Like the Red Panda (Harvest Book)

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Like the Red Panda is debut author Andrea Seigel's brutal answer to the throngs of Chick Lit novels that have inundated book clubs and influenced the big screen over the past decade. Stella Parrish, Seigel's tragic heroine, is 17, extremely wise beyond her years, completely alienated from her peers and her foster family, and determined to kill herself before she arrives at Princeton's gates in the fall. Seigel's task here is difficult--she's created a character of extraordinary depth, given her an unpleasant (at best) mission, and attempted to make her amusing and interesting, all at the same time. In many ways, the author's success should be widely applauded, even if she falls short on occasion.

Like the Red Panda enjoys its greatest success when Stella is commenting on the people around her. Her wry observations about her cranky old grandfather, her pot-smoking classmates in AP English, and her brilliant, unmotivated drug-dealing ex-boyfriend paint an equally amusing and insightful portrait of suburban life in America. When describing the temple-going practices of her jumpy and awkward foster parents, Stella explains that services are held on Sunday morning instead of Saturday, "mostly so everyone could be on the same worship schedule as their Christian friends. This benefited cross-religion plan-making on the weekends." When Seigel strays from witty observations like these, the novel has a tendency to lose its quirky appeal and simply becomes a tale of disenchanted youth. Thankfully, Like the Red Panda delivers more laughs than tears, and rewards readers with a unique blend of one-part teenage angst mixed with two-parts comedic wit. --Gisele Toueg

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Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever more ingenious ways of committing suicide in his retirement home. Here are the last two weeks of Stella's senior year in Orange County, California: the intensive AP final exams; the childish, celebratory trips; the totemic importance attached to graduation. Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on her life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it, planting clues and providing explanations for those who will try to understand the act she is about to commit. With perfect pitch, remarkable wit, and a spare, vivid prose, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a wry philosophical inquiry.

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Haunting and scary...........2007-03-16

I've always been an optimist, despite experiences with anxiety and depression. I've also always believed that when people are incurably sick they should have the right to end their lives the way they want, when they want. I'd never really thought about people that were mentally ill, but after reading this book I was stunned and speechless. If the main character where my friend I would have no idea what to say or do. The author does such a frighteningly good job of conveying the emptiness and inability to attach to anyone or anything that I could think of no other way for the book to end. I kept waiting for something to change, some magic intervention and it didn't come. And although I was sad, I was also profoundly respectful of an author that could not only make me feel for this character but didn't insult the book with a slap-dash happy ending. I didn't see this book coming. It's not really about depression, it's about meaninglessness. This book took a while to shake off.

So good I think I have a crush on the author........2005-12-14

Seigel's debut novel, Like the Red Panda, is written journal-style: a brilliant Princeton-bound high school senior attempting to explain why she is going to commit suicide. What can I say about this young author's first book other than "Wow." She takes on a heavy topic (or really, a number of them, as the protagonist has been orphaned, is friendless, lives a life that is basically invisibly to her odd foster parents, and dates a drug dealer) and without cheating the subject matter, keeps the read (for the most part) light and funny. Her writing is skillful and smart but unpretentious. I heard the term chick-lit thrown about as I read reviews for this novel -- it is no such thing. It is a moving coming-of-age novel, and, put simply, a worthy read.

Oh yeah, one final note: A couple of people have criticized the novel as basically a Catcher In The Rye rip-off. This is, in a word, stupid. Salinger's novel hits so many readers because the theme is so universal. How then can it be surprising that he has not been the only author to tackle that theme? Is Salinger (who incidentally IS one of my favorite authors) to have the final word on teen angst? Did he tackle the topic so thoroughly and definitively that there is nothing left to say? Of course not. Such a suggestion is absurd. Sure, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but some opinions are better left unheard. Seigel's take on the theme is both moving and entertaining.

Lingers in your mind.......2005-11-17

I debated about reading this novel because I knew it dealt with suicide and that's not my favorite topic to read about. But I read this anyway and I'm glad I did.

The book is written in diary form, with Stella leaving it behind as her last memories of the world when she kills herself. She didn't seem that suicidal but rather bored with her life and wanting to do something that left behind a legacy. That made reading this all the more interesting, because she wasn't the typical depressed teen.

