Book Review #6 ~ Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom

 

Now this is an example of a really really modern book. Not to mention an example of a really really good one.

So this book is about a girl named Violet living with her little sister, Rosie, and her single mother, Ingrid. This is how Ingrid became single. See, Violet's father is a director for movies and stuff. So Ingrid decided to go and surprise her father by visiting him at the studio. So Ingrid takes 9 year old Violet and 2 year old Rosie to go see their father. They ask around for him, and no one knows where he is. So they go and knock on the door of his trailer, and there is no answer. They were still standing there when another trailer door opened nearby and  a woman with long blonde hair and tons of make-up stepped out. Followed by Violet's father, buckling his belt. 

You know that expression, "the colour drained from his face"? That's what happened to Ian, Violet's dad, when he spotted them.
You can kind of guess the rest.
Now Violet is 12, and Rosie is 5.
Her mother is now desperate to find a replacement for Violet's father and starts to date all kinds of guys that are clearly not acceptable, from alcoholics to men who steal things from Violet's mother while they're on their date.
Then one day, her mother meets a man named Dudley Wiener. Yes. It's an unfortunate name. And by this time, Violet has had it, so she tries to set her mom up with George Clooney, her mother's favourite actor. Violet actually has hope for it, because her mother used to work as a hairstylist at a studio that George Clooney was shooting at. She did his hair, and he must've liked her, because he gave her an autographed photo of him that said, 'May our paths cross again.' So she sends a letter to him. But, to her dismay, the letter was left unanswered.
Later, Violet and Rosie go to visit their father, but the real reason Violet is going is to meet George Clooney, because her father lives in L.A. Her father happens to be directing a movie at the same studio as George Clooney. So she plans to follow him along to the studios, find George Clooney, and talk to him about marrying her mother.
As it turns out, she is not allowed to go to the lot where George is shooting, so she steals a golf cart, manages to drive it close to the lot, but crashes into George's car, get's a nasty roadburn, a twisted ankle, and almost a concussion. (ouch that's a lot of boo-boos) She thinks that she spoke to George Clooney, but everyone tells her that he had been shooting the whole time, and that she must've been hallucinating. But later, when she gets back home to Vancouver (!) (My hometown!), she recieved an autographed photo of George Clooney that said, 'To Violet. A better daughter than she is a driver.'
Those were the last words of the book.
So that kind of tells me that she did actually talk to George Clooney. Lucky.
Well, that's my book review! I hope you liked it, and I hope you will read it! It was hard for me to pry my eyes off the page when I read it, so I think you will feel the same!
Thank you for reading!
See you next time!