okay. this book was readable. i just couldn't picture it in my head as being a prequel to SATC. i couldn't picture her as Carrie. all i saw was a pimply teenage nerd. i'm not sure why, she wasn't exactly portrayed that way in the book. she wasn't the most popular but she wasn't entirely hated either.

for some reason my imagination pictured where she lived as very similar to the town in the lovely bones. does that make me morbid and weird? probably but i couldn't help it. for some reason i did. maybe because it was set in a similar decade? i dunno. i just really couldn't connect the two stories of Carrie together.

i've started reading summer and the city the sequel and it's like a 180. i can picture this story intertwining with SATC but it's so odd as the carrie between the carrie diaries & summer and the city appear to be so different but they're set within the same year! i don't understand why? how she has written this book is beyond me. her stories are all over the place. definitely in my opinion not the best written work i've ever come across. maybe it's just me and her work does intertwine and cross over and make sense for others, but for me it's muddled.

AND

these two prequels are written like novels. COMPLETELY different from the style SATC is written in! IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?! is there no consistency in the word anymore?? i'd prefer if they were all written in the novel style, but if you start it one way you can't backtrack and take it a different direction with a different style ms bushnell. (rant over)

overly i enjoyed it. a little too gossip girl (pre new york) but bearable. i'm hoping summer and the city will prove to be much better.