The Carrie Diaries (The Book)
I'll admit, I'm jumping on the Carrie Fever band wagon super late...but I must say I'm interested. The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell tells the story of high school senior Carrie Bradshaw before her fab to the max life in The Big Apple. I enjoyed the book; it's your typical teen angst novel about young love, self-realization and drama.
The book starts with Carrie Bradshaw's first day of school in Castlebury Connecticut; where she copes with losing her mother to a serious illness and faces her last year of high school. She and her friends navigate relationship woes, clique drama, and family issues. The book mostly focuses on the up-and-down romance, of Carrie and her relationship with boyfriend Sebastien and her eclectic and overly emotional, and surprisingly backstabbing group of friends.
One of the hot items surrounding Carrie Bradshaw is that she's passionate about becoming a writer but because of her lack of self-realization she struggles to find a way to express truth in her writing. She's cloaked herself, in fantasy and is so self-absorbed that she doesn't truly realize the kind of person she is, and she doesn't really see her friends as they really are. Almost as if she's just living on the surface of her life.
One thing I was surprised about is that Manhattan played a very mall role in Carrie's life. She mentioned living in the city a few times, but never in a way that really made you believe she'd ever work or even live a city life. I've heard that her biggest draw is leaving her small town and living in the ever vibrant NY. Maybe that fire is in the next book.
A novel of nearly 400 pages, left the characters under developed. Even though the books was about a group of high school students, I still would have liked a little more depth into their shallow world. But in the end, I got a sense that Carrie began to look at her self, her family and her friends in truth and therefore has cracked the door to self-realization.
The book starts with Carrie Bradshaw's first day of school in Castlebury Connecticut; where she copes with losing her mother to a serious illness and faces her last year of high school. She and her friends navigate relationship woes, clique drama, and family issues. The book mostly focuses on the up-and-down romance, of Carrie and her relationship with boyfriend Sebastien and her eclectic and overly emotional, and surprisingly backstabbing group of friends.
One of the hot items surrounding Carrie Bradshaw is that she's passionate about becoming a writer but because of her lack of self-realization she struggles to find a way to express truth in her writing. She's cloaked herself, in fantasy and is so self-absorbed that she doesn't truly realize the kind of person she is, and she doesn't really see her friends as they really are. Almost as if she's just living on the surface of her life.
One thing I was surprised about is that Manhattan played a very mall role in Carrie's life. She mentioned living in the city a few times, but never in a way that really made you believe she'd ever work or even live a city life. I've heard that her biggest draw is leaving her small town and living in the ever vibrant NY. Maybe that fire is in the next book.
A novel of nearly 400 pages, left the characters under developed. Even though the books was about a group of high school students, I still would have liked a little more depth into their shallow world. But in the end, I got a sense that Carrie began to look at her self, her family and her friends in truth and therefore has cracked the door to self-realization.
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