Questionable Media Month Part 3
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amatyultareChapter 3 - It’s My Turn
(Note: I am two out of 29 chapters in, and already 10% through the book. So the chapters will be getting even shorter! Hooray!)
Sadie’s mom knows something is wrong because Alex didn’t come to dinner after the first day of school, like he usually does. You know, because his dad is an alcoholic deadbeat and his mom works super-hard and isn’t home much. Sadie “hadn’t uninvited Alex, but I had given him the cold shoulder all day, so I wasn’t surprised when he didn’t show.” And she did this, let’s remember, because he wants to be in a different club than her. For a semester.
Ladies and gentlemen, OUR HEROINE.
Blah blah, we were platonic life theater partners before he DESERTED me, oh woe is me.
“I can see you want to get all dramatic about this…but don’t drop him like a hot potato, like you’ve done with other friends over the years.” <-Sadie’s mom. Honest question – am I supposed to dislike Sadie? Because I’m firmly disliking her at this point.
God, the dialogue is so stilted. I am not going to quote every instance because I’d be quoting the whole book; just take my word for it.
And then we get a Very Symbolic Scene where she contemplates cutting off the friendship bracelet Alex gave her when they were ten, but can’t bring herself to do it.
Theater club meeting! Yes, let’s have a roll call for four pages. That sounds like an excellent idea.
I find it funny, yet predictable, that Sadie’s friend Adrienne is not a fellow actor who might compete with her, but is instead a “loyal and reliable” member of the backstage crew.
Oh good, we’ve got a fat character whose only defining characteristic is being fat. Yay.
This drama club apparently has a total of 13 members, and one of them is strictly backstage. Okay, I take it back; I understand why Sadie is so upset with Alex. They need more people! A cast that small severely limits your musical theater options.
Established Club Advisor (and Sadie’s favorite teacher) is having a territorial tiff with New Hot Music Teacher over the co-running of the drama club. Wait, Sadie founded the club? This high school had no drama club before she convinced her English teacher to let her start one (convinced through her excellent Juliet reading in English class? That makes no sense…)? And I’m sorry, but what freshman English class reads ‘Anna Karenina’?
And we get a further info-dump about something that was already established, i.e. she always gets smaller parts, never the lead, oh boo hoo. Three pages of this, you guys.
“Lucey purred, like the cat that swallowed the canary.” I just – I can’t, you guys.
Sadie dramatically announces that Alex won’t be performing, and no one (except for Loyal Adrienne) cares. Ahahaha.
They can’t decide on a musical! New Hot Music Teacher brings up the idea of writing their own musical! Sadie is intrigued. I am ready for anything that will move this plot forward.
(Note: I am two out of 29 chapters in, and already 10% through the book. So the chapters will be getting even shorter! Hooray!)
Sadie’s mom knows something is wrong because Alex didn’t come to dinner after the first day of school, like he usually does. You know, because his dad is an alcoholic deadbeat and his mom works super-hard and isn’t home much. Sadie “hadn’t uninvited Alex, but I had given him the cold shoulder all day, so I wasn’t surprised when he didn’t show.” And she did this, let’s remember, because he wants to be in a different club than her. For a semester.
Ladies and gentlemen, OUR HEROINE.
Blah blah, we were platonic life theater partners before he DESERTED me, oh woe is me.
“I can see you want to get all dramatic about this…but don’t drop him like a hot potato, like you’ve done with other friends over the years.” <-Sadie’s mom. Honest question – am I supposed to dislike Sadie? Because I’m firmly disliking her at this point.
God, the dialogue is so stilted. I am not going to quote every instance because I’d be quoting the whole book; just take my word for it.
And then we get a Very Symbolic Scene where she contemplates cutting off the friendship bracelet Alex gave her when they were ten, but can’t bring herself to do it.
Theater club meeting! Yes, let’s have a roll call for four pages. That sounds like an excellent idea.
I find it funny, yet predictable, that Sadie’s friend Adrienne is not a fellow actor who might compete with her, but is instead a “loyal and reliable” member of the backstage crew.
Oh good, we’ve got a fat character whose only defining characteristic is being fat. Yay.
This drama club apparently has a total of 13 members, and one of them is strictly backstage. Okay, I take it back; I understand why Sadie is so upset with Alex. They need more people! A cast that small severely limits your musical theater options.
Established Club Advisor (and Sadie’s favorite teacher) is having a territorial tiff with New Hot Music Teacher over the co-running of the drama club. Wait, Sadie founded the club? This high school had no drama club before she convinced her English teacher to let her start one (convinced through her excellent Juliet reading in English class? That makes no sense…)? And I’m sorry, but what freshman English class reads ‘Anna Karenina’?
And we get a further info-dump about something that was already established, i.e. she always gets smaller parts, never the lead, oh boo hoo. Three pages of this, you guys.
“Lucey purred, like the cat that swallowed the canary.” I just – I can’t, you guys.
Sadie dramatically announces that Alex won’t be performing, and no one (except for Loyal Adrienne) cares. Ahahaha.
They can’t decide on a musical! New Hot Music Teacher brings up the idea of writing their own musical! Sadie is intrigued. I am ready for anything that will move this plot forward.
