CARRIE PILBY

Name: CARRIE PILBY
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Caren Lissner
ISBN: 9781488200588

Author: Caren Lissner

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harlequin Audio

Published: 09/29/2015

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Holidays & Celebrations

Synopsis

Teen Genius (and Hermit) Carrie Pilby's To-Do List:

1. List 10 things you love (and DO THEM!)

2. Join a club (and TALK TO PEOPLE!)

3. Go on a date (with someone you actually LIKE!)

4. Tell someone you care (your therapist DOESN'T COUNT!)

5. Celebrate New Year's (with OTHER PEOPLE!)

Seriously? Carrie would rather stay in bed than deal with the immoral, sex-obsessed hypocrites who seem to overrun her hometown, New York City. She's sick of trying to be like everybody else. She isn't! But when her own therapist gives her a five-point plan to change her social-outcast status, Carrie takes a hard look at herself—and agrees to try.

Suddenly the world doesn't seem so bad. But is prodigy Carrie really going to dumb things down just to fit in?

About Caren Lissner

Caren Lissner describes herself as a “chronic creative writer” who is constantly thinking of story ideas. A University of Pennsylvania graduate with a B.A. in English, she published both serious and humorous pieces in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, McSweeney’s, and Weatherwise Magazine. The joys and frustrations of single nerd-dom in the big city drove her to write the novel Carrie Pilby. You can visit her online at carenlissner.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nafiza

I was expecting a fun, light, quirky read. The cover certainly leads you to believe so and I have a feeling that had I known that the book was way more serious than I was bargaining for, I would have been better prepared to read it. Because Carrie Pilby is most certainly not chick lit. As the synopsi......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

I feel like chick lit does have a chance to get a bad rap. I read this book years ago and it never really left my mind; I picked it up yesterday to reread it and I realized that Lissner wrote a strange little literary novel that just happened to come out in the height of the time when all books my w......more

Goodreads review by Romie

I read this book because my favourite movie is based on it and, as planned, I like the movie more. Now, this book was written in 2003 and the movie is from 2017, so of course there is a huge difference. I'm not saying the book is bad, obviously I still liked it a lot, but there were times Carrie said......more

Goodreads review by Chrystal

Carrie Pilby, a nineteen-year-old prodigy and Harvard graduate, is socially awkward and having a very hard time meeting people that she can befriend or even relate to on a basic level. She consistently looks down on others when they come across as hypocrites based on her moral code or unintelligent......more