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Now I'll Tell You Everything (2013)

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1442445904 (ISBN13: 9781442445901)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

series

Alice

review 1: I don't remember if I was 8 or 9 years old when I picked up my first Alice book. I do remember complaining dramatically to my elementary school librarian that I was bored and had read everything in the library. And then she gave Alice in April by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and told me that I would love it. I'm 28 years old now and I feel like Alice and I grew up together. More than anything I find the books to be a comfort series to me now. I don't always run and grab it when the new book comes out but I do get a ping in my head come May to check and see if a new book is on the shelf. So reviewing Now I'll Tell You Everything is definitely bittersweet because for me and I think a great deal of other readers, this is the official end of an era and to a certain extent, a childh... moreood. The story begins as Alice is packing to go to the University of Maryland to be by herself for the first time. She has a horrible roommate experience involving a lack of boundaries that I and probably too many others can relate to. Throughout her time in college she matures, travels, meets new friends and has new relationships all while staying true to the same girl that I met in Alice in April and many others met in The Agony of Alice. Part of the reason why I've kept reading the series as an adult is because Alice is just so much an Everygirl. She's nice but not perfect and just so relatable and identifiable. Naylor fulfills her promise to chronicle Alice from age 18 to 60 and in doing so we stay in the lives of Alice and her family as well as Pamela, Elizabeth, Gwen, and even Patrick. The book is realistic about loss and love and while it has women's fiction timbre it still has the same frank matter of fact tone that has characterized all of the Alice books. I don't think it is a spoiler to say that towards the end of the book Alice opens the letter to herself that she placed in her schools time capsule in the 7th grade. The letter is full of questions about what she is like as an adult and her expectations of what she should be doing as a 60 year old. The letter ends imploring adult Alice to not forget the girl she was, which I think perfectly encapsulates the entire series. I would heartily recommend the book and series to anyone who loves young adult literature and women's fiction.
review 2: Now I'll Tell You Everything was the last book to a series I grew up with, the Alice series. The first book is narrated by 6th grade Alice McKinley as she faces the challenges of starting middle school. Throughout the twenty some-odd books she develops and you learn everything about her from what happens to her family, how she handles her love life, what true friendship means, and what high school has in store for her. Now I'll Tell You Everything starts in Alice's freshman year of college and ends when she is old and has grandchildren. This book gave me so much closure and answered all the questions all the books before it had me asking. I was glad that she ended up with her long time boyfriend Patrick, and how it didn't happen how I expected. I also liked how most of her old friends were still part of the story as she continued to grow old and her character didn't seem to she a lot as she aged. Overall, I thought this was an effective ending to a great series and I really enjoyed reading it even though it's been a few years since I read any of the other books. less

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