The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary

The four girls were definitely candid and there was a certain depth there that I didn't necessarily expect. I had no information about NYC schools, how they operated or the various programs each schools focused on. Evidently Stuy is an "ivy-league" primer, and because of that some entries were quite profound. Of course you still had the normal sex questions (should I do it or should I wait), but following that entry would be a discourse on religion (two girls were jewish and one was an atheist).

Overall, I would recommend this book. It's interesting because I can see why parents threw their hands up in the air and fought for this book to get on the banned book list. These kids did everything that a parent doesn't want their fourteen + show more year old to do. I read an article somewhere that the girls show that you can experiment and party while still making good grades. I think that's what scares parents the most. They don't want their kids to get that idea

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i thought i was going to like this book so much more. everyone has a story to tell, some more boring than others. this isnt talent, this is friends passing notes. all of my friends and i have passed notes. why didnt we get our published?

these girls seem like the people i hated in highschool. they were rude to eachother, and just all around not fun lol. i didnt even get this far but apparently it goes on to detail their smoking and drinking habits. thats fine. but i heard enough of those stories in homeroom.

next time i want to read a diary i'll re-read "Go Ask Alice"

This book was written by four high school girls and it was originally their private but shared journal. They really didn't know eachother all that well and they came to know eachother through this book that they passed around. They would each take turns writing in it, telling all their secrets and the most important recent events in their lives. Somehow, this notebook ended up getting published.
This book shows the true life of high school students and all the problems that come along with the territory. This book showed me how many different ways you can choose to live your life and it made me glad that I am on the path that I am on.
More than anything this book inspired me. Just the idea of having this shared notebook brought these four show more girls closer together, so my 3 best friends and I decided to start a notebook of our own. Even though we are not in a lot of the same classes together, we are able to keep in touch about everything that has happened through our notebook. It helps us share our feelings and memories with one another and has made us even closer. show less

I guess I must just be to old for this book. I thought the four girls were total brats. I couldn't relate to them picking on one another all the time. I didn't do drugs in high school so I couldn't relate to them hanging out and doing drugs. I found it rather boring. I guess I am old.

I wanted to like this book, but it was just too teenager (which is the point, but...)