{"id":4674,"date":"2008-11-18T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2018-09-03T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:10:51","slug":"book-report-24-girls-in-7-days-by-alex-bradley-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/book-report-24-girls-in-7-days-by-alex-bradley-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought this book<\/a> because I thought it might be a saucy sort of male equivalent of Sex in the City or something. Without a dustjacket, I flipped it open and landed on the first person narrator’s self-description, and that was enough since I had a wallet full of money and a box half full of books at the book fair. I missed the part where it identified him as a high school kid.<\/p>\n

So it’s a young adult novel, set in high school. The main character isn’t so good with the girls, so his friends post an online ad for him seeking a prom date, and it gets a lot of response. So he agrees to evaluate 24 girls for in the week before the prom and then to select one for his date. It takes on a little of a reality show feel, and he deals with the unreality and with the reality of his life.<\/p>\n

Oh, and he grows and learns something about himself at the end.<\/p>\n

Well, then. I frankly missed the YA thing. I went from Hardy Boys in elementary school to hard boiled detective fiction in middle school. I suspect I didn’t miss much, and I used my reading to prepare myself for the grim real world, not the goofy high school world. I’d go on a spurious tangent about how YA books have trained kids to be adolescents in their adulthoods, but frankly, I don’t think enough kids read to have that impact.<\/p>\n

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