This is my final blog for 'Go Ask Alice'. I finished right before I started writing this. I liked the book a lot, but there were some things that annoyed me in general, starting from the way she talked to some of the stupid decisions she made, but I easily looked past those.
The ending of the book was... not as good as I expected, but it was pretty predictable. The end of the book was basically her reaching the end of that diary, but the true ending was in the epilogue. The epilogue didn't quite give the right answers, or provide enough information about the character, though I understand she's kept anonymous, I would've liked to get some more information on the events that took place after the end of the book.
Overall, the book was good, and I really liked it. The whole book ran in a pattern, she was a 'straight' kid, then a druggie, then straight and was accidentally drugged, then she was straight again. It all took place over two years, and that's a lot to happen to one girl in that time. When it first started it was about a month from her 15th birthday, and ended a few days after her 17th.
In the last entry I wrote about this book, I said that at some points I doubted the authenticity of the diary itself, so I searched the internet some, and found that there were many people claiming that the person who 'wrote' the book (not the original owner of the diary) used some entries from a former patients diary, but added some of her own entries in with it. Like the me, other people noticed that the language used seemed a little odd for someone in their teen to use. Still, if you haven't read the book already, I highly recommend it.
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Several years ago, when I was doing drama, we did GAA as a one-act. It was powerful for me and the students! Have you heard the song by White Rabbit? I think that the title of the book came from the song, but it may have been the other way around. ("Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall..." like Alice in Wonderland and Alice in the book).
Drugs, teen drama, etc. Hmmm... I'll keep thinking. Another that I think you'd like, though (and nonfiction!) is Glass Castle (is your neighbor in class reading it?). This was a fantastic read in my opinion--fast, eventful, and rather shocking.
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