Each day she writes is filled with amusing observations and memories about the world around her and such insightful writing. I could not put this book down because it was written so well!! I wanted to know everything - will she kill herself? what will happen with the one gil who's becoming her friend? what's up with the guy she's sort of dating?

I know this book is darker than most - it's not candy-coated chick lit, but the writing is so much depper and so much more insightful that any of those books. I will be recommending this to everyone, and I'll have to buy the author's next book when it comes out!

andrea rules.......2005-08-24

I wish this book had been around when I was a teenager. Funny and sad all at once-- much like my own teenage years. Like the Red Panda is brilliant in its ability to address complex issue with simple, intelligent and wry prose. So yeah, buy the book, it's good.

Reflections on a coming of age story.......2005-03-28

Many authors have tackled the coming of age story from various angles. Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures Huckleberry Finn spring instantly to mind, although your milage may vary. Unfortunately, the coming of age genre -- no matter how well crafted an individual story may be -- tends to become somewhat played out and predictable. The characters all seem to sucessfully overcome the problems of childhood, come to fundamental realizations about their own lives, accept responsibility, and move on to the greener pastures of adulthood. In Like the Red Panda, Seigel explores the darker possibilities. Stella (Seigel's main character) may be brilliant, funny and talented; but she just doesn't get it. Finding nothing but emptiness in her personal accomplishments, dysfunctional family, hollow love life, and future prospects, Stella decides to end it all. Throughout the book, one feels that she might snap out of her funk. Through Stella's intimate encounters, academic achievments, newfound friendship, and opportunities to bond with her alienated family, Seigel leaves the reader with a feeling that Stella is always just on the cusp of abandoning her suicidal ambition to persue a happy and productive future. Seigel goes so far as to provide a stark contrast in the form of Ainsley -- a former outcast and shadow who blossoms as her highschool days come to an end. However, this book's brilliance is that it deviates from the conventional coming of age tales by showing us that the journey from child to adult is indeed perilous. Stella ultimately abandons her promising future, refuses to accept responsibility, and is consumed by the problems of her troubled past. Although Like the Red Panda falters in places (the ending in particular seems somehow forced), it is entertaining, witty, and, above all, provides a much needed counter-point to all the Holden Caulfields scattered across the literary landscape.

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A lovely story
Easy Worthwhile Summer Read
Nice, short love story
Report: THE ORANGE GIRL
An enthralling story about love, life, and the universe

The Orange Girl
Jostein Gaarder
Manufacturer: Orion Publishing
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At fifteen, Georg comes upon a letter written to him by his dying father, to be read when he comes of age. Their two voices make a fascinating dialogue as Georg comes to know the father he can barely remember, then is challenged by him to answer some profound questions. The central mystery of The Orange Girl is the story of an elusive young woman for whom Georg’s father searches in Oslo and Seville—and whom Georg finally realizes is his mother. This is a thought-provoking fairy-tale romance imbued with a sense of awe and wonder. Jostein Gaarder is the author of Sophie's World, a huge bestseller in over 40 countries.

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A lovely story.......2007-10-11

This is a great story by my favorite author. It's a quick read and is hard to put down. If you enjoyed The Solitaire Mystery you should definitely read this. It's not a fantasy like The Solitaire Mystery, and not quite as heavy as Sophie's World. I recommend both of those books, too.

Easy Worthwhile Summer Read.......2007-07-28

This very interesting book can be read in a day and discussed for a lifetime. I started reading the book, left it on the coffee table, and my daughter picked it up and read it the same day. We have enjoyed discussing its themes; life, love, death, etc. However, we have decided it is really all about hope.

Nice, short love story.......2007-05-09

This is a nice, short love story filled with an interesting little mystery and some deep sorrow. Though I feel this book is good for everyone, I think it is still somewhat of a 'chick book' and probably more movingly visceral for people with children. The question the book poses is good, but I think the answer is somewhat obvious.

Report: THE ORANGE GIRL.......2006-12-14

I'd like to present the book "The Orange Girl" to you. It is playing in Norway and is about the luck to live.
The story is told by a boy and his father. The father died when the son was four years old and after eleven years there appears a letter from the father to his son, which he has written before his death when he already knew that he has to die because of a hard disease.
In the letter the dad sais good-bye to his son Georg and tells him about the search of the Orange Girl. It is the story of a big love. The Orange Girl is Georg's mother.
For Georg this is a perfect journey through the past.
The book is written by Jostein Gaarder. He has written some other books like e.g. Maya, The Christmas Mistery or Sophie's World.
And he got several awards for his books.
In my opinion this is a great book and after reading it you just feel good.
Gaarder shows in his book "The Orange Girl" that every live is like a fairytale.

