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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl
I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl | Gretchen McNeil
From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romanceperfect for fans of Kody Keplingers The Duff and Morgan Matsons Since You've Been Gone. Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class, shes a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and shes got a new boyfriend shes crazy about. The only problem: All through high school Bea and her best friends Spencer and Gabe have been the targets of horrific bullying. So Bea uses her math skills to come up with The Formula, a 100% mathematically guaranteed path to social happiness in high school. Now Gabe is on his way to becoming Student Body President, and Spencer is finally getting his art noticed. But when her boyfriend Jesse dumps her for Toile, the quirky new girl at school, Bea realizes it's time to use The Formula for herself. She'll be reinvented as the eccentric and lovable Trixiea quintessential manic pixie dream girlin order to win Jesse back and beat new-girl Toile at her own game. Unfortunately, being a manic pixie dream girl isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Trixie is causing unexpected consequences for her friends. As The Formula begins to break down, can Bea find a way to reclaim her true identity and fix everything she's messed up? Or will the casualties of her manic pixie experiment go far deeper than she could possibly imagine?
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lilylexicon
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Day 22: A fun fact about you #juneinbooks18
Much like Beatrice, I‘m a huge math nerd. I‘m on a math team and it sounds dorky but it‘s actually lots of fun!
#math #aesthetic #pink #black #white #manicpixiedreamgirl #teen #ya

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Naz786
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It was a light enjoyable read I must say.

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PictureandBook
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Mehso-so

TLDR: girl and her two male best friends hatch plan to escape bullies.

Good:
Poc main character
Strong smart female character

Bad
Fairly derivative

Like every teen movie everywhere...and the characters just did not appeal to me. #ya #yalit #romance #romanticcomedy #humor

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Purrfectpages
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I haven't read this one, but it's the best I could do for #manicmonday #awesomeautumnbooks

Jess7 I like this cover! It definitely draws you in! 7y
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KatieLMae
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3/5⭐️

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Read.Em.And.Eat
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This book was absolutely freaking adorable. And hopefully enough to break my reading slump. It was also the first book that I used the Bookout app on! Love the infographic they give you at the end!

Bindrosbookshelf My fave part of the app is when it tells you how many consecutive days you have read - i try to beat my record each time 🙄📚🙈 7y
Joanne1 Sounds perfect to break a slump. 7y
Read.Em.And.Eat @jadedeverafter that is a wonderful feature isn't it?! I wasn't sure I needed another reading app. I was wrong lol 7y
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Read.Em.And.Eat
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Tonight boyfriend decided to join me in the reading nook. He was even kind enough to put on headphones while he played Fire Emblem so that I could still read. #wordnerdinlove #sometimeshejustgetsme #trytoignoremywineglass

ReadingEnvy My husband has wireless headphones that he uses for games and tv while I read. 17 years of marriage so it must be working! ;) 7y
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RoniLoren
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Book mail!

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MrsV
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Laalaleighh Stacking immediately 📚 8y
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FoldedPagesDistillery
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Giving away a hand annotated copy of Gretchen's "I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl" on Instagram today! I love annotated books, but I love that Gretchen took the time to go through and write her notes in herself for one lucky person.

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B.Reader
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Mehso-so

I loved the idea of this book but was not impressed with the execution. I worked pretty hard to like it but overall thought it was rather predictable with some shallow characters. It was a fun, easy read though. Elliott appreciated that it was a quick read.

8little_paws Elliott is precious!!! 8y
B.Reader @8little_paws Thanks! He is also pretty sassy. 🐶😂🐶 8y
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B.Reader
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How I feel after a few hours of extroverting. #truestory #introverts #yawn

Desha SO true!😂😂😂 (edited) 8y
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MLVReads
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Yet another Craftedvan bookmark!

MatildaBaggins Adorable!!! 8y
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B.Reader
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I have a lot more books with #girlinthetitle thank I thought! Left side is a search of my ebooks, and right side is just one of my #tbr I'm hoping to get to this weekend. #readjanuary #somanybooks

RealLifeReading That's a great title 8y
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Super cute story about a girl who reinvents herself as the perfect Manic Pixie Dream Girl to win back her boyfriend! Sounds more sugary than it really is. This book definitely has some serious sh*t in it but is a great in between read!

Notafraidofwords What's a manic pixie girl? 8y
angrylilasian @Notafraidofwords she's the character you see in movies who is quirky and a little on the wild side who helps the sad, moody or workaholic guy learn how to let go and fall in love. 8y
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PlantyLibrarian She's also usually the girl that everyone wants/wants to be, but no one can have. 8y
EpicReads @angrylilasian basically every lead girl in a John Green novel 8y
Unicornsteak @EpicReads haha, exactly JG! 8y
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KatyAliceReads
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I can't say I'm enjoying the protagonist at this point... I find her condescending in an aggressive way. I'm also not enjoying her habit of announcing arbitrary percentages... I get it she loooooooooves math but this affectation is a weirdly annoying way of showing that.

But I'm only at chapter 11, it might get better.

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stacylee
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#photoadaynov15 #booknerdproblems
Trying to decide whether to go someplace during my Christmas vacation or stay home and read. Life is hard.

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MarriedtoMrT
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"And just like that, my neurochemical processes were excited by his external stimuli."

Ha! I'm digging the start of this "nerd" contemporary.

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KatyAliceReads
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Up next?

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KatyAliceReads
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My 3 month TBR... I've been stockpiling since the beginning of the new school year and this is where I'm at... bring on winter break!

Reviewsbylola Youve got some great #BOTM selections in there and I am really looking forward to the new Nicola Yoon. 8y
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Jwatt6
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"Women are not on this planet exclusively to inspire men and make them happy." PREACH!

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tessaurus
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Kicking off this Litsy journey with a good ol' #galleybrag! So excited to get my hands on this--the cover and title instantly drew me in with their quirkiness. Just seems like such a fun read right off the bat. Plus, how cute is it that she's holding a Tweety bird ice cream bar on the cover, complete with the crazy bubblegum eyes?? Ahh major throwback moment 💗 #SeptemberReads

Merethebookgal That is an amazing title! 8y
tessaurus @Merethebookgal Isn't it?? It's so tongue-in-cheek, I love it! 😆 8y
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tessaurus

Kicking off this Litsy journey with a good ol' #galleybrag! So excited to get my hands on this--the cover and title instantly drew me in with their quirkiness. Just seems like such a fun read right off the bat. Plus, how cute is it that she's holding a Tweety bird ice cream bar on the cover, complete with the crazy bubblegum eyes?? Ahh major throwback moment 💗

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Kiley
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The perfect read-in-one-sitting-on-a-late-summer-afternoon treat. Bonus points for a lady mathematician, something this computer science/applied math major appreciated and would love to see more of.