Must've Done Something Good
by Cheryl Cory
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Author: Cheryl CoryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-12
ISBN: 061517065X
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Thirteen Hundred Media
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Book Review: A Great Tale about Teaching, First Impressions, and finding your own Mr. Darcy or Captain Von Trapp
Summary: 5 Stars
As a first-year teacher myself, I found Sylvie O'Rourke delightful, relatable, inspiring, and very much down-to-earth. A real heroine to admire!
This is a wonderful tale of a woman who is simple, romantic and desires to be loved unconditionally despite her flaws. She finds herself as a 10th grade English teacher in a private school where the principal's main focus is raising money for the dilapidated school. She learns what every first-year soon discovers about teaching the pros and the cons.
The book has a wonderful cast of characters that you become invested in and can relate to. There are Sylvie's two sisters, Kate and Meg, who like eating snack foods a ritual, watch their all-time favorite movie "The Sound of Music," and tease each other. Other fellow first teachers such as Elise and Ben, both a bit flirtatious and cause a little bit a trouble. Then there is Evan Danes, a fellow English teacher, who makes a terrible first impression on Sylvie by not wanting to be her mentor. She is offended and upset that he does not like her when he doesn't even know her!
It soon becomes apparent that some of teachers are pairing off romantically but Sylvie, has decided that this year she would devote to "doing something good" and not get wrapped up in romantic affairs, especially at school!
What I mostly enjoyed about this book is the parallels that can be found in the plot of Pride and Prejudice and The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition). It is similar in some ways to Bridget Jones's Diary as it is a modern adaption of Pride and Prejudice. Like BJD it does not follow Pride and Prejudice completely, it is more like the characters from this book resemble and have similar personalities to characters from P&P. It is fun to discover which character is a Wickham, a Darcy, a Bingley, or a Caroline Bingley. Because Sylvie loves the Sound of Music she believe Captain Von Trapp is the ideal man. There are many quotes and lines from The Sound of Music peppered through out the book some more obvious then others. As a fan The Sound of Music, I immensely enjoyed finding them!
I can not say enough good things about this debut novel from Cheryl Cory! I loved her style, language, and would love to read more by her. I highly recommend this book to any first-year teacher, Pride and Prejudice fan, or Sound of Music fan!.
Summary of Must've Done Something Good
Sylvie O'Rourke, The Sound of Music devotee and born procrastinator, is about to die. Well, she thinks she is, anyway, and so attempts a last-ditch bargain with God for her life. "You guys are my witnesses," she tells her sisters somewhere over Connecticut. "If we get out of this plane alive, I promise to do something good with my life." Back on firm ground, Kate and Meg won't let their sister forget her promise, and with their years of practice hitting just the right chords of guilt ("What kind of person lies to God?" Meg wants to know), Sylvie finally caves. A teaching position at the broken-down St. Matthew's High School appears to be Sylvie's perfect opportunity to do some good, though her irreverent style gets her called down to the principal more often than her students. Can Sylvie keep her promise and make it through the year, dignity and sanity intact?Entertainment Books
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