04025cam a2200385 4500 234586887 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062350817 0062350811 74defd4f-8222-4252-9b11-0e00351f8a6b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1942936 OverDrive (Product ID) 1942936 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Moran, Caitlin. How to Build a Girl [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 262MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 262MB. Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) This coming-of-age story depicts Johanna Morrigan's transformation as she rebuilds herself and creates the life she wants to have. Louise Brealey is perfect as the voice of Johanna (a.k.a. Dolly Wilde). The story begins with the 14-year-old British teen making a fool of herself on a local television show and deciding to create a new persona--Dolly--and a career for herself as a music critic. Brealey's accent and light tone fit with Johanna's exploits and offbeat style. For her portrayals of secondary characters, however, Brealey varies her volume rather than giving them voices of their own. While much of the story is told through Johanna's thoughts and words, the dialogue of the other characters distracts from the story and takes away from the otherwise great narration. E.N. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:<p>What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build <i>yourself</i>.</p> <p>It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in <i>Little Women</i>, or the Brontës—but without the dying-young bit.</p> <p>By sixteen, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper. She's writing pornographic letters to rock stars, having all the kinds of sex with all the kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.</p> <p>But what happens when Johanna realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks enough to build a girl after all?</p> <p>Imagine <i>The Bell Jar</i>—written by Rizzo from <i>Grease</i>. <i>How to Build a Girl</i> is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. Brealey, Louise. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=74defd4f-8222-4252-9b11-0e00351f8a6b http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0293-1/1942936-HowToBuildAGirl.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/1942936-HowToBuildAGirl.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74DEFD4F-8222-4252-9B11-0E00351F8A6B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0293-1/1942936-HowToBuildAGirl.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/1942936-HowToBuildAGirl.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=74DEFD4F-8222-4252-9B11-0E00351F8A6B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)