Gross. Please read [b:The Popularity Papers|7092306|The Popularity Papers Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang|Amy Ignatow|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328813135s/7092306.jpg|7348690] by Amy Ignatow instead. It's so much better than this. ( )

the elementary schoolers fight over this as if there's crack between the pages
i need to find out why

1.5 stars
After reading it, I didn’t like it, but I kind of see why they love it so much?

The book is filled with funny illustrations that kids will like and was easy to read even though the random capitalizations like TOTAL MELTDOWN and HOT boys and drawing skillZ made me look twice.
There are a million American References in here that I’m too European to understand, but they are probably relatable to the American middle schoolers reading this. Who has lockers? What is the Tyra Banks TV show? And who are all those famous men she mentions as handsome?

The main character had my sympathy, because being an average middle class kid in a rich people school sounds awful, but then she behaved so self centered and shallow that I didn’t care about her anymore.
She keeps an elderly woman’s hearing aid, is mean to her little sister and exaggerated about everything. Your house is not a psychic ward because your mom refuses to buy you expensive clothes and a new phone she likely cannot afford to begin with?
Nikki complains that she wants the popular bullies to stop being mean to ‘the normal people’ who get their clothes at target, but she’s not much better herself. ( )

Well our opening line is she's calling her mom braindead stupid. Quite the experience.

So Nikki is basically a girl who is being enlisted into a private school that is very rich, very preppy, and very entitled. I'm supposed to feel bad because she doesn't have a phone. No, scratch that I'm supposed to feel bad because she doesn't have the latest phone which usually goes for you know about $500 and is super expensive and does almost everything a normal phone does. That's our introduction.

Then she gets given a diary and she treats her mother like she's a moron and mentally handicapped because it's a diary and not the latest phone.

I'm trying not to take this seriously because it's quite the experience to read about somebody complaining over minor issues while being wealthy. In 2022.

The amount of jokes I wanted to make and I did make while reading this a mounted mostly to asking if she was Elon musk's child with how small her problems were.

Imagine being upset over getting an expensive scholarship and going to a better school(Gumdrop Angel, that you?) Imagine being this mean to a sibling! Literally, she terrorizes her little sister and the parents do nothing about it. What? What kind of parents are these? And there's potty humor and I'm uncomfortable with the art of the little sister peeing herself. Nikki why the fuck are you drawing THAT? Nikki loves art, which is the only human trait she has.

How is this Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls? It had a bad decline but it was never this bad. Even the fanfictions for DoaWK aren't on this level.

Nobody talks like this. Did Rachel just think girls talk like sitcom mean girls for some reason?

I tried to stomach this book but the amount of times she calls her grandmother senile, her mom braindead, like what the fuck?

The plot takes place over six weeks and is a mess. Basically Nikki has so much wealth and can't get the phone she wants is the plot. By the end she's got almost a thousand dollars and is on her way to ""hopefully"" landing a four year scholarship at a prestigious art college. I. Could. Not. Care.

My hopes are usually a lot higher for books like this, like I'm sure Rachel Russell can do MUCH better, so I don't know why this was something she was proud of. It feels like a 90s movie bully became the protagonist. I cannot name one moment of character growth beyond Nikki is a dork somehow because she does cliche generic things only sitcom cheerleaders do.

Send help. This was bad and deserves the low rating. Now to clean my mind with hopefully a good book and forget Dork Diaries exists.

1.5 stars, didn't even have a good idea, poor execution.
Poor idea, poorer execution. ( )

Reading level; Grades 4-8
Awards:
New York Times Best Sellers
USA Today Best Sellers list
2010 Children's Choice Book of the Year Award

Dit is ook een van de boeken die ik vroeger heel veel heb gelezen. Deze boeken zijn leuk om te lezen omdat de meerderheid van het boek bestaat uit illustraties, hierdoor lees je makkelijker en kan je als lezer ook goed een beeld bij het verhaal schetsen.
Ik ben erg te spreken van dit boek, is minder leuk om voor te lezen dus echt voor iets oudere kinderen. Het is een realistisch en herkenbaar personage, je kunt je herkennen in de acties en emoties van de hoofdpersoon waardoor je je als lezer kunt introduceren. Dat is erg fijn als je aan het lezen bent en ook voor kinderen die dan denken van o ik ben njet de enige die dit heeft! ( )