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Like Mandarin

Tekijä: Kirsten Hubbard

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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:

It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give anything to be like Mandarin. When they're united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, liberating the town's animal-head trophies, and searching for someplace magic. Grace plays along when Mandarin suggests they run away together. Blame it on the crazy-making wildwinds plaguing their Badlands town. Because all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin's unique beauty hides a girl who's troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand betrayal.

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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 15) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
Every small town has a girl like Mandarin Ramey, wild, mysterious, and always labeled the town slut. Grace Carpenter is mesmerized by her from the time Mandarin witnesses Grace's big show at the Little Miss Washokey pageant at the age of six. When Grace is asked to tutor Mandarin and help her find a community project, she learns that Mandarin is not as free-spirited as she seems. Even in small towns, everyone has their secrets. ( )
  Dairyqueen84 | Mar 15, 2022 |
Gritty and a quick read. More of a review soon. ( )
  Bookaliciouspam | Sep 20, 2013 |
Grace Carpenter has lived in the same small town her entire life. Her mother forced her into pageants when she was younger but Grace sabotaged her way out of them. Now a sophomore (after skipping a grade), Grace has a few interests (collecting rocks, plotting how she might get out of her tiny town) but she spends a great deal of time stalking being mildly obsessed with Mandarin Ramey. Mandarin, a senior, is rather mysterious. She is known around town for her...loose moral character. Grace finally gets her chance to get to know Mandarin when she begins to tutor her. (If you can call it tutoring, because there really wasn’t much tutoring going on.) The two of them cause trouble around town and Grace learns what it is like to have a reputation. At the same time, Grace feels alienated from her mother. Grace’s father has been out of the picture since her birth and she feels like she lost her mother’s love when she left pageants. Now that Grace’s younger sister Taffeta (no joke) has taken up the pageant rein, Grace feels forgotten.

Okay, enough about the plot. I found the writing to be rather heavy on the description but I didn’t mind. I read this book in a day—and I wanted to finish it, which is more than I can say about a lot of books I’ve been reading lately. I wanted to find out if either Grace or Mandarin came to some life-altering realization about life. I guess they do. I was more satisfied with Grace’s ending than Mandarin’s but I will NOT spoiler the ending for you. Throughout the story, I was more fascinated with Mandarin than with Grace. This book suffers from Secondary Character Syndrome—when the side characters are more interesting than the protagonist. [a:John Green|1406384|John Green|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1353452301p2/1406384.jpg] seems to want his books to have this affliction. (Tiny Cooper, Alaska, Margo Margo Roth Spiegelman) Anyway, I wanted to know more about what made Mandarin the way she is. Her story seemed like it was begging to be told but he could only grasp onto small bits of it through Grace’s perspective. It was frustrating.

There are several aspects of this book that just didn’t do it for me. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s read so I’m going to put them into a spoiler. Read at your own risk:

I really didn’t feel Grace’s alienation from her mother.
Why didn’t anyone in the town try to help Mandarin if all these men were sleeping with her? Especially when all she had was her father and he didn’t care. It seemed like it had been going on for a while.
I thought Davey was a rather ridiculous character. I’m a little embarrassed to say that I thought he was mentally other-abled for a large portion of the book. What was the point of his presence in the book? I was kind of hoping he would be proof that nice guys did exist in Washokey but that one never really crossed the finish line.


I find it rather amusing that I read [b:Unearthly|7488244|Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)|Cynthia Hand|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1324782984s/7488244.jpg|9621771] last week and remarked on how few books are set in Wyoming. What are the chances that I'd read another in the same week? [b:Like Mandarin|8574517|Like Mandarin|Kirsten Hubbard|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320523816s/8574517.jpg|7168439] is set in Washokey, a fictional town that seems to be located in the Northeast corner of the state. (Just about every town in Wyoming gets a mention but I couldn't pin it down) [a:Kirsten Hubbard|3101315|Kirsten Hubbard|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1258593342p2/3101315.jpg] describes the town, environs, and weather in such a way that I could absolutely picture it all in my imagination. Then again, I've been through that area of Wyoming several times and I think seeing some of those tiny towns in the middle of nowhere really helps form the picture in my mind. Even if this book wasn't my favorite, I'd really enjoy reading more books set in this town from the author.