An enthralling story about love, life, and the universe.......2006-12-14

Jostein Gaarder is a masterful storyteller. One of his trademarks is telling a story within a story, and doing so in a winding, and enthralling way. This book is no exception. My attentionw as caught from page one, and I finished reading the book within three days (a rare feat amidts final papers and exams). It's a short and wonderful read. Of course like Gaarders other books its also very thought provoking. Pick it up!

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Coming Out
Great introduction to Winterson
An Unwritten Story
"History is a string full of knots"
Her beginnings....

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
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Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama awarded a BAFTA for best drama and an RTS award in the same year; the Prix Italia; FIPA D’Argent at Cannes for best script; The Golden Gate in San Francisco and an ACE Award at the Los Angeles television festival.

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Coming Out.......2007-05-10

A girl faces the problem of coming out to her conservative family, along with their reactions to her less-than-traditional sexuality.

Great introduction to Winterson.......2007-03-16

This is not "Well of Loneliness" (Radcliffe Hall) and for that we can all be grateful.

An Unwritten Story.......2006-08-08

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit courageously tackles a topic not addressed often enough in real literature; the struggle between one's family and self as sexuality develops contrary to "normal" expectations. Jeanette Winterson deftly paints the story of a young girl's travails as she comes out to her devoutly evangelical mother with humor and pathos. The characters are all too real, especially to anyone with a background in deeply Christian communities.

Winterson is an adept enough storyteller, however, her narration leaves something to be desired. The fairytales interspersed with the main storyline are interesting and add a magical, childlike touch to the story, but aren't fully integrated into the novel. As a result, they distract from the book rather than further developing it. This novel is a good first effort and a worthwhile read, but not quite a literary marvel.

"History is a string full of knots".......2006-07-25

In her debut novel, first published in 1985, Jeanette Winterson managed to achieve two important goals: one, to impress the reader with her autobiographical story, and two, to create her own style and voice, which she developed in her later works.

At the level of the narrative, the reader is completely taken in by the life of an orphan girl raised in England of the 1960's by the strictly religious mother to be a preacher and a missionary. The world outside the church community, which, despite the presence of pastors, has a strong matriarchal feeling, and the men seems somehow obscure and dispensable, is for little Jeanette absolutely incomprehensible.

As a child, she does not have a reason not to believe her mother... but growing up as an intelligent child with inquisitive mind, she begins to ask questions. First quietly, only in her mind, then more openly, when she encounters other reality (at school and in her town), and finally, confronted with her own sexuality which is unacceptable by (although, as it appears, not unknown to) her church, she decides to step out of her life as she knows it, go beyond her very limited experience and start afresh (very brave; I could not help thinking though that her being lesbian seemed to be an obstacle but in a way was helpful because it was the real push to struggle for her own identity; for a girl who would marry it would be probably less difficult to settle down quietly and stop asking questions, like it was for Melanie, Jeanette's first love in the novel). The oranges from the title become the symbol of the forced limitations...
The book is full of general thoughts, and although there is no great philosophy, the discoveries of adolescence are put into great words. Winterson's voice sometimes sound incredibly bitter and she paints the characters with certain cruelty. Although the book if full of funny anecdotes, it is a sad kind of humor, I hope this was a catharsis to write it. The author admits that we create our own history and memories are what we remember and shape ourselves, therefore far from objective report of the past...

Formally, the novel is divided into chapters bearing the titles of the initial books of the Old Testament. There are also many religious metaphors and similes throughout. Winterson uses simple, short sentences which gives the book the clarity. Interchanging with the main plot are short tales, which remind me of things I imagined and put on paper when I was a child... They are a great insight into the mind, fears and fantasies of a sensitive girl and look very real, although are obviously conceived at the same time as the whole novel (although it would be nice to think that Winterson incorporated her real childhood creations) as they run in parallel with the plot and are inseparable from it.

I think that for anyone who wants to become familiar with Winterson's prose, this is the best place to start.

