Summer Reading Book 1

Title: Crazy in Alabama

Author: Mark Childress

In eleventh grade English class we had to watch the movie version as part of our end of the year movie month and I really loved it! Miss Evans suggested that we read the book as she says that it is the better of the two. I being the one to take suggestions for anytype of book began to read it as my summer reading. I really enjoyed reading Peejoe's sections, as being a teen myself, could definitely understand all the confusion he was feeling at a time in history that many of us have only read about. Lucille's sections hit my feminine side and made me laugh very hard at her sexual experiences as well as sexual awakening. Much like the movie, with a few things added, I had different opinions about how I felt about the story itself. I give the book a 94/100. The movie however, I give a grade lower [90/100] for its subtractions of scenes I feel they should have added as well as extended, such as, the court scene with Lucille and the judge.

94/100 (94%)