E Lockhart

Just finished reading The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart. At first I thought it reminded me of John Green's Looking for Alaska since most of the plot concerns romance and pranks at an exclusive boarding school. However, I enjoyed this more than the Green novel. The  main character, Frankie, calls herself a feminist and  refuses to be held back by patriarchal power. I enjoyed the playfulness with language in this book, and especially the way Lockhart sometimes guides us through Frankie's thought processes in a very detailed way as she works out how best to respond to a difficult situation.

I have read We Were Liars, and fully intend to read more from this writer.

The opening few pages - Frankie's letter to the school administration about some of the pranks she has orchestrated - are amazing. If you read these I am pretty sure you will want to devour the whole thing.

Anyway, must get back to reading The Suffragette Movement. You know how it can be when all your library reservations come in at once ....