Maggie: Diary Two (California Diaries)
by Ann Matthews Martin
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Author: Ann Matthews MartinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-08
ISBN: 0590023837
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Scholastic
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Book Review: Why bother?
Summary: 1 Stars
Maggie: Diary two, written by Ann M. Martin, was honestly not as enjoyable as I expected. When I first heard about this book I expected to go into the mind of Maggie, but that's not what happened. Instead I got a grocery list of what she ate that day and a page on how she has a crush on her band mate, Justin Randall. I mean do I really care about EXACTLY what she ate? For example, she shared that she had a "half tuna sandwich (NO MAYO)".
The book is basically about a girl whose mother is an alcoholic and whose father is a big time guy in Hollywood. She has a brother named Zeke, and that's about it; there really wasn't much else to the story. The only plot was, she thought she was fat so went anorexic, and along the way told about her job and secret crush.
This book was also a waste of time because it was so predictable. The whole book she goes on and on about how she worries about her mother drinking at this benefit, well surprise, surprise...she does, and gets drunk. And then, she complains about her father and once again, here's a big surprise, she gets in a fight with him. And finally, she admits to her problem and everyone lives happily ever after. But that's not all; her negativity is so amazingly annoying. On almost every entry, she complains. Whether she's complaining about her weight, her job, her friends, her parents, her brother, or her date, she just HAS to get something bad out of it. To prove this, she actually says, "I'm fat, I can't sing, I CAN'T keep my grades up, I AM UGLY!" Finally, this whole story just seems fake, being she's the daughter of a famous man living in Hollywood and wants to be thin, and so cliché that's it's simply just a waste of time and effort.
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