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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

Written by Kevin Brockmeier

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip follows twelve-year-old Kevin Brockmeier over the course of a single school year as he sets out in search of himself: losing old friends and gaining new ones, happening into his first kiss, writing plays and stories, dressing as Dolly Parton for Halloween, booby-trapping his lunch to deter a thief.

With the same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that are the hallmarks of his fiction, Brockmeier now explores the dream of his own past, recovering the person he used to be, the friends he had, the hopes he nurtured, the doubts he hid, the secrets he kept, the books he read – everything that was once his life.

©2014 Kevin Brockmeier (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 15, 2014
ISBN9781629236353
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
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Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of five novels for adults and two children's novels. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, among other publications. He has taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

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    I was captivated by the title of this book, A++ for a great title. It may have made me assume, though, that the memoir would be more of a humorous one, which it is not. There are definitely humorous aspects to it, but overall it's a sincere reflection on being in the seventh grade, some of the good things, but mostly the sheer awkwardness and cluelessness of it. I am one of those people who finds a lot of fictional depictions of embarrassing situations too viscerally embarrassing to bear, this skated right up to this line for me.I thought it was an interesting choice to include a section that very literally lets the author dole out information about his life after the seventh grade, and it comes at the midpoint of the book so for the second half you are reading with a basic sense of the larger life events that will occur in the future. It was executed well, but I might have liked the book better without it. I'm really on the fence about this point.Overall, it could have been a little tighter. The writing is very nice, the voice is extremely believable and rings really true, but it could have achieved the same results with a little less of it.