finally, I had to admit that I was enjoying it.Violet truly is a great main character, mature for her age but still very much a twelve-year-old girl. She's funny and depressing and bitter and sometimes she goes too far, but she's always got a reason. By the end of the book, she'd gathered an awful lot of respect from me.This is the kind of book I don't often read because it's not always done well, but when it -is- done well, it's awesome. I start out sympathizing with the main character, always agreeing and always taking her side. But when things start to go out of control, I turn against the main character about the same time that the character herself realizes she's going too far. Character growth.

I would love to see this as a movie with George Clooney.

This strongly reminds me of younger version of Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway. ( )