“This is a best friend in book form.”–Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends Are Superheroes Today, Carrie Hope Fletcher is living her dream as an actress and YouTube star. But not long ago, she was trying to survive the many perils of the Teen Age . . .
The Rumor Mill: The more a rumor is spread, the farther it gets from the truth. It’s like a giant taffy pull.
The Disgusting Business of … It’s like a giant taffy pull.
Thankfully, she made it through! And although memories of her struggles, woes, and foibles stick around (as Soul Shrapnel, if you will), they look a little different today, thanks to The Amazing Goggles of Hindsight.
So, in All I Know Now, Carrie shares, well, exactly that–heartfelt advice and hopeful thoughts on growing up. She just did it herself. She has the stuffed animals to prove it!
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So you are probably getting the feeling I love everything by the Fletcher Family, not always true. But pretty true. So the first I heard of Carrie’s book was on Tom and Gi’s vlogs, and it got me interested in it, I also have just begun to watch Carrie’s vlogs too, so to read this book I loved it, although it wasn’t the normal book I read. It wasn’t fiction, I’d say probably Non-Fiction more than anything.
Carrie’s personality shines through even by her words, every word, sentence, paragraph, it is the bubbly personality of Carrie that we know, well if you watch her vlogs then you know. It made me smile all the way through reading this book I could also imagine Carrie sitting there writing it whenever she had the chance too. So yes that made me fall in love with Carrie and her book immediately, that was just within the first few pages of her book.
Her book was set out into chapters and then little sub titles with a topic which was easy to read, and some of her stories that she presented in the book where so relatable I guess it is true what they say about most teenagers really do experience the same thing when it comes to things like bullying or their experiences with their boyfriends and doing things sexual and then situations with friends. Also a big one about this is finding yourself, and not accepting to be anyone from yourself. So I think I’ll talk about the topic of yourself from the book.
Being yourself is one thing many people have struggled with growing up, I definitely struggled with that when I was younger. I went to what people would call a bad high school and I had a few friends from Primary school but we had very rocky relationships during primary and definitely Secondary school. I spent half of year 7 at home because I was being bullied that much, although Carrie’s circumstances were different bullying is all the same. So it’s nice to know that people do go through the same thing as you even though you are very alone when you are going through it. You against the world, so her book is a very nice example of that people aren’t in fact alone and that there is other people who have been through the same thing to. So when you have been bullied you begin to think that there is something wrong you with you and that you are the problem and not them. Carrie does state this in her book too, that they do it just to hide the flaws that they have. So after being bullied you have to find yourself and working out who you are isn’t easy at that age. So learning to be yourself is very hard but once you know who you are it’s hard to pretend to be anyone but yourself.
Anyway that is my little ramble for this book, I want to say so much more but I think I will just spoil it for people so go read it!!!!