Today I'm helping bloggyland celebrate the release of LIKE MADARIN, by Kirsten Hubbard!
EXCERPT: I want to be beautiful like you, I thought, as if Mandarin were listening.
I want apricot skin and Pocahontas hair and eyes the color of tea. I want to be confident and detached and effortlessly sensual, and if promiscuity is part of the package, I will gladly follow your lead. All I know is I’m so tired of being inside my body.
I would give anything to be like Mandarin.
EXCERPT: I want to be beautiful like you, I thought, as if Mandarin were listening.
I want apricot skin and Pocahontas hair and eyes the color of tea. I want to be confident and detached and effortlessly sensual, and if promiscuity is part of the package, I will gladly follow your lead. All I know is I’m so tired of being inside my body.
I would give anything to be like Mandarin.
So in honor of the book (which is waiting on my Kindle), I Would Have Given ANYTHING To Be Like... 
(photo: justcoffee.coop)
My Sister, Alina.
She was five years older, forced to take me everywhere (my mom's built in babysitter), and I couldn't have been happier.
I copied everything she did, down to keeping a notebook filled with doodles and drawings of someone she had a big time crush on. I got my own pages and drew huge hearts all over them, and had absolutely no idea what I was doing! I just wanted to be self-confident and COOL, like her. :D
Oh do we laugh about it now!
So, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, Kirsten! I Can't WAIT to read it!
SEE YOU ON FRIDAY!
19 comments:
This book is seriously one of a kind. I loved everything about it, from the characters, to the voice, to the use words. It was magical!
Mine is less sentimental and more juvenile for when I was a teen :)
You two were adorable! Two little Marilyn Monroes in the making (only with a better future).
Blogging today is going to be tons of fun with so many of us celebrating Kirsten's book. :D
Aww. I loved this. So sweet that you wanted to be like your sister.
That is so cute! What an awesome story.
Thanks Christina!
This is so sweet. I love reading all these and seeing who everyone's Mandarin is. Can't wait to read the book.
The exercpt is so intriguing! And I know exactly what you mean...I had 2 shadows following me everywhere growing up - my sister Cindy and Ashley ;o) They do their own thing now, but I have to say...I miss those little shadows!
So sweet! I have a brother 9 years older than me and in some ways I wanted to be like him I guess? The age difference didn't allow for much of that because he was a teen by the time I started remembering life (and he was gone a lot). I thought he was awesome, still do ;) I just wanted to be me, as silly as that sounds.
This made me go AWE! And feel less annoyed that my sister used to copy everything I did... because, for some reason, it didn't really make sense to me until I read this. (even though my mom told me so many times it was cause she looked up to me)
The perfect post. And what a great picture! I want to be those little girls, being that carefree. Kids don't know how good they have it.
LOVE that picture! My sis is 5 years older too and I wanted to be just like her - kinda still do in a lot of ways =)
Aw, that is so sweet! I loved this post.
Aw, that's so cute! I wish I had a sister. :)
ha - i'm the older sister and this behavior DROVE. ME. CRAZY. but, all in all, a lot of great memories :)
I just finished it! It's addictive! I never had a sister (or a brother) and all these wonderful posts about sisters has me determined now to WRITE me a sister. New book, here I come. Can I use your example of copying your sister's crush in a notebook? :)
How cute! Picture AND story.
My sister is 6 years younger. She used to drive me crazy, but now we're friends.
This is definitely on my TBR list!!
And I loved your wanting to be like your older sister. I'm the oldest of four girls and I LOVE my sisters. It was cool to read a "younger sister" perspective.
Me and my sis are 5 years apart too. And we fought so miserably, but now we are BF's. I hope my son and Little Middle reach that point one day.
I can't wait to read my copy.
I love that picture!
Have a great weekend.
Ah, this is beautiful. I spent hours practicing my handwriting, trying to copy my sister's. She hated that I did it, but I hope now can see that I wasn't trying to steal her identity, I only wanted to be as wonderful as she.
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