I do still have some questions after reading. The dramatic ending seemed a little bit cut short to me, and I want to know just a little bit more about what happened after. But other than that, I quite liked how the story was rounded off. The Manifesto on How to be Interesting by Holly Bourne Published by Usborne Publishing on August 1st 2014

Learn about your neighborhood. Seek out new places or revisit old haunts in your town. Make one weekend night a week a "going out" night where you explore the 'hood. I really struggled with the protagonist, Bree, which has never been a problem in Bourne's books before. It might be because The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is written in third person, unlike her other books, but I also just felt that not only did Bree do a lot of horrible things, but she also learned all the wrong lessons. I felt like it was implied that the end justified the means, and her actions seemed excused and celebrated at the novel's close. What absolutely cinched this as a one star book, for me, was the presence of a student-teacher relationship. I wouldn't have touched this if I had known it would feature one so heavily. It made me feel ill to read about it, about Bree's married English teacher who kissed her when she was sixteen. Frankly, I thought it was disgusting and Bourne did not do anywhere near enough to condemn it. It's not that I think Bourne approves of student-teacher relationships, it's just that the book is so heavily from Bree's perspective that all you get, all you experience is Bree's utter adoration and fascination with this man who, objectively, is not only disgusting but also sad, shallow, and pathetic.Show up and talk. The author of the book on being interesting, literally titled How to Be Interesting, has said that the first step to being interesting is to actually show up. Go to things, socialize, meet people. [8] X Trustworthy Source Greater Good Magazine Journal published by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, which uses scientific research to promote happier living Go to source With this book being set in a school, the teen culture was obviously really strong. The way people act, the groups that form in school, the workload – everything seemed exactly the same as when I was in school myself. Which again, impressed me, because every time I’ve read a book set in a school so far it’s been a bit cheesy and full of stereotypes. But in this case, it felt real and I could relate to the experiences there. urn:lcp:manifestoonhowto0000bour:epub:dac1047d-191a-44d9-b8be-3ada84bbb89c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier manifestoonhowto0000bour Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6vz28q9p Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781409562184 From the bestselling author of Soulmates comes a fearlessly frank take on school, cliques and crushes.

I don't understand why authors use this relationship so much. It's creepy. It's dangerous. Often, it doesn't get the true resolution it deserves. As always, the author skips over the severity of this issue. It's a very real thing. IT's not that she fails to mention that the teacher was wrong, it's that she fails to reenforce that. Bree doesn't believe that what he does is wrong, therefore we don't believe what he does is wrong.

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Sign up for class about something you have never done before, like pottery or knitting, or participate in a sport you haven’t played before, like rugby. The story borrows heavily from Mean Girls. Bree is unpopular, but with a makeover and a new wardrobe she is able to infiltrate the "perfects" for research and revenge. Of course, her "research" ends with her getting caught up in the suffocating world of popularity and maintaining perfection, and she cruelly ditches her old friend to be accepted. There’s something about Holly Bourne as a writer, the first time I read this book I couldn’t put it down. The second time I read this book I couldn’t put it down, and now, the third time reading it I still couldn’t put it down! Even after I knew what happened, even after I knew which character spoke next, even after I knew what rule was going to be added to the manifesto I could not put it down. The manifesto on how to be interesting is a book that speaks the hard-honest truth, it doesn’t shy away from subjects that authors would tend to tread lightly around. The manifesto on how to be interesting is a daring book that everyone needs to read! However, Bree’s life isn’t going to plan, so when Mr Fellows tells her she needs to be more interesting Bree takes it too seriously. Starting a blog called, (can you guess?) The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting. She makes some drastic changes to herself (MAKEOVER) to infiltrate the enemy and the school for something worth writing, but without realising it Bree loses herself along the way. Maybe she doesn’t notice though, because she hasn’t even begun to find herself yet.

The whole book was just not what I expected it to be. I had such high expectations because everyone’s always talking about how good Holly Bourne's books are but well, this one just really disappointed me. The plot and the characters were just bad.Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life. Yeah, Bree, self respect is self defined. Not up to your judgemental standards. There was an intense amount of girl hate in this book. Why do authors keep writing books about bullying and play it off as girl hate? It's so out of touch to how a real school exists. There will always be bullies in schools, but this book was not about bullying at all. It was girls hating girls, becoming friends with the girls they hate, then hating girls again. Zo veel gevoelens, zo diep en zo heftig. Niet alleen verdrietige dingen hoor, alles was zo sterk en kwam echt binnen.