Okay for now book6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The new house is a complete dump and Doug has to share a room with his older brother who has “quick hands” (both the stealing and hitting kind).Īnd thus begins life in “stupid Marysville.” As it opens, his family is moving away to Marysville where his dad has gotten a new job (no one dares to ask about why he’s lost the old job, but Doug’s descriptions of the family make it clear that Doug and his older brother didn’t inherit their trouble-making ways from nowhere). Now, Doug gets an entire book to himself. This truly is a stand-alone book.ĭoug Swietek appears in The Wednesday Wars, but he’s notable mostly for his list of “401 ways to make a teacher hate you” and his older brother, known only as “Doug Swietek’s brother” who is, himself, a notorious trouble maker and always out to get someone (often Holling). ![]() If you haven’t read The Wednesday Wars, you won’t have that unpleasant sensation of missing a lot of things as you read Okay for Now (oh, how I loathe that feeling). Okay for Now is a companion book to The Wednesday Wars, but most definitely not a sequel. Gary Schmidt books have everything – brains, wit, humor, heart. ![]() I really think Gary Schmidt might be the best middle-grade author alive today. I worried that there was no way it could live up to The Wednesday Wars, which is perhaps my favorite book of all time, but it was just as wonderful. I don’t have words to praise Okay for Now highly enough – I have had to curb myself considerably to keep from quoting nearly the entire book in this review. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |