Sunday, June 24, 2007 ; 11:03 PM♥
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B) Book reviewAuthor:Martha brooks
Title: true confessions of a heartless girl
This book is about a girl, Noreen ,who was the heartless girl in the story,have got herself into all sorts of trouble with the people around her.She lives with her stepsister—Gladys,who was very caring to her,and also loved her,that she would always describe her love for Noreen as “I love you to the stars and back again,right up to the stars”.Gladys is always there to protect her and beside her,whenever her stepfather—whom she called him as stupidhead bob, quarrel with her mom,grace,who was called as Amazing, who has got pregnant by the age of 17,and was so-called saved by Bob, who swore that he would treat the kids well before Amazing married him.And sometimes when Noreen was sort of possessed and could not stop giggling in the bedroom where Gladys was beside her,when their parents quarrel, her stepfather would even rush in to the bedroom and lift her up in the air with a sickening sharp pain in her arm.Gladys escaped from her stepfather by getting married to Gerry,as her stepfather always pick on Gladys, after the incident.Noreen has moved in to stay in the apartment of Gladys’ and Gerry’s,as she really hates to see her stepfather,and sometimes she did not like the idea of visiting her parents every Sunday.
Noreen,is just like a kid,who has flax-coloured eyes,long silky hair, with small hands and feet.She is quite rebellious and had once miss ten days of school in a month at the age of 15.She is always screwing up,and making trouble for Gladys who really could not stand her,as she even went missing for entire 10 days with her boy friend Tyler and have hitched to Saskatoon—another part of the country.She have got a lot of boy friends,and even Tyler had ditched her at one hamburger shop at Saskatoon.She have got to walk back to Gladys house,at Winniepeg.She have been walking along the highway,where she saw Wesley Cuthand.Wesley had fell in love with Noreen at first sight,and even described her like a jackrabbit.They have spent two days and three nights in a cheap motel on the outskirts of Winniepeg,and then Noreen have decided to move out of Gladys’ house and live with Wesley in an apartment at Brandon.Noreen would just spend most of her day in the apartment watching TV and waiting for Wesley to be back from his work as a construction worker.Noreen spent most of her day staying in bed while Wesley worked right through the evening.For a while she is too tired to care.In her spirit,she feels half dead.And she has been feeling bloated and fluish lately.She refused to see the doctor,and the relationship between Wesley and her was drifting apart.She felt that there’s nothing wrong with her and she just wanted to be left alone.And from then onwards,Wesley did not really care about her,like he did not make any breakfast for her in the morning.Then she remembered that Wesley had kept some spare changes in a coffee tin on top of the kitchen cupboard,so she took out some money to buy something for Wesley as she wanted to buy some food for Wesley when he came back from work..They had a romantic dinner,but Wesley did not know where the money came from.The next day,Noreen wanted to paint the ceiling and decorate them like stars shining in the sky as Wesley told her that she would not lonely when she have found a star in the vast sky.So she took more money from the tin,and the whole thing did not go smoothly at all.Wesley was very angry with her as she had made a mess up with his room and even took his money.This is when the story started at her age of 17. She had left Wesley with taking some of his money in the tin and his backpack,and even with his truck.
It was late in the night and she have found a café in the rain,as she have just got lost in the dark.She was all drenched and found the café—Molly Thorvaldson Café owned by Lynda Bradley in Pembina Lake.Lynda was almost closing her shop when she realized about the truck outside her shop and eventually let Noreen stay for the night.Noreen has confessed about what had happened previously to Dolores Harper,who had let Lynda in,when last time Lynda’s parents were dead,and she had left her husband in the February blizzard when she got lost somewhere that night.Dolores was previously a counselor in a high school and she have a kind of power that would make people to confess everything ,and nobody could possibly hide things from her.Dolores had a daughter named,Mirella who was about the same age like Noreen when she have got cancer and had eventually died at the young age. Noreen lived with Lynda at a cottage where Lynda had set up in her office.
After Noreen had stayed with them,she had created lots of trouble with them which eventually made them hate her,like: Noreen has made Tessie—Lynda’s dog ill with feeding it with a chicken wing unintentionally on the night she has stayed with Lynda.She had almost got Delbert Armstrong’s—a farmer,and a friend of Dolores, brother—Danny Armstrong’s cottage that Del had build up for him,since he had died while they were building it,as he always wished to have his own cottage by the beach.Del was very guilty for his death as Del has been holding Danny’s fiancée,Vera’s hand behind Danny which made Danny very mad and eventually dived in to the sea at their cottage with Vera’s father boat and have drowned, Noreen have almost got the whole cottage burnt up as she was just trying to lit up the fire at the fire place,but it did not go well.Then Noreen also created a mess up at Lynda’s shop where she has made all the wires all over the places and which need a lot of money to repair them.Lynda was almost too depressed as there are very little customer in her shop and she was broke.She almost wanted to close down her shop.But in the end Delbert and Noreen had repaired all of them.Noreen found out that she was pregnant with the abnormal symptoms she was having since she left Wesley.She was seven weeks pregnant.And with the counseling of Dolores and the other caring ones around her at Lynda,she had grown up and even said that she love Wesley when she did not even love anyone last time.That was how heartless she was.She even wanted to apologized to Wesley.And in the end Wesley met up with her at M.T. Café after Noreen had finally broke the news to him. Del was actually a sober but has got over with it by himself and through the troubles that Noreen had created for Lynda,Del had showed his love for Lynda as he was always there beside Lynda to help.
Lynda wanted to close down her shop and go back to High school to teach again.However,her son,Seth and herself could not bear to leave the people around them.
Eventually Noreen had miscarriage and she was quite sad as she wanted the baby as one special person,but not one who she could always have again.And she even gave it a temporary name as Star as she hoped that it would be a girl.But in the end she was cheered up by Wesley and had lived with him.And she have also been got everything well with Gladys again. While Lynda did not went to the High school in the end,as she have accepted Del.
This book is indeed very interesting to read and is suitable for teenagers.(: I hope you would like my summary.