What About me? (Book Review 5)

What About Me? (Book Review 5)

By: Colby F Rodowsky

            “What About Me”, is an old 1976 book about old fashioned family problems. The amount of family problems varies depending on how far someone is in the book from time, to time again. It’s an alright book, but gives off the wrong vibe towards the younger brother and main character. I didn’t really like the book, but it had the concept of another great, book I read in the past.

The book starts off with a fifteen-year-old girl named Dorrie, but she has a problem. She wants to go to this “once in a life-time” party at her friend’s house. So, she makes plans, and gets ready, but at the last minute, her mother says no, and tells her to babysit her brother for the night. She explains herself in fashionable manor, but her mother says, “If I can’t stay to watch Fredlet,” the younger brother, “you have to.”

            She does as her mother says, and babysits Fredlet. However that’s only the beginning of it. Later on, Fredlet starts “ruining” her school career and her social life in strange ways. She tries to avoid him best she can, but usually fails. Now she’s looking for easy ways she can cope with Fredlet, or ways to avoid her family all together.

            There’s not too much to this book, considering there’s only 136 pages, but some pages are somewhat enjoyable. I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t like, family matters, talks, and compromise issues.