Her beginnings...........2006-05-18

You can see the author finding her voice in this one. It's jumpy with moments of sparking fire that characterize her later works. She dips a toe into the magic realism and fairy tale, and seeing these tentative steps should give all writers faith that they should pursue their weirdest ideas, mediated by the story.

I recommend reading this not first but after you've seen her at her best, as in The Passion.

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Tremendous book
Orangemen had difficult Irish childhoods too!
Tries hard.....can and will do better
Dark, twisted, and funny.

Orange Rhymes With Everything
Adrian McKinty
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For his first novel, author Adrian McKinty has chosen Northern Ireland's age-old conflict between Protestant and Catholic as his stage and peopled it with two unnamed narrators, a violent Protestant paramilitary man and his hunchbacked teenage daughter. The story opens with the man breaking out of a New York mental hospital and proceeds on a violent, bloody path back to Ireland. Alternating with this killer's progress are chapters describing his daughter's daily life in working-class Ulster.

Mr. McKinty writes close to the bone, taking the reader right inside his characters' heads so that each thought, each action, resonates in the mind almost as if it had been the reader's own. Given the harrowing lives these characters lead and the graphic depictions of violence throughout the book, Orange Rhymes with Everything can prove a disturbing read.

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Tremendous book.......2006-02-13

This is a fully realized literary statement of nihilism, a foreboding read in the best noirish tradition. Yet throughout there's a pervasive sense of unity of all things. Dismissing this as a first novel is a mistake; it is deficient in neither theme or quality of prose. I applaud the author's vision and his commitment to style, something almost completely missing from today's bestsellers. This book is disturbing on many levels and I will be thinking about it for weeks to come. I find that so many authors write two excellent books and then descend to some comfortable formula. In this book McKinty's is an original voice that I emphatically hope he maintains. Now on to the rest of his work...

Orangemen had difficult Irish childhoods too!.......2001-01-06

At first I thought this was an *Angela's Ashes* clone, beginning as it did with a grim Irish childhood. But no. Adrian McKinty speaks with an Irish voice, to be sure, but it is his own voice. Like Joyce Carol Oates, he refrains from using quotes in his dialogue, to good advantage. The device brings his characters closer. After some confusion about who is talking when and where, the reader adjusts, understands and gets with the flow. It's "wee" for "little," "arse" for "ass" and sentence construction contains somewhat of the brogue, "Black and voracious are the lines between us" says he. Toward the end it all pulls together philosophically.

"This whole society was sick. He could see that now. Sick and indifferent to it all. They had their hard wee God; white and dour and manifest. Their country crawling with believers. The homogeneity of it was crippling." And later,

"Couldn't they see? How could they? With their pariah eyes and the schizophrenic noose of their allegiance. Split between loving England and hating it. Booing the English at football games and mourning when their soldiers died. These people who didn't even know if they wanted to be called Irish or not. Stateless. Orphans of history with only their mad religion to give them any identity at all."

I don't enjoy violence in novels or movies, but this is not gratuitous violence. The author is telling it like it is. My only problem is with the female protagonist. She's not convincingly female - not because she's precocious and perceptive, not because of the nose-picking or scatological references. It's a "je ne sais quoi". I hear a young boy talking - not a young girl. McKinty's other female characters are believable enough, but then, they are all in the background.

This is, in my opinion, a stunning first novel with a great deal of promise. I will be looking forward to future contributions by Adrian McKinty.

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Tries hard.....can and will do better.......1997-07-30

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Dark, twisted, and funny........1997-04-16

This is a surreal, and compelling novel about among other things - redemption through violence. Like the Amazon reviewer I found it a little disturbing but no more so than Cormac McCarthy or J G Ballard. The humor is dry and the tone is one of obvious irony. There are passages of great lyricism and beauty but lovers of Irish fiction beware: Maeve Binchy it isn't

Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales

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Have Another Orange Candy Slice!
Exploring and Celebrating a Different Way of Life
crackles with wit
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Magical, Strange, Everyday Reality

Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales
Viola Canales
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Early in Canales' collection, the young narrator gives her beloved grandmother the perfect Christmas present; she gives her the gift of the world. Through her descriptions, we see that world as she sees it, through the eyes of a child that is slowly moving into adolescence. In this twilight world, the author offers a shimmering picture of a family confronted with the issues that divide lives and love.

