![]() Can you guess where the spaghetti comes into the story? See if you are right by reading Anyway. ![]() Action takes place at a shopping mall, in Max’s backyard, at camp, and at a big birthday party where girls and boys play musical chairs. Max would not want me to reveal too much about his story, but let me just say that he has one set of friends (and an enemy) from his school and makes another set when he goes to summer camp with his family. They also alert you to the 27 exaggerations. Don’t skip them, for they reveal much about Max’s character and that of his alter ego Mad Max. Max is not a storyteller who can stay on subject, which is why he includes 138 footnotes. ![]() He tells all about his rocky summer in Anyway: A Story about Me with 13 8 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti by Arthur Salm. Usually good kid Max, who is between seventh and eighth grade, often hears that his mishaps will be funny someday, but he is ready to get past the tween stage and never return. Most of my memories of junior high are pleasant, but not all, and I am very happy that I do not have to live them again. 1 quote from Arthur Salm: '.the man simply chooses not to be a public figure, an attitude that resonates on a frequency so out of phase with that of the prevailing culture that if Pynchon and Paris Hilton were ever to meet the circumstances, I admit, are beyond imagining the resulting matter/antimatter explosion would vaporize everything from here to Tau Ceti IV. ![]()
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