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YA Review: Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood

5/2/2012

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Six Impossible Things
Author: Fiona Wood
Publication Date: 8/1/10
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
[Goodreads | Fishpond]

Blurb: Fourteen year old nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a reversal of family fortune, moving house, new school hell, a mother with a failing wedding cake business, a just-out gay dad, and an impossible crush on Estelle, the girl next door. His life is a mess, but for now he's narrowed it down to just six impossible things... 


Review:

Sometimes I like to think of my adventures in reading as an episode of MTV’s old show, Singled Out. Sure, that dates me as a human being but hear me out. I’m standing at the end of an extremely long pathway and all the books that have ever been written are at the beginning. Slowly, I start weeding them out. “Westerns, take a hike!”, I say to start things off. (or maybe some sort of awkward cowboyish saying would be more apt as I don’t know too many cowboys into hiking) “Self-help, I know you want to be my friend and solve my problems but you’re just too needy for me. Sorry!” As I start to really get into the task, the process goes much quicker. “Picture books, war memoirs, religious fiction and nonfiction, culinary mysteries, you don’t strike my fancy.” Oh my gosh, what am I going to do? There are still millions of books here.  I need to think of things I do want in a potential book partner. Okay, I’m looking for a young adult book. Huzzah! I just cut down over half of those freaking books. Alright, well I’ve been really into male-narrated YA so how about that as a criterion? Yes, now we’re talking. And Australian! Oh geez, now we’re down to about 50. Funny. Divorced parents, one of whom is gay. Baking. Old house filled with antiques and a secret attic. Reading diaries. A crush on the girl next door. Light-hearted tone, wacky side characters, and a bit of self-examination. Ah, Six Impossible Things, there you are. You were the perfect book at the perfect moment for me.

4.5/5 stars

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9 Comments
Maggie, Young Adult Anonymous link
5/2/2012 09:23:52 am

*Carrying you like you're Carmen Electra and I'm Jenny McCarthy.* Loved this book!

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
5/2/2012 09:46:51 am

Me too, Mags:) But I'm the blonde one, shouldn't I get to be Jenny McCarthy?

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VeganYANerds link
5/2/2012 10:11:59 am

I haven't heard of this show but I love the idea of weeding through books to find the perfect one. I really enjoyed Six Impossible Things, it was a very sweet story :)

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
5/3/2012 05:31:58 pm

They didn't show Singled Out down there? (just kidding, why the heck would they?) In retrospect, it was a somewhat ridiculous show because so many of the qualities people got kicked out of the running for were random physical traits.

This IS such a sweet story. I loved Dan.

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Maja link
5/2/2012 03:41:46 pm

I bet you totally hesitated when you reached celebrity non-fiction, and then you hid one under your t-shirt when no one was looking.

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
5/3/2012 05:32:59 pm

A part of me wants to say that I have no interest whatsoever in celebrity gossip...but I can't lie, I have a bookmark for the Daily Mail and I peruse it almost daily. *hangs head in shame*

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Chachic link
5/2/2012 11:06:41 pm

Love this review, Flann! Even if I'm not familiar with that MTV show. It really is hard to find a book that perfectly matches your mood so it's always nice when it happens. I had a lot of fun reading Six Impossible Things too.

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
5/3/2012 05:33:36 pm

If only it happened more often!

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Liana
5/2/2012 11:43:23 pm

Singled out. LOL

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