Official Review: Andi Makes a Wish! by Meg Kimball

[bookowlie]

What up with JK Rawlings announcing all of this stuff? Is she upset that her books are slowly fading into oblivion? And I just realized... did she plan on putting Harry and Hermione together because Ron was killed off (in her pretend version), and therefore "out of the way?" Ewwwww. That's horrible!!

HA HA, BookOwlie, do you really hate Hilary, Dr. Greene's wife?? I shudder at what direction you'd take my characters in if given free rein!!

(Although it tickles me.)

I don't like Hilary because I think she's been a bad parent. There are always favorite and not-so favorite characters in books. I do like that she is a well-developed character!

-- 13 Jun 2015, 15:25 --

More Advice Avengers--YAY!!! I am sooo reading this book!!! Thanks for this awesome review

Thanks! I remember your wonderful review of the previous book Forever Twelve!

[zeldas_lullaby]

More Advice Avengers--YAY!!! I am sooo reading this book!!! Thanks for this awesome review

Yay! I would be thrilled for you to read this! I still appreciate your great review from... how long ago was it?

I don't like Hilary because I think she's been a bad parent. There are always favorite and not-so favorite characters in books. I do like that she is a well-developed character!

Good point! No Mother of the Year, she.

[bookowlie]

It just bothered me that Andi has bad childhood memories of her mother's drinking and verbal abuse. We need Andi's dad to get closer with either Mrs. Lawrence or the funny guidance counselor. Hilary can always rob the cradle and date Christian.

[zeldas_lullaby]

It just bothered me that Andi has bad childhood memories of her mother's drinking and verbal abuse. We need Andi's dad to get closer with either Mrs. Lawrence or the funny guidance counselor. Hilary can always rob the cradle and date Christian.

Well.... SPOILERS!!! OK, here's the problem. I have Mrs. Lawrence enter into a liaison in number 6 with her coworker Jared Oberlisk, hunky kindergarten teacher at the Academy. HA HA. And as I told you, Christian is ALL MINE. Fictional though he may be, I want him all to myself!! BUT... those are good ideas. I can't get Mrs. Lawrence with Dr. Greene, but I could get Dr. Greene with Dr. Ziegler, the kindly, eccentric school guidance counselor. However, since Dr. Ziegler is treating Hilary for PTSD with EMDR therapy, wouldn't that be kind of cold, to steal her husband...? And unethical. You crack me up, BookOwlie.

[bookowlie]

Remember, it's Mr. Bookowlie - ha ha ha

I agree with you that it would be unethical for Dr. Zeigler to get involved with Hilary's husband. We need someone for Hilary to fall in love with so she can get out of the picture.

[zeldas_lullaby]

HA HA HA!!

Now, see here, "Mr. BookOwlie."

Seriously, I'm cooking up #8 in my head today, and I think that you may be pleasantly surprised by the direction it takes.

[bookowlie]

I am wondering where you got the inspiration for the SME meditation school. It reminded me of things that have come out about Scientology in the media.

[zeldas_lullaby]

I am wondering where you got the inspiration for the SME meditation school. It reminded me of things that have come out about Scientology in the media.

Huh. You know, I actually have no experience with Scientology. Beyond being able to name Tom Cruise as a member, I know little about it. I have had personal experiences with cults. Not the horrible kind where you live with them and are brainwashed 24/7, but the kind that fly under the radar while still doing damage.

There has been enough weirdness in my life to write a gazillion novels!!

[bookowlie]

Interesting post, particularly about the cult-like groups that fly under the radar.
I just remember a lot of stuff came out in the media about Scientology during Tom Cruise's divorces. Nicole Kidman was labelled as a "word I can't remember" by Scientologists once she left the "church" and her children were brainwashed into having hardly any contact with her for many years.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Apostate? Was that the word?

[bookowlie]

Apostate? Was that the word?

No, it was something like "disconnect" or a different word. Anyway, the passages in Andi Makes a Wish where the meditation teacher describes the levels reminded me of things that have come out about Scientology.

[zeldas_lullaby]

Apostate? Was that the word?

No, it was something like "disconnect" or a different word. Anyway, the passages in Andi Makes a Wish where the meditation teacher describes the levels reminded me of things that have come out about Scientology.

Well, that's cool, then my book's up with the times! I should research what's come out about Scientology.

[bookowlie]

By including a unique meditation group in the story, I guess you became accidentally trendy.

[zeldas_lullaby]

HA HA HA... awesome. I tried to research Scientology last night, and the info out there is so confusing.

"They're a cult!"

"We're not a cult."

"They're a cult!"

"We're not a cult."

Just so weird. Maybe it was too late at night for it to make sense. I can PM anyone who's interested in which group inspired this book about Andi. The funny thing is that its members have some books on Good Reads that are downright bad books... anyways, they'd never come after me if they knew about this book (about Andi), because they don't believe in retaliation... or something.

Anyway, if you want to read a book about a teen caught up in a low-grade cult, you might enjoy this book that BookOwlie reviewed here.

[bookowlie]

HA HA HA... awesome. I tried to research Scientology last night, and the info out there is so confusing.

"They're a cult!"

"We're not a cult."

"They're a cult!"

"We're not a cult."

Just so weird. Maybe it was too late at night for it to make sense. I can PM anyone who's interested in which group inspired this book about Andi. The funny thing is that its members have some books on Good Reads that are downright bad books... anyways, they'd never come after me if they knew about this book (about Andi), because they don't believe in retaliation... or something.

Anyway, if you want to read a book about a teen caught up in a low-grade cult, you might enjoy this book that BookOwlie reviewed here.

Sounds like the drunk in a bar that says, "I'm not drunk!"