But the way she reaches this realization is never interesting or unexpected - it’s like, My cute guitarist boyfriend was angry at me for not calling for two weeks. The point of the book is that Hannah, the protagonist, gradually realizes that she can’t continue doing ballet because it’s too soul-crushing. All through Bunheads I kept thinking that I couldn’t believe I had spent so many library visits feeling weird and guilty as I browsed the YA shelves looking for this book - for this book. I would say - I hope that The Miseducation of Cameron Post is better. She sees other girls in the corps starving themselves and working out constantly to keep their bodies in perfect shape for the ballet. The cute musician on whom she is significantly crushing feels that she never has time for him, and she cannot deny the justice of this position. She has been in the corps for a while now and is hoping to be promoted, but even as her career at the school has its ups and downs, she has begun to wonder whether it’s worth it. You should go read it twice.)īunheads is a book about a girl called Hannah in the Manhattan Ballet School. (Y’all, Thursday’s Children is crazy good.
I read a glowing review of the latter on NPR, and the former I want because early exposure to Rumer Godden made me think that all books set in ballet schools are necessarily awesome. So there are two books I’ve been trying to get at the library for a very long time without acknowledging to the world how much I wanted them because I feel guilty checking out kids’ books from my library because I always think of all the actual kids in the world who are being deprived of their books by my greed: Bunheads (this one here) and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, for which I am still waiting and which may never, ever, ever get in at the library ever.
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