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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Review of Flygirl

The book Flygirl focuses on the life of Ida Mae Jones or Jonesy. Ida is an African-American girl who wants to fly. The best way to describe Ida's life is this as she so nicley states on page 33".....If you're colored, you get the short end of the stick. If you're a woman, you get the short end of the stick. So what do we get for being both colored and women?" Ida over comes one of these issues to be able to fly by joining WASP - Women Airforce Servie Pilots. The issue is that she has to pretend she's white which her pale complexion allows. She lives in fear of what will happen if they find out?

I found Flygirl to be terrible I just hated it. I found it to be boring, and dry at some places. Not to mention it skipped around too much so I never connected with a character, and it was occasionally confusing. Finally it had a terrible ending which is something I just can't stand. Although Abby who I read this with would disagree.

I would recommed Flygirl to......well nobody!!!! No one deserves to have to read this terrible book, but if you want read it go ahead you might find it great.

Yes I know I said terrible a lot but that's how I felt about this book.

~Dana

3 comments:

  1. THAT WAS A GREAT BOOK! UR A FLYGIRL HATER!!! JK

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  3. Omgosh. That was one of my fav books!!! Y did you hate it so much (besides the fact that it skipped around.)??

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