The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

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Bree's life doesn't look so bad from the outside: she lives in a big house, her parents love her in their own way, she's smart, has written two novels (unpublished, but written at least!) and she couldn't ask for a better friend than Holdo. But on the inside things are different: her home is alienating, her dad is never home, her mum's only interested in being a yummy mummy, the rejection letters from publishers get her down, and above all, she's not interesting or popular. But she is determined, and sets out a plan to become interesting, popular, and to upset the existing hierarchy in her school. 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. 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.

Inspired by what she saw, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling, award-winning ‘Spinster Club’ series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, 'How Do You Like Me Now?', examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark. Definitely a book with a few lessons to teach us and although it is aimed at a female audience there are many things that teen boys could learn as well. It really makes you think about the world our young people are growing up in. * Books for Keeps *

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Bree sighed, bored of this evening, bored of her life. Tired of it always feeling like sludge to wade through.

Bree is an outsider at her school and her two novels have been rejected by many publishers. That's why she wants to become interesting, to become popular. So she can live a better life or how she called it "A life worth writing about". Then she starts this absolutely ridiculous blog called "The Manifesto on How to be Interesting". Her blog posts made me just so angry. Alongside her writing, Holly has a keen interest in women’s rights and is an advocate for reducing the stigma of mental Holly started her writing career as a news journalist, where she was nominated for Best Print Journalist of the Year. She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health. You want to leave a mark, not a blemish. Be a hero, not a spectator. You want to be interesting. (Who doesn t?) But sometimes it takes a nudge, a wake-up call, an intervention! and a little help. This is where Jessica Hagy comes in. A writer and illustrator of great economy, charm, and insight, she s created How to Be Interesting, a uniquely inspirational how-to that combines fresh and pithy lessons with deceptively simple diagrams and charts. Ms. Hagy started on Forbes.com, where she s a weekly blogger, by creating a How to Be Interesting post that went viral, attracting 1.4 million viewers so far, with tens of thousands of them liking, linking, and tweeting the article. Now she s deeply explored the ideas that resonated with so many readers to create this small and quirky book with a large and universal message. It s a book about exploring: Talk to strangers. About taking chances: Expose yourself to ridicule, to risk, to wild ideas. About being childlike, not childish: Remember how amazing the world was before you learned to be cynical. About being open: Never take in the welcome mat. About breaking routine: Take daily vaca- tions . . . if only for a few minutes. About taking ownership: Whatever you re doing, enjoy it, embrace it, master it as well as you can. And about growing a pair: If you re not courageous, you re going to be hanging around the water cooler, talking about the guy that actually is. How to Be Interesting: An Instruction Manual by Jessica Hagy – eBook Details 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! Still, sometimes I even found myself engaging in Bree's transformation and hoped for the popular kids to actually like her so that she could establish an honest and kind friendship with them. Her manifesto changes the relationship to her parents as well and especially the bond between mother and daughter. The family part of Bree's story was probably my favourite because it was the one most real and emotional.

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The reason why I say the book is inconsistent is because there passages and descriptions that were not very elegant and made me cringe. But in general, Ms Bourne managed to create an interesting and deep main character while also making me care for the other characters around. Bree is also very clever and witty and quite aware of her shortcomings. I also really enjoyed the depiction of Bree's mother, who seems to be a grade A plastic, but is very caring and quite smart actually and of her father, a powerful absentee dad. The whole story had a very "Mean Girls" vibe to it and with the movie being one of the best teen movies around, I did really enjoy the plot. And for pretty girls at school, their moment would soon be over. They were peaking at their happiness levels much too early. Which is why Bree stayed ugly–to delay the peakage to a usefulage. Another reason why Bree was much smarter than most people.“

And at the end of the book they're suddenly friends again? Who would want to be friends with her after something like that? Learn to present what you have to say in an engaging manner. Being interesting is as much about how you say something as what you have to say. Two people can tell the same story, but one person can do it in a droning, boring way and the other in a punchy, engaging bit. You want to be the latter. [15] X Research source Surprisingly Manifesto was quite dark; I was expecting it to be kind of clique and Mean Girls-esque, but I was more then wrong. OK, so the book has stereotypical characters but so does school and they just made it more interesting. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000293 Openlibrary_edition En oh boy, dit boek stelde echt niet teleur. Ik heb vaker meegeleefd met personages of emoties voor hun situatie gevoeld. Maar meeleven zoals met dit boek, de gevoelens zo heftig alsof het mijzelf overkomt, wow, dat heb ik nog nooit zo gehad.However, in many ways this book is superficial and shallow, with our protagonist's happiness relying upon popularity. As she desperately seeks her peers' acceptance, we watch as Bree turns into a selfish, spiteful, and mean person. Her high school dreams are achieved simply by a makeover and a few bitchy remarks.

Then we have Holdo, her best friend. He was such an interesting character and a really good friend to Bree? And what does she do? She kisses him and wants to have sex with him because she feels sorry for him? Sorry, because he won't really have other chances to do it due to his “bad looks”?! Like, what the hell?!?!?BUT I couldn't stop reading, I was drawn into the book and the lives of these characters despite pretty accurately predicting what would happen. I just don't know how to feel. I enjoyed it, I think, just not as much as I had expected too. I think I possibly put my expectations on this book too high after loving Holly's other book 'Am I Normal Yet?' so much. Toen ik even een beetje humeurig was want ik had weinig leestijd en allemaal dikke boeken en ik had gewoon even behoefte aan iets leuks, maar iets dat wel gegarandeerd goed was, greep ik naar Holly Bourne. Ze is een soort van comfort blanket ofzo. I couldn’t really connect with her, since every time she did something I’d be sat thinking “whyyyyy Bree whyyyy?!?“ Nevertheless, Bree is imperfect and makes some stupid decisions regarding her romances. This certain aspect was probably my biggest frustration in the book but I do get that the Bourne probably thought it necessary for Bree’s character development. I did like that everyone’s flaws were laid out though. Bourne was keen on exposing her characters, why they do the things they do and she does it in a manner that’s truthful and makes you ponder about real life. The context of being in high school most especially the bullying, the ‘perfect posse’, the facades people keep and the way looks and popularity changes things plays a huge role here and the portrayal was just as authentic. Overall, I recommend people skip this book and try some of Bourne's The Spinster Club books, which I found to be much more enjoyable.