Pretty Little Mistakes, by Heather McElhatton
I don’t know the last time I had so much FUN reading a book. Well, all right, actually I think I DO know, and it was when I was in elementary school and reading the Choose Your Own Adventure books. This is a version for grown-ups, complete with, um, romantic liaison decisions to make.
Oh, maybe you didn’t read those books when you were a child. This is how it works: you read a page of the book, and at the end of the page you have two choices to make. Do you want to go to college, or do you want to travel? If you want to go to college, you go to one page, and if you want to travel you go to a different page. After another page or two, you have another decision to make, and another page to turn to. You continue to make decisions until you come to the end of your path—almost always ending in your death. Then you can start again at the beginning, or you can go back several decisions and choose a different way to go this time.
I’ve been reading the book for several days now, going down path after path, and I’m nowhere near tired of it yet. —Swistle
Link: Pretty Little Mistakes at Amazon.com
Ballpark price: $10
Posted: October 28th, 2008 under Books, Personally recommended by Swistle.
Comments: 2
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Comment from linda
Time: October 28, 2008, 10:37 am
I just got through reading most of this book and returned it. It was pretty fun! I had to read it due to the fact that it’s more of ‘grown up’ choices in the life of the woman, and it was fun enough that even my boyfriend read some if it and liked it.
My favorite part was when I was flipping through to see if I wanted to read it, and looking at choices like “shoot your rapist or don’t shoot your rapist”, “get an abortion or not”, “go skydiving or not”, stuff like that. Also, when I died and came back to life as a huge octopus. Awesome!
Comment from Holly
Time: October 30, 2008, 2:25 pm
omg, WANT!!! I LOVED those books as a kid. I remember my mom didn’t consider them “real books” so she wouldn’t let me include them for the summer reading program contest I did through my library. I read tons anyways, in addition to all my ‘real’ summer reading!
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