How to Ditch Your Fairy; All About the Author

The author for the book I am reading, Justine Larbalestier , I have never quite heard of before. So I decided to do some research about the author in hopes of letting people get to know this author and explore some of the other books she has written. 

Justine Larbalestier was born in Australia and she is best known for writing young adult fiction. She has won many awards for her books, including the Andre Norton award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, both of which are science fiction awards. She is also famously known for her novel Liar, published in 2009. You can learn more about her at her own website http://justinelarbalestier.com/ , where she has information on news about her, a biography telling a little bit more about herself, all of her books and their summaries, her own blog, appearances she will be making, FAQ, and how to contact her.

 On her website she tells a story about how she created the book I am reading, How to Ditch Your Fairy. The story behind her creating this novel was she was hanging out with her friends, driving along a coast when there was a huge crowd, and they couldn't get a parking spot. When they found a parking spot in midst of the traffic, her friends had declared one of the friends in the car had a ,"parking fairy". That day, she had already written 4,000 words creating the book I am reading now. The link below is provided for you if you would like to see and hear about the author talking about how she created one of her other novels, Razorhurst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XJDxLabK8

How to Ditch Your Fairy; Starting a new book

Since I have recently finished the Fault in our Stars, it was time I needed a new book. I do not have much time in my day to go to the library, so I simply just borrowed a book from my sister. It is called How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier. So far, I haven't started the book, but I have read the summary and what I conclude is that there is this girl named Charlie, who talks about everyone having their 'personal fairy', and how her's is a parking fairy. Now at first, this didn't make so much sense to me but i have came to a realization that each person's 'fairy' is their own special talent. And apparently, hers is having the ability to find the best parking spot.

Now my predictions for this book is that the main character, Charlie, will try to ditch her 'fairy', hence how to 'ditch' your fairy, and maybe it won't go as well as she thought it would. She seems characterized as the type of person who is always down on their luck and gets stuck with no umbrella on a rainy day, or who's car broke down on the day of an important meeting. My goal is to read ten chapters into this book or more, and hopefully I can gain a stronger sense of what this book's topic is really about.

Have you all ever had really bad luck?

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