Overall, though, I just didn’t find Grace’s story engaging. However, it seems like many other Goodreaders did so it might be a case of wrong book, wrong time.
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  FlanneryAC | Mar 31, 2013 |
Grace Carpenter doesn't find beauty in the Femme Fatale cosmetics her mother sells for a living, she doesn't see it in the pageants her mother enters Grace's six-year-old Taffeta in, either, The only beauty fourteen-year-old Grace really sees in windblown Washokey, Wyoming is Mandarin Ramsey.

Seventeen-year-old, Mandarin is Washokey's wild-child - and their favorite source of gossip, as well. Grace doesn't care about all the talk of Mandarin and 'her men' or the other things people say about her, she just knows that Mandarin fascinates her. What Grace wouldn't give to be like Mandarin.

But brilliant Grace, who's been moved up from ninth to tenth grade and Mandarin, a senior who's out of class almost as often as she's in it, have rarely crossed paths before. Until, that is, they're paired up for a project. Soon, Grace and Mandarin begin what might just be a friendship - and Grace is learning more than she ever thought she would about Mandarin Ramsey.

The relationship between Grace and Mandarin in Like Mandarin is unlike one I've read before. Both characters are so incredibly unique - from Grace's pageant past (and less than graceful exit) to her love of rocks and Mandarin's complexities that really come out as the story develops. At first it seems like something very one sided, that Grace really is just fascinated with this much talked about, interesting, older girl. The, though, as the two interact, we get to see how these two, so seemingly different individuals, form a friendship.

I love the way Grace's relationship with her mother and with her sister also grows and develops alongside the events involving her and Mandarin.

As with Wanderlove (which came out second but I read first), Hubbard has an incredible talent for writing settings. Like Mandarin is set in the badlands of Wyoming which might sound less appealing (to some) than Central America (where Wanderlove is) but it comes across no less beautiful and breathtaking.

I'm also starting to think she has an extreme talent for naming characters, first Bria Sandoval and Starling in Wanderlove and now I read this with Mandarin, the appealing, exotic seeming girl and Taffeta, the younger daughter that the mother has all her beauty queen dreams pinned on. Perfect character names! ( )
  BookSpot | Mar 25, 2012 |
Hubbard, K. (2011). Like Mandarin. New York: Random House/Delacorte. 389 pp. ISBN: 978-0-385-73935-1. (Hardcover); $17.99.*

Grace Carpenter is dragged along to beauty pageant after beauty pageant by her mother. She fails miserably as a contestant because she cares more about writing and school than she does about the contests that are far too political and contrived. She has skipped a grade and is not one to seek the limelight. Now she travels to contests with her mom and her younger sister, the new beauty pageant contestant. When Grace does not win an essay contest that will whisk her with the wind to Washington, she fears that she will end up just like her Momma, stuck forever in Washokey, forever scheming to find a different course. When she is paired on a project with Mandarin, the town’s wild child, Grace is both attracted and repelled. Mandarin offers her friendship and the status of being with the most talked about student in the school. It is difficult for Grace to make friends; this offer is huge. Grace is shy. Mandarin does what she pleases when she pleases. She knows all of the rumors about herself and does not seem to care, although she loves getting even by pulling anonymous pranks on the town. Like Grace, she yearns to escape Washokey, but first she must decide what she wants to do about high school. Grace is smart enough and pliable enough for Mandarin to use as a graduation ticket, or so she thinks. Mandarin convinces Grace to bolt from Washokey for the sunny shores of California. They make a plan to leave just before Grace’s trip to Washington, which, it turns out, she did win, when it is discovered that Peter Shaw plagiarized his winning essay. With each prank and each adventure that Mandarin swirls them into, Grace becomes increasingly nervous about their plans. She admires Mandarin’s bold, assertive nature and wild beauty but she begins to detect some serious character flaws stemming from her neglectful, drunken, dysfunctional family. Will the lure of having a larger than life whirlwind friend blow Grace off course? Like any good wind, like the Santa Anas in California or the Mistrals in France, they may not be able to blow a rock completely off course, but they are very likely to alter it—and sometimes that is for the best. This is a finely crafted, poetic first novel that deserves to be in every high school library.
  edspicer | Dec 12, 2011 |
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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:

It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give anything to be like Mandarin. When they're united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, liberating the town's animal-head trophies, and searching for someplace magic. Grace plays along when Mandarin suggests they run away together. Blame it on the crazy-making wildwinds plaguing their Badlands town. Because all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin's unique beauty hides a girl who's troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand betrayal.

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