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...painful yet delightful flashback scenes, wonderfully adept at tugging on adolescent girl anxieties, set the tone for 13 Going On 30, a Big story of suburban New Jersey girl Jenna Rink’s ascension into kitten-heeled city-girl life with the help of a boy, a wish, and a “seven minutes in heaven” game gone wrong. 13 year-old Jenna is, like, so not cool, until she wakes up in possession of a Fifth Avenue apartment and an editorial position at Poise magazine with her former nemesis as her right-hand woman. This...
...painful yet delightful flashback scenes, wonderfully adept at tugging on adolescent girl anxieties, set the tone for 13 Going On 30, a Big story of suburban New Jersey girl Jenna Rink’s ascension into kitten-heeled city-girl life with the help of a boy, a wish, and a “seven minutes in heaven” game gone wrong...
...years, through all the musical-chairs dating and goofy college-flashback episodes, the characters have dealt with one problem: how to replace the kind of family in which they grew up with the one they believed they were supposed to have. One way was by making one another family. But they also found answers that should have, yet somehow didn't, set off conniptions in the people now exercised over gay marriage and Janet Jackson's nipple...
Like The Blind Assassin and many of her other novels, the bulk of Oryx and Crake is told in flashback, giving the reader a peculiar sense of suspense for events that have already taken place. In a mystery novel, Atwood says, “the immediate story is who gets to be dead. If, however, you’re dealing with a family, then that’s where the story...
...African American Experience, has faith in a substitutionary atonement through the death of Jesus. It is, she affirms, "one of the cornerstone beliefs of the African-American church." But she believes in some other things too. Some years back, sitting in a seminary class, she had a flashback. She was a girl again, and her mother had just been murdered by her boyfriend. Once more Terrell saw the blood-soaked mattress and her mother's bloody handprint on the wall. And suddenly, "I had to find a connection between my mom's story and my story and Jesus' story...