Lets Pretend This Never Happened / by Jamie Kelly Reviews

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Let's Pretend This Never Happened

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May 25, 2020

Volume #21 READ FOR BELIEVATHON ROUND 2.

I reread this volume for my rereading childhood favourites video!

representation: yeeeahhhhh, none from what I read.

[trigger warnings are listed at the bottom of this review and may comprise spoilers]

★★

DNF on folio 26 of my reread. As much as this book serial influenced me so much equally a child in terms of keeping my own diaries and reading more than books, it simply doesn't concur up today. It has some of the worst fat-shaming I've seen in a center form and I'one thousand five distressing about it. Defs won't be passing this one on to my children, that'southward for certain lol.

trigger warnings: TERRIBLE fat shaming, slut shaming, potentially racist content?

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    Edited Jan 21, 2009

    Hahahaha! This was hilarious and a quick read. I'm a huge fan of the Georgia Nicholson diaries for teens and this series reminds me a bit of them, although aimed at the younger set up. Information technology'south basically about middle schooler Jamie Kelly, who vents to her "dumb diary" almost schoolhouse, boys, her dog, her family, and most of all, her arch-nemesis, the perfect Angeline. Supplementing each diary entry are these humorous illustrations (drawn past our heroine) that had me laughing out loud.

    As a kiddo librarian, I would probably caution against recommending these to kids who have very cautious or overprotective parents, simply because words similar "impaired" and illustrations depicting the blubbery jowl fat of her obese lunch lady probably won't go over very well in those item households. Just those who grew up on and accept outgrown smart-mouthed characters like Junie B. Jones will feel right at home with this series.

    One of my favorite lines: "He's like a doughnut that secretes its own coat." ~Jamie Kelly, in reference to her sticky baby cousin Eddy

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    two,589 reviews 214 followers

    October 9, 2021

    Jamie Kelly had me laughing out loud more times than I can count. Such hilarious observations and her artwork is a hoot. Her deathly fear of existence nicknamed for life (consider the example of what happened to Butt Buttlington) is a running theme. Also her complicated human relationship with packing a lunch vs. eating the cafeteria lunch leads to some hilarious situations. Non a five-star read every bit there are a couple of cringe-worthy moments -- perhaps that is merely the fact that the volume was written early on in this century. This is a great selection for kids who enjoy lots of illustrations and adopt a diary format. Will exist looking upwards Book #2 to run into what happens side by side for Jamie and the other characters. Will she ever become the attention of the hunky Hudson? What will Angelina practise next? Will Isabella's chapped lip problem return? And more. . .

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    Edited May 27, 2015

    My third-grader had belly-laughs as she read this volume. Information technology's not one that I would have selected for her, simply we all have our guilty-pleasure reads.

    Lines I liked:
    "By the way, you know how the proper name for Angeline'due south hair color is 'Gloriously Heavenly Sunshine'? The people at the dye visitor named the ane that matches mine 'Groundhog'" (22).

    "I was so glad that my hair was back the way that nature had inflicted" (23).

    "Mr. Evans said that I pretty much need an A on my mythology report or my grades would exist with the mermaids. 'You lot know,' he said, 'Below C level.'" (27).

    "Stinker ate my mythology report. [...] Here's how I know he was doing it to get back at me: He only ate the words. He left the newspaper margins in his basin like pizza crusts (66).

      Edited May 5, 2015

      This book is almost a girl named Jamie who has an enemy.The enemys name is Angeline.Angline was mean to Jamie.For example Angeline started to throw meat loaf in the deli.But Jamie got in problem for it.While Jamie was getting in trouble Angeline was wiping her hands off from the meat loaf.Simply is information technology true that Angeline is really that mean. I recommend this volume considering you can make connections to the book if y'all take an enemy of your ain.Too information technology is very funny and very dumb.

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        133 reviews 20 followers

        July 8, 2013

        I picked this up more often than not for "inquiry," considering I'm working on a diary-format novel with a character who starts out in centre school/junior high. I was disappointed by the slut-shaming and fatphobia in this book, and by the MC's stereotypical girl-detest. There really is no plot, other than "I'grand jealous of Angeline and I hate her only I dear her" and of a sudden in the terminal few pages half a bazillion things happen, plot twist! subsequently plot twist! later on PLOT TWIST!!

        The MC's voice is funny (though her personality/viewpoints are irritating). Another thing that bugged me equally I was reading was I felt she seemed likewise "sometime" for a eye schoolhouse student. It doesn't say how old Jamie is (that I recall?) just there are some things that betoken she's in the lower middle school grades (6th), but some of her barrack, turns of phrase, expressions, and thought processes seem to be more high school aged. There's zippo "inappropriate," it just seems more "advanced"/"experienced" than a girl who would put warnings on the front end page of her diary with drawings of severed heads thinking that's actually going to detract people from reading.

        My chief objection is the bodily content, though: the cafeteria lady is gross considering she'due south fat, the most horrible affair imaginable is for Isabella to habiliment her grandmother's "equus caballus-butt-sized" pants, pretty girls are man-stealing b!tches and the nearly of import things in life are boys and existence pretty and having pretty pilus. Is this actually the all-time nosotros can do for our female person readers?

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        Edited January viii, 2010


        MY Stance:
        This volume is pretty overnice for me because Jamie seems to be a crazy girl.. this volume likewise makes y'all laugh.. ! :D

        SUMMARY

        Jamie Kelly is a daughter that has a diary.. and she writes crazy stuff nearly people and makes some drawings (not actually just the author LOL!)Jamie'southward qualities are clever.. Jamie's pilus dye name is "Groundhog".
        Her eye color is light-green and her beat is chosen Hudson Rivers. Her bff is chosen Isabella. Angeline is a clever girl too..she has a nice hair. Her hair'due south name is "Golden Heavenly Sunshine". Jamie is obviously jelous about that..The conflict is ANGELINE .. she doesnt let JAMIE get into Hudson !!!... JAmie REAALLYYYY likes HUdson merely, Angelines beauty is too much!

        -Rachel

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          1 review

          April xv, 2013

          I loved this book because it is funny and silly,and because its like a girls diary

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            fourteen reviews

            August 7, 2012

            I decided to read this book because it fits into one of the categorys on the bingo lath. This volume fits into the category: Your ain selection. This category is interesting considering you get to read watever book y'all want to so there is a improve chance y'all volition enjoy it. My favourite quote from the volume is: "This means that I don't take to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I but accept to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us." What i learned from this volume was that people arent e'er what yous think of them. An interesting grapheme in this book was Isabella because she is Jamie Kellys all-time friend simply she seems that she is hidding a lot from her and is not telling people nigh some of her situations.

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              25 reviews

              February 18, 2017

              it'due south similar a grown man who never went to public school wrote a volume from the point of view of a middle school girl. oh wait. that's what information technology is. i recommend reading it out loud on the floor of the children'southward section of barnes and noble to your friends, similar i did.

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