How to Build A Girl #Review13

Hello World,


I'm currently laying in my bed feeling like poo. So I'm not actually sure how well this post will sound. My brain is going really fast with everything I want to write down and I'm still feeling a bit feverish. Lets see what I have got.

During last week I have managed to finish How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran, just had to Google to check if I spelt the name correctly, as I am too lazy to go and grab the book downstairs. It's probably not a good start to a review, but I was really glad to have finished that book. I did struggle with it towards the end and by the time I finished it I was like "thank god for that!" 
This is not because I thought it was a terrible book. I actually enjoyed it and I wanted to finish it, because I wanted to know how the book ended. I tend to be the same to books I don't even like, I still have to waste my time and read them because I need to know how it will end. (That is something I actually need to stop doing, because it angers me).

How To Build A Girl, is about a young teenager called Johanna Morrigan, or something. She is an overweight teenager who has lived through embarrassing moments and who parents are both out of work and have problems of their own.. So, Johanna a girl in Wolverhampton in the nineties, wanting to be someone else, who does not want to be herself. Decides she can do either one of the two options, kill herself or build a new person. 

The book includes all these embarrassing scene with alcohol, sex and many musicians. Some are supposed to be laugh out loud and some just make you cringe. It really depends on your type of humour. 
When I first started this book, I felt like I could relate my teenager self to this character. I to was a fat awkward teenager. Like Johanna, I developed this type of woman inside my head that I would like to be and started working towards her. A long the way, she has changed and altered slightly to suit myself more.
However, as I continued to read this book, I started to dislike Johanna. I just wanted to shout at the book, "Why are you doing that?!" "Don't do it, if you don't want to." She was starting to make me feel angry and just, Johanna was just becoming this person that I personally would have found too loud and too obnoxious. 

I feel as if Moran had captured the struggles of girls during this difficult time. Confused and lost, only doing something they don't particularly want to do because it would only mean others will like them better. She captured the struggles of poverty during that time and even now for most teenagers. Moran has created a book that I think most people who believe in feminism should read.

To be honest, there is a big part missing from this post and it is hear in my head, but it is too jumbled up to be expressed into words. I might try and fix that later. 

Claire.