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To Night Owl from Dogfish
by Meg Wolitzer, Holly Goldberg Sloan
I did not know what I was getting into when I opened the pages of this book. It was chosen as a mailed markup book club where we each pick a title. This is not normally a book I would have chosen, but I am so glad someone in my group did. It was simply wonderful.
This book is a collection of letters between two girls who never want to meet, but are destined to be sisters. They find out that their gay dads are sending them to camp so that the dads can go on a romantic trip to China. While at camp the girls are to at least get to know each other. But plans are almost ruined with the first letters as Avery, aka Night Owl, gets her first letter from Bett, aka Dogfish, about wanting to break up their dads and keep their families as they are. Brett is very much a go getter. She is active, sporty, and sometimes runs away with ideas that could get her in trouble. Avery is very studious and cautious, sometimes to the extreme. These girls will have a year they never forget.
This book feels so much like the parent trap (Haley Mills version only) without being a copy or a retelling. You get that same happy place feeling of two girls who just try to get everyone around them to want what they want so that everyone can be as happy as they.
I love that this book is told as a collection of letters and emails. It gives the reader an inside look at what each character is thinking. I appreciate that the letters were not just from Avery and Bett, but from both dads, grams, Betty, and even camp directors and counselors.
Once you start this book, you will have a hard time putting it down. I read it in less than 24 hours. If i hadn’t started it at 11 pm, I would have probably read it right through to the end. It reads fast and has so many great things between its pages. I am thankful to my friend who said, hey all, let's read this. It will now go on my always recommend pile. It will fit so many categories, and for so many reading prompts, and so many different reasons you could pair it to a read. Love this book!
#ReadHarder
#Booked19 #remindsmeofahappyplace
#LittleLoveBingo #wanderingbookaneer
#NancyDrewChallenge #MCdliesonanairplane
This book is a collection of letters between two girls who never want to meet, but are destined to be sisters. They find out that their gay dads are sending them to camp so that the dads can go on a romantic trip to China. While at camp the girls are to at least get to know each other. But plans are almost ruined with the first letters as Avery, aka Night Owl, gets her first letter from Bett, aka Dogfish, about wanting to break up their dads and keep their families as they are. Brett is very much a go getter. She is active, sporty, and sometimes runs away with ideas that could get her in trouble. Avery is very studious and cautious, sometimes to the extreme. These girls will have a year they never forget.
This book feels so much like the parent trap (Haley Mills version only) without being a copy or a retelling. You get that same happy place feeling of two girls who just try to get everyone around them to want what they want so that everyone can be as happy as they.
I love that this book is told as a collection of letters and emails. It gives the reader an inside look at what each character is thinking. I appreciate that the letters were not just from Avery and Bett, but from both dads, grams, Betty, and even camp directors and counselors.
Once you start this book, you will have a hard time putting it down. I read it in less than 24 hours. If i hadn’t started it at 11 pm, I would have probably read it right through to the end. It reads fast and has so many great things between its pages. I am thankful to my friend who said, hey all, let's read this. It will now go on my always recommend pile. It will fit so many categories, and for so many reading prompts, and so many different reasons you could pair it to a read. Love this book!
#ReadHarder
#Booked19 #remindsmeofahappyplace
#LittleLoveBingo #wanderingbookaneer
#NancyDrewChallenge #MCdliesonanairplane