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October 15, 2008
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 | Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot | Reviewed by R-Laurraine Tutihasi |  | Publisher: William Morrow/HarperCollins
http://www.harpercollins.com
ISBN: 0060851988
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Humour
Release date: May 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Price: $21.95 | This is the funniest book I've read in years. It's not just funny for the sake of being so, though. It shows extraordinary insight into the modern American mind. Geared mostly for the enjoyment of the female of the species, the book can be enjoyed by any woman who has been a teenager. I'm not sure how people who are still teenagers will react. They may be too close to the forest to see some of the humour. It hits pretty close to home. The reader will be reminded that she had to kiss a lot of frogs before she found her prince.
The book is also a love story, though not what I'd call a romance.
The title derives from the fact that her friends think Lizzie talks too much and cannot be trusted to keep secrets. In fact Lizzie's problem is that she is too honest and trusting. She will blurt out what she really thinks without thinking of the consequences. I can certainly identify with this. She can keep secrets when it's important. She is a college senior and follows her boyfriend to England only to discover that he's very different from what she had thought he was. So she flees to Europe, having been invited to stay in a chateau with her best friend. There she meets with some extremely interesting people and ends up learning a lot about herself.
It is written in first person from Lizzie's point of view. Each chapter begins with an excerpt from her senior thesis, which I found very interesting. Her major is the history of fashion, a topic that also interests me. The book is extremely well-written and highly entertaining. | | |
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