At any rate, aside from that issue, this was a fun listen that provided lots of laughs, and Anne Hathaway's performance was excellent. It would have been just as funny, if not more so, had her school difficulties been in geography. Listen Free to Princess Diaries, Volume I: The Princess Diaries audiobook by Meg Cabot with a 30 Day Free Trial.
What I don't understand is why Ms Cabot felt the need to go stereotypical with girls and math. Am I being too much of a feminist when I cringe at her problems with math and how it takes a boy to help her understand? Or that her algebra teacher bumps her grade up to a D because he is dating her mom? I totally understand the adolescent angst of dealing with social anxiety, coupled with the horrors of finding out that she has to learn to dress and act like a princess. What I didn't like about the book is the poor role-model Mia makes for girls. Of course, this is the first of a series, so they will likely be fleshed out in succeeding books. Other characters were interesting as well, though I wouldn't say any of them were particularly well-developed. Then her life gets really challenging when she learns that she is actually the heir to the throne of a tiny European principality. She details her issues of liking the popular boy, being talked down to by his snotty cheerleader girlfriend, and dealing with the difficulties of algebra. Her mother has given her a diary through which the entire story is told. I love the movie and I adore the audio book.
She has written and published over fifty novels of young adult and adult fiction, and is best known for her young adult series Princess Diaries. But what's a girl to do when her name is PRINCESS AMELIA MIGNONETTE GRIMALDI THERMOPOLIS RENALDO?Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.Setting: contemporary NY, NY Genre: YA situation comedy I enjoyed this book about a too-thin, too-tall, flat-chested 14 year old girl trying to adjust to high school, along with her smart, bossy best friend Lily. The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries 1), Meg Cabot Meggin Patricia Cabot is a prolific American novelist. (So no heir to the throne.)Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material.The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne.Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal-blue in the face about her princessly duty no- way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!)Downer: Dad can't have any more kids.
She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia.
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