In this collection of coming of age stories, Canales introduces the reader to the cultural traditions and activities of a community: homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the celebration of the day of the Three Magi, a carousel of unique saints, and a flock of very special pink plastic flamingoes. And through it all, with the passage of time the narrator discovers changes within herself and the community around her.

Canales' robust tales inhabit the mysterious and secret land that lies between the United States and Mexico, between child and adulthood, reality and imagination, and between life and death. These haunting stories not only reveal, layer by layer, the fantastic in the ordinary, but, most importantly, the powerful and healing magic inside all of us. Long after the tales are finished, the reader will be left with the taste of orange candy slices.

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Have Another Orange Candy Slice!.......2004-03-08

Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales is a collection of short vinettes gathered from the innocent and selective viewpoint of a child. It is an exploration of events, folklore and idiosyncracies of the border town hispanic culture. One of the tales, for example, reveals the belief in a curandera with an egg who takes an "evil eye curse" away from a girl. Another explores the miraculous healings and miricles of the Vigin. Each story is interesting in its own right. Together, they make up a patchwork quilt of the culture. Viola Canales is an inspiration for others to keep their heritage by writing. I highly recommend this book for teenagers to adults.

Exploring and Celebrating a Different Way of Life.......2002-02-12

What a great book! It paints Hispanic life in the Rio Grande Valley from the viewpoint of a child. What would ordinarily appear strange to an outsider becomes natural and mystical through the narrator's eyes. This doubleness of vision makes the stories remarkable indeed. They led me into a culture very different from my own--one where everyday life is governed by different rhythms and different values. Family and community anchor all. And in the simple rituals of food and of death, joy and reaffirmation of life is found.

crackles with wit.......2002-02-02

These stories crackle with wit. Written cleanly, with no excess verbiage, this book grabbed me and led me to a place I'd like to know. The skill of the author impresses me, suggesting as it does an intelligent perspective on spirituality, America, individuality, and social alienation. The flavor of a Texas I have not seen stirred my curiosity, while references to the Virgin Mary resonated with my own sense of wonder. As a worthwhile distraction from life's little blisters, I have already recommended these stories to friends.

Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales.......2001-12-08

A superb collection of short stories that capture the essence of the Hispanic culture. The author does an exceptional job in bringing these traditions to all your senses. One can taste the bread in The Panaderia, feel the prickly thorns in Nopalitos, see the vibrant colored houses in The Bubble Gum Pink House, smell the aroma of cafe de olla in The Carousel and hear the girl's dancing feet in The Polka Dot Dress. I can't wait for her next book!

Magical, Strange, Everyday Reality.......2001-12-02

I really enjoyed Orange Candy Slices. The stories all take place in what was an exotic location to me -- the Rio Grande Valley of Texas -- but they have that rare blend of acute detail that makes you feel you know a faraway place and universal appeal. For example, "The Tiny Bubble," about a girl finding out about puberty, combines the mysticism of a very different culture with details from the movies our elementary school showed us in fifth grade. Perhaps my favorite stories are "The Flamingoes," "The Magi," and "The Cafe" because of the way they show the relationship between the narrators and their grandparents. They remind us of how magical the everyday relationship between grandparents and grandchildren can be. If you've had that sort of bond, these stories will make you remember episodes of your own; if you haven't, they'll teach you something wonderful and new.

Little Miss Sunshine or The Old Bachelors Ward By MAY HOLLIS BARTON, With RARE COLOR DustJacket of Girl in Orange Dress White Belt at Gate of Picket White Fence Series #6, Barton Books for Girls,

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Magenta Orange: The Trials of a Teenage Temptress (Bite S.)

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Magenta Orange: The Trials of a Teenage Temptress (Bite S.)
Echo Freer
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Magenta Orange is bright, sassy, and massively accident-prone. Her neighbor—and nearest thing to a best friend a boy can be—Daniel, tries hard to dissuade her from some of her more impulsive actions, but it's a tough job.

Mistress Nell; or, Restoration divertimento;: Being a story based on the life and adventures of one Eleanor Gwyn, server of strong waters, orange girl, actress, lady of pleasure and royal mistress

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Mistress Nell; or, Restoration divertimento;: Being a story based on the life and adventures of one Eleanor Gwyn, server of strong waters, orange girl, actress, lady of pleasure and royal mistress
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Murder of a Little Girl
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Orange Girl
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