Airhead, Meg Cabot, Point, 352
I found this book on my Amazon recommendation list and have read other books by this author so I decided to read this one.
Em Watts is a self-describe “weirdo” who survives high school with her sole friend (and crush) Christopher. During a freak accident at the grand opening of the SoHo Stark Megastore she put in the hospital. Months later she wakes up to find herself in another body, the body of supermodel Nikki Howard. Em is thrown into a new life pretending to be Nikki but only wanting to be herself again. She fumbles along and tries to adapt to her new lifestyle and still hold onto her old one.
The intended audience is pre-teen and young adult females.
The author writes in an informal teenage script that captures pop culture today. “Gabriel Luna himself was within autographing distance. Heck, he was within TOUCHING distance. Not that, you know, I was going to reach out and grab a big hunk of his shirt or anything. I’m just saying I could have. If I’d wanted to.” (36)
“Was I the first-ever recipient of a whole-body transplant? Had that plasma screen crushed my body but spared my brain? Had Dr. Holcombe then removed my brain and transplanted it into the nearest convenient brain-dead body on hand…the body of Nikki Howard…” (121) This passage really struck me because it’s the first time the whole incident with Em not recognizing her body makes some sense.
“ “Emerson Watts’s heart, however,” Mr. Philips continued, “stopped beating well over a month ago. If all motor function has ceased in a body, and the brain is removed, then that person, by legal definition set in place by a landmark 1984 court decision here in New York State, id deceased. Whereas the person with the living brain and beating heart― in this case, Nikki Howard ― is, legally, alive.” (169) This passage really makes you think about how things are seen from a legal standpoint.
“I didn’t want to mention the truth ― that I felt bad for Lulu, because she didn’t seem to have any parents…who cared about her, anyway.” (336) This passage really struck me because I have such a close relationship with my parents and it hurts when I see when other people that don’t. Everyone deserves someone who loves you as unconditionally as a parent does.
I related to Em and Christopher because I know I’m not the most popular person who does the ‘cool’ things. I’m a vegetarian who speaks openly about world peace and environmental issues. I’m not going to cheer on the basketball team because I like a guy that’s playing; I’m going to cheer on the team because I love the sport. Em and Christopher play video games because that’s what they like to do and they’re good at it.
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This book seems interesting. It seems like something I might like to read and I'd probably relate to it a lot, too. (I like playing video games.) And the plot seems good. But I wonder if that actually happened, if anyone would believe you? Or if you'd be trapped in that body forever and no one would know that it's you.
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This seems like an intresting book. I think i might read it beacuse I'm curious about how the author wrote out the idea of someone being put in a different body. Like how he made it to sound possible?
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I have all of the princess diaries books by Meg Cabot and they all crack me up. I think that Meg has a very humourous and a very like I-don't-care type of attitude which comes more down to the teenage level. I loved your second passage because it really does sound like a teenage girl thinking about the possiblity and the reasons for the transformation. I like that the book isn't your ordinary life situation and it makes you really think of the possiblities. This book kind of reminds me of the disney movie "Model Behavior."
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