#vicky angel

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And while I’m here talking about Jacqueline Wilson so many of the dads in particular are really creepy (see Jade’s dad in Vicky angel and Ellie’s dad in the girls series)

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i think if youre British you should have your favourite Jacqueline Wilson books + the Jacqueline Wilson books that scarred you for life in your bio instead of star signs, I think this tells you more abt a person than star signs.

my faves were Secrets and Cookie, and the ones that scarred me for life were My Sister Jodie and Vicky Angel. Honourable mentions include: The Illustrated Mum, Dustbin Baby and Bad Girls

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books i actually like

A solid 97% of my ‘book reviews’ (for lack of a better term) are bound to be just me bitching about said book for way too long with way too many expletives, because books I genuinely adore rarely invoke the visceral reaction within me that causes so many of my ‘reviews’ of books I don’t like to be so impassioned and long-winded. Here’s to kicking this dumpster fire off with a little positivity, because that will be little and far in between henceforth.

Harry Potter – J. K. Foul Thing I never understood how someone could appreciate the art and not the artist until Harry Potter. JKR’s dead to me, but the seven original (and only, because I refuse to accept the flaming pile of dog shit that was The Cursed Child as canon) books remain i c o n i c. And you’ll probably witness a LOT of Harry Potter-inspired shitposting on my part if you decide to stick around, because Harry Potter trivia makes up a solid chunk of my personality, and I like to shove my fandoms in other people’s faces. Again, I’m cute like that.

The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank By some odd coincidence, my mum got me Anne Frank’s diary for my 13th birthday, and I always felt like a Super Special Snowflake because of that. Obviously, I can’t relate to being Jewish and in hiding during WWII, but there’s a lot of Anne’s views and thoughts that… resonated with me (ain’t that the most basic-ass description of a book, ever). There’s always the lingering sadness while reading because you know how her story comes to an end, but it’s a book that’s still stuck with me six years later, and for the rest of my mortal life.

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak Why Must I Adore Books That Give Me Naught but Pain: An Autobiography.

Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick Ditto.

Bad Alice – Jean Ure When I first saw the cover, I expected a lighthearted, cheery book. I was very much mistaken. Duffy, a self-proclaimed ‘oddball’, and Alice, another self-proclaimed ‘oddball’, are easily two of my favorite fictional characters, ever. The subject matter is pretty damn dark and rereading the book as an adult is actually kind of scary, but it’s so well-written and engaging and this sounds like I’m an elementary school teacher writing a report card so I’m just gonna stop here.

Tiger Eyes – Judy Blume A true Relic of the angst-riddled phase of my adolescence (I say as if I am not still going through said angst-riddled phase). I’ve been a fan of Judy Blume’s work since one of the girls in my third-grade class bestowed upon me Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; growing up, I’ve become more detached from Blume’s work but Tiger Eyes is a book that’s never gotten old for me. Davey, the angst-riddled adolescent protagonist, is also stubborn and headstrong and angry and scarily relatable to myself at her age, though under wildly different circumstances.

Changeling – Philippa Gregory I’ve read a couple of Goodreads reviews on the Order of Darkness series, and I’ve garnered that Philippa Gregory fans (Philippans? Philipinos?) are not fans of the series. I can’t vouch for that, given that I’ve only ever read the said series, and I’m admittedly not a fan of books two through four (which is basically every book of the series published to date, exempting the first), but Changeling is a book I liked enough to attempt to handwrite it in a notebook back when I was 12 (I gave up after, like, two sentences because my hand started cramping), and also to try and write a ripoff, featuring an angsty young preteen girl with (short) wavy black hair and eyes like limpid tears (gee, I wonder who that could be) (my eyes are brown, though; I dunno why I wrote the self-insert to be blue-eyed).

The Secret History – Donna Tartt My first foray into dark academia; sadly, reading The Secret History before any other books in the (sub?)genre made every other book pale in comparison. What’s so special about The Secret History for me is that I hate every main character, with passion. Each and every one of them; not just Bunny, but Richard and Henry and Charles and Camilla and Francis and Julian can all go fuck themselves for all I care- but I find them so fascinating. The story and the way it’s written is pretty over-the-top dramatic and my struggling bilingual arse had to look up every tenth word or so, but I adore it with every fibre of my being. Well, the leftover fibres of my being that aren’t simping over Kim Seungmin.

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket Does this count as the first step of my emo phase? Shoutout to the girl in seventh grade I sat next to for, like, two weeks, who lent me The Wide Window and got me hooked on the series.

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll This entire book feels so trippy.

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett It’s corny and Everything Works Out Swell for the Goody Guys in the End! in period-typical book fashion, but it got me through many a boring class in the spring of my ninth year of personhood, so I’ll always have a soft spot for Mary and Dickon and Colin and the rest of the gang. It also inspired me to Cultivate, and there are two pretty bougainvillea plants in my garden thanks to one Mary Lennox.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Emily M. Danforth Cameron Post: the lesbian baddie we all aspire to be.

Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson Yet another shoutout to my seventh-grade seatmate for lending me her copy of Vicky Angel, which I read under my covers like it was a bloody nudie mag.

A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin Where’s Winds of Winter, George?

Turtles All the Way Down – John Green Paper Towns used to be my favorite John Green book until I read Turtles All the Way Down last year. I adore John Green’s writing style (maybe not the #deep #woke #sadboi #middleclass #white #male #cisgender #heterosexual #personalityofabreadroll leads in a solid chunk of his books, though) and okay, so maybe Davis fits all of the above, but my true faves are Aza and Daisy and their dynamic.

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee I keep calling this ‘HOW to Kill a Mockingbird’ in conversations and it gets really fucking inconvenient.

Coraline – Neil Gaiman I just wish I’d read this sooner than I did.

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I'm reading Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson and I came across this part and omg, please let Jade be asexual 😭🥺

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Ive been thinking a lot about Jaqueline Wilsons work because i imagine that a lot of that would be censored in the current day and age

Like ive previously thought that i probably read her book Vicky angel when i was too young, i was like 8 when i read it and i said it in a joking way but i actually think that i was at the right age to read it

(Im not sure how well I’ve tagged this so ive added a cut and i will say that i am talking about a book centred around death and the effects of that theres also brief reference to a couple of other books with darker themes (by brief reference i mean a couple of words saying the bare bones plot of those books)

Its about this girl who I think is called jade (ill refer to her as jade for the rest of this post) whos best friend is hit by a car and dies. The book follows jade as she copes with the loss of her friend and it also kind of reveals that vicky isnt a very nice person: at vickys funeral jade was asked to read out a piece of writing that Vicky had written however in reality jade had been the one to write it, vicky once when they were younger had convinced jade to cut the hair off of her doll to make it look bad, she generally seemed quite cruel. Another important part of this book is that vicky sort of haunts jade and is still horrible to her in death, people try to help jade by inviting her to do things so that she has friendships but vicky tells her to reject them because that would be Jade replacing vicky with others (which is probably something that jade is worried about but the way vicky tells her to do jt shows vickys cruelty) and even tries to convince jade to jump off a train so that she can also die and join her and this could just be jade coping with the loss of vicky and this is what she imagines vicky would tell her to do but still it presents vicky as this horrible person but through the eyes of someone who genuinely cannot see that properly. I do believe that as a book it really handled acknowledging that jade was upset about the death of her best friend while also giving loads of examples about how her best friend wasnt very nice without making jade seem stupid for not noticing

I may have been a bit young to read that book but it hasnt affected me in any proper way and i think it was quite good at showing the affects of grief and Jaqueline wilson writes these books with important themes for kids and they are so good probably because she doesn’t think that children cant cope with these themes. I know that one of her books has a character who is kissed by her teacher and she has books with people struggling with eating disorders (i think thats in a series aimed more at teenagers but still)

The point im trying to make is children often know more and can understand more than adults give them credit for, i understood what death was and while i didnt know the words to say that jade was struggling with mental health issues because shed lost her friend, if i reread the book now it would probably be clear that she was (its been so long since i read that book and i don’t have it any more so im not saying for certain but i think its a reasonable assumption)

Like obviously not everyone will cope with the things brought up in the books but i knew that vicky angel was about a girl whos friend died when i bought it because it said so on the back cover and now some books are coming with a list of content warnings at the front so that people can decide whether or not they want to read the book which is great and i think that that would be a better way to protect kids than just keeping things off limits because a child whos friend has just died is unlikely to want to read a book like vicky angel while they are still dealing with the loss but that shouldnt mean that the book is off limits to everyone it just means that people should be told about the themes of the book and left to decide on their own whether or not it would be a good idea to read it.

Ive just realised that this is quite a rambly wall of text apologies, hopefully my point comes across clearly.

Also im not sure whether i completed the thought but the trains kicking me off here so lets hope so

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vicky and jade are gay and in love

well. WERE gay and in love

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Our most popular Children's Fiction ebooks in March 2017

Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson check the library : https://goo.gl/UapB6J

'You look as if you've seen a ghost!' Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky, her loud, confident best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons, out running or tentatively trying to make new friends, Vicky is determined to make her presence felt . . .

A Girl Called Dog by Nicola Davies check the library : https://goo.gl/qWGoHd

Dog wasn't really a dog, she was a human girl. But she was called Dog because that is what Uncle had always called her.Dog has never been outside of nasty Uncle's pet shop. She sleeps in a box on a floor and has no idea what the world outside looks like. Then in a flurry of colour and feathers, Carlos the parrot arrives in the shop and her world as she knows it changes for ever.Managing to escape, Dog, Carlos and her best friend Esme the coati set out, in search of the same thing, somewhere they belong, somewhere they can call home. But the world is a huge, dangerous place, and they face danger and adventure at every turn . . . A spirit-soaring tale of adventure, friendship and belonging that will appeal to all lovers of Michael Morpurgo and Roald Dahl.

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"Vicky Angel" Jacqueline Wilson

Vicky's my best friend. -

- She flaps her wings as white as swansdown, waves one last time, and flies away.