![]() ![]() Name-dropping usually doesn’t put a person on my good side, but it worked for Allie. That’s how cool she is – she made me want to impress a fictional character. Then I realized: I wanted to impress Allie. I often couldn’t, which made me feel sixteen shades of uncool. I kept struggling to recognize a name, any name, of a band or musician that I recognized. My reaction: Throughout the book I had a weird feeling. She sets about accomplishing the first goal by starting up a blog and a zine, and she sets about finding romance by fantasizing about a Bob & Bob shopper she calls M (for “mystery guy”). Main character’s goals: to lead a revolution against “corporate rock and downloading and digitizing and Clear Channel” (p. LP: an abbreviation for those ancient things called (long-playing) records that collect dust in your mother’s attic…or, to Allie, the truly righteous and best way of listening to music. Set-Up: Allie, the “Vinyl Princess” as she dubs herself for her blog, works at Bob & Bob Records, a place that her mom says smells “like an octogenarian’s attic” (p. ![]() There are a few excellent books I’ve read recently, but I have to write about this one immediately. ![]()
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