- Hardcover: 307 pages
- Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA); First Edition first Printing edition (8 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0763630667
- ISBN-13: 978-0763630669
- Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 3.1 x 20.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,383,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dad’s an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter’s a buttoned-up neat freak who’d rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved?
Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending two weeks with her father — punk name: the Rat — a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn’t want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat’s place is a mess and he’s not like anything she’d call a father, Katy won’t make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she? From the author of BOY PROOF and THE QUEEN OF COOL comes an edgy new L.A. novel full of humor, heart, and music.
Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending two weeks with her father — punk name: the Rat — a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn’t want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat’s place is a mess and he’s not like anything she’d call a father, Katy won’t make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she? From the author of BOY PROOF and THE QUEEN OF COOL comes an edgy new L.A. novel full of humor, heart, and music.
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Format:Paperback
Beige is an adorable novel that will appeal to all those who have music in their hearts. When Katy is forced to spend a summer in Los Angeles with her aging rockstar father, she believes it'll turn out to be the worst summer of her life. However, things change as Katy starts to meet exciting new people who prove to her that being `beige' isn't all she wants to be. This was a definitely a cute read, but I was expecting a bit more depth from the characters. Instead, they were too young for me to fully connect with them and this stopped me from enjoying the story as much as I should have. I did enjoy Katy's friendship with Lake, this felt to me the most realistic relationship in the novel. I recommend this to anyone who loves music, particularly punk, and wants a book that doesn't involve too much thinking.
Format:Paperback
Beige is a nowhere colour. It doesn't stand out or get noticed and most of all it is blank. It doesn't swing one way or another and just is what it is and so when Katy gets giving Beige as her nickname it couldn't be more fitting. Her estranged dad, The Rat as he's called by all that know him, has always been an extreme person from one of the legendary Californian punk bands, Suck, who never made it huge but influenced everyone. Now after years apart and due to her mum's work taking her away to a dig in Peru, Katy is forced to stay with her dad for 2 weeks and can only `fit around' his life because Katy doesn't fit in much of anywhere. She has a few likes and is very intellectual and book smart but being thrown into the So-Cal Punk scene and The Rat's world is nothing short of mind boggling. She likes quiet and calm and The Rat is all about noise and chaos. Katy misses her mum and has to try and survive what soon becomes more than a couple of weeks but a summer with her dad as his band reforms, making friends with people that couldn't be more different from her and discovering what Punk really means. Not just the music but the lifestyle and heart of it.
Beige is a great read for both people that are really into their music or for those that have no real interest in music at all except for the general radio hopping in the car. It's about the differences in people and how this can draw them together rather than divide them if they are willing to take a few risks and to let others into their lives. By cutting the world off Beige has been living a quiet life but she's also never tried a loud existence either. Life is about trying things out and seeing what suits you so by flat out even trying to know her dad more than she is required to then she's losing out and in return her dad can't see past music so he struggles to relate to Katy. It's almost like a knife wound to his gut when Katy admits her lack of musical ability or even interest in music or any genre.
Beige is a great read for both people that are really into their music or for those that have no real interest in music at all except for the general radio hopping in the car. It's about the differences in people and how this can draw them together rather than divide them if they are willing to take a few risks and to let others into their lives. By cutting the world off Beige has been living a quiet life but she's also never tried a loud existence either. Life is about trying things out and seeing what suits you so by flat out even trying to know her dad more than she is required to then she's losing out and in return her dad can't see past music so he struggles to relate to Katy. It's almost like a knife wound to his gut when Katy admits her lack of musical ability or even interest in music or any genre.
Format:Paperback
Some books just transport you, the combination of writing about music, the recommended play list and the story itself will do that with this story. The story is about a teenage girl from Montreal going to L.A. to spend a few weeks with her estranged father the legendary and infamous rocker The Rat from the band Suck. Katy feels like she has been exiled, her mother has gone to Peru for her PhD thesis. Katy does not know anyone, does not want to be there and does not know how to communicate her true feelings. Yet even with that this book is full of surprises.
Katy gets to know her father, and his band mate Sam Suck, Sam's daughter Lake and her father's girlfriend Trixie. She meets two boys, cool, athletic, Leo and nerdy Garth. Shortly after her arrival Katy thinks "For some people, clutter is ok. They can live amid chaos but not me. For me, piles of things on top of things scattered on things equals me not being able to think straight. A Mess actually hurts me physically." p.13 As soon as a read that I was hooked and knew that I would like Katy if we were to meet in real life.
This book comes with a recommended playlist, by about the third chapters I pulled it together and listened to it while reading the book. It really does enhance the book.
Beige's Exclusive Punk Playlist! But one of the unique features of this book is that instead of chapter titles or numbers each chapter heading is a song and a band. I created a second playlist with those to listen to also.
I am already planning on rereading this book at least twice more. The first time I will listen to the chapter song while reading that chapter. The second I will listen to the two albums by the authors, Nerdy Girl Twist Her and Cecil Seaskull Whoever, I can't wait to read her book while listing to her music.
Katy gets to know her father, and his band mate Sam Suck, Sam's daughter Lake and her father's girlfriend Trixie. She meets two boys, cool, athletic, Leo and nerdy Garth. Shortly after her arrival Katy thinks "For some people, clutter is ok. They can live amid chaos but not me. For me, piles of things on top of things scattered on things equals me not being able to think straight. A Mess actually hurts me physically." p.13 As soon as a read that I was hooked and knew that I would like Katy if we were to meet in real life.
This book comes with a recommended playlist, by about the third chapters I pulled it together and listened to it while reading the book. It really does enhance the book.
Beige's Exclusive Punk Playlist! But one of the unique features of this book is that instead of chapter titles or numbers each chapter heading is a song and a band. I created a second playlist with those to listen to also.
I am already planning on rereading this book at least twice more. The first time I will listen to the chapter song while reading that chapter. The second I will listen to the two albums by the authors, Nerdy Girl Twist Her and Cecil Seaskull Whoever, I can't wait to read her book while listing to her music.
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Cecil Castellucci knows how to write in a way that is both simple and profound. Her characters are very chic but still relateable and for the most part, she doesn't get sucked into... Read more
Published on 27 May 2008 by Ms. E. K. Groom
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