Gingerbread

Cyd just got kicked out of her posh east coast boarding school and sent back to San Fransisco to live with Nancy (her mother) and Sid-dad (her step-father). Storming around the house and generally causing trouble, it's a tense situation. The only things that liven it up are her surfer boyfriend Shri......more

Cyd Charisse is what I sort of was in highschool except I didn't have money, I couldn't decide if I was a total slacker or desperate to "be somebody", and I didn't get into trouble. She's also a lot cooler and thinner than I was and more outspoken. OK, she's nothing like me. I really liked this one,......more

Actually, I'd give this 3.5 stars. After reading the Cohn-Levithan collabs Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Naomi and Ely’s No-Kiss List, I developed some sort of thirst for reading something that is written solo by Rachel Cohn. I’m no stranger to David Levithan’s solo books (Boy Meets Boy, The......more

Cyd Charisse is a snarky, punky, not 100% likeable, sexual, boy-crazy, confused teenage girl. All those adjetives are incidently how I would describe the book itself, pretty convienant and now only half the work of writing a review. haha. Cyd is living with her parents in California after being boote......more