July 26
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Recent Arrivals: Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
Recent Arrivals chronicles the books that have made their way onto the Today, I Read… bookshelf. Here’s the latest arrival: Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
First line: Last April when I decided to defer college for a year my friends said I was insane, but I’m not.
Initial thoughts: I can’t say entirely why this title appealed to me as much as it did. Maybe it’s the voyeur in me wanting to break free. There’s something interesting about watching sometime’s life unfold as though you were peeping in through a window–see how other people live…even if it is a work of fiction. Plus, it ups the ante by revealing these escapades via blog entries. Also, I wanted to see how a middle-aged man would handle writing a teenage female protagonist.
