At 3 a.m. today i finished reading this book - yes, i was up all night reading it! It was quite an enthralling read from page 1. The story is from the point of view of Opal, an NRI living in USA. She has always planned on going to Harvard and has built her life around it. She practically breathes, eats, sleeps Harvard. But when her early admissions interview goes horribly wrong (on account of being all academic, ONLY), she plans to reform her life so that when she applies for the reglar action, nothing can get in her way. Although it gets a bit slow in the near-end when - *spoiler alert* - her plan fails, it's still amusing. I love Kali's character although it's rarely mentioned and how eccentric opal's parents are and how they are plan everything out and stuff. And i'd have given it a 4-star if it weren't for the fact that most of it is chiseled off from other prominent authors' books (check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaavya_Viswanathan for the controversy), it hurts but it did me one good - thanks to Ms. Vishwanathan, I now know what books to read next ;)
so till nxt tym,
ciao mon amis,
kira
so till nxt tym,
ciao mon amis,
kira
When Opal Mehta was six years old her parents moved from India to New Jersey so that they could get their child a place at the finest learning institution in the world: Harvard University. To achieve this goal, the Mehtas carefully and thoroughly constructed HOWGIH (How Opal Will Get Into Harvard). Opal's life so far has strictly adhered to this plan - cello lessons at age 6, foreign languages at 7, mechanical engineering classes, horticulture and mosaic art classes after that. Now, armed with a sterling set of academic and extra-curricular credentials, Opal has applied to Harvard. Failure is not an option. But the first question the admissions officer asks her is 'What do you like to do for fun?' She is stumped. Studying and hard work are all she's ever known. Boys hold no appeal (well, perhaps Sean Whalen, but he thinks she's a nerd.) But when she tells her parents, they simply take it all in their stride. 'There is no problem too big for us Mehtas,' declares her father. And so HOWGAL - How Opal Will Get A Life - springs into action, with hilarious results.
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