"The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks" By E. Lockheart
"The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks"
By E. Lockheart
I love this book. I’ve read it so many times that it’s starting to look silly, but I’ve yet to write of a review of it. This is for the rather lazy reason that it would take a great deal of work to figure out just what this book did that was so important to 15 year old Grace, and why Frankie has been a part of me ever since.
Francis Landau-Banks was a quiet girl who liked to read and eat strawberry Mentos. She was the youngest of her family, and everybody called her Bunny Rabbit. She had never been in love.
After being a plain, slightly nerdy child Frankie has recently acquired enough “oomph” to stop a teenage boy at thirty paces. All she had to do was invest in some leave in conditioner to tame her frizz, and let nature do it’s work. It is this transformation that is a catalyst to the much more formidable one that has now begun.
Frankie has the mind of a general, the heart of a rebel, and something to prove.
It would probably be in your best interest not to underestimate her.
This book came to me at an age, and a time, when I badly needed to hear that I was allowed to be strong, to be a force of nature. That I wasn’t the only girl in the world who wanted to tear down walls and question the status quo. It told me I wasn’t alone. I had Frankie.
Through stolen identities, the writing of P.G. Wodehouse, guerrilla art, physiology, feminism, secret societies, and being in a lot of places she shouldn’t be Frankie is discovering just how formidable a force she is. Maybe she’s lost it, but that’s what happens to visionaries who are constantly told they shouldn’t want what they want. Maybe she’s finally found something worth fighting for, and a side of herself who is tough enough and clever enough to fight for it. Maybe she’ll change the world.
I adore Frankie. She’s clever, and creative, and strong. But she’s still just a teenage girl. She gushes over an older guy she has a crush on, she plays ultimate frisbee, and she stays up talking at night with her roommate at the posh boarding school she attends. She is what I would consider a real role model for girls at this age. Frankie is bright, and willing to make changes happen. She makes mistakes, and sometimes she’s a little nuts, but she’s just trying to figure out how to be herself in a world of people telling her that it’s wrong to be a strong female, wrong to shake things up, wrong to be anyone but who they think she is. This is a book for anyone who has ever ignored rules because they don’t make sense, or stepped back and realized just how pointless something is. This book is for every girl who has felt trapped, and has finally had enough.
By E. Lockheart
I love this book. I’ve read it so many times that it’s starting to look silly, but I’ve yet to write of a review of it. This is for the rather lazy reason that it would take a great deal of work to figure out just what this book did that was so important to 15 year old Grace, and why Frankie has been a part of me ever since.
Francis Landau-Banks was a quiet girl who liked to read and eat strawberry Mentos. She was the youngest of her family, and everybody called her Bunny Rabbit. She had never been in love.
After being a plain, slightly nerdy child Frankie has recently acquired enough “oomph” to stop a teenage boy at thirty paces. All she had to do was invest in some leave in conditioner to tame her frizz, and let nature do it’s work. It is this transformation that is a catalyst to the much more formidable one that has now begun.
Frankie has the mind of a general, the heart of a rebel, and something to prove.
It would probably be in your best interest not to underestimate her.
This book came to me at an age, and a time, when I badly needed to hear that I was allowed to be strong, to be a force of nature. That I wasn’t the only girl in the world who wanted to tear down walls and question the status quo. It told me I wasn’t alone. I had Frankie.
Through stolen identities, the writing of P.G. Wodehouse, guerrilla art, physiology, feminism, secret societies, and being in a lot of places she shouldn’t be Frankie is discovering just how formidable a force she is. Maybe she’s lost it, but that’s what happens to visionaries who are constantly told they shouldn’t want what they want. Maybe she’s finally found something worth fighting for, and a side of herself who is tough enough and clever enough to fight for it. Maybe she’ll change the world.
I adore Frankie. She’s clever, and creative, and strong. But she’s still just a teenage girl. She gushes over an older guy she has a crush on, she plays ultimate frisbee, and she stays up talking at night with her roommate at the posh boarding school she attends. She is what I would consider a real role model for girls at this age. Frankie is bright, and willing to make changes happen. She makes mistakes, and sometimes she’s a little nuts, but she’s just trying to figure out how to be herself in a world of people telling her that it’s wrong to be a strong female, wrong to shake things up, wrong to be anyone but who they think she is. This is a book for anyone who has ever ignored rules because they don’t make sense, or stepped back and realized just how pointless something is. This book is for every girl who has felt trapped, and has finally had enough.