I feel bad for laughing. This was a horrible short story. It was an easy read so I guess it deserves credit for that aspect at least but as I sit here writing this small review I am chuckling as my fingers move across the keyboard. Unfortunately, this short story wasn't one that was meant to be laughed at it seems.Firstly, the writing style was off. Some sentences seemed too formal while others were stereotypically "teen". Also, there's too many noticeable grammatical and spelling errors. Besides that point, half of the details in the short were not relevant to anything. The major sign of this is the fact that every time the characters went through the lunch line- A Sideways Glance is set in a cafeteria- the entire proceedings is detailed. We don't need to know everything the characters put on their lunch trays, nor do we need to know how much it all costs. Also, the story itself was weird. The one saving grace of this five minute read would be the character Babs, I guess. She wasn't written in as daft a manner as the main character Tracy. Also, if you stretch it a bit (well, a lot), you might manage to find the semblance of a moral or two to this short. One being not to deprive yourself of food, perhaps, and the other maybe seeing beneath the surface.Though not a moral, it does show how easily many young teen girls "fall in love" without even knowing a person, though it does so in an unrealistic manner. I guess it's okay to read. It took me 5 minutes and I read it a 12:30 AM so it's good for when you don't have much to do. This was a short story and then a sample of another book the author wrote. Basically, both the sample and the story were about the same, both were about spineless highschool girl who's in love with a cute boy she's never talked to an d refuses to talk to because she's so, whatever. Both have a friend who's slightly smarter than them, both take place in a cafeteria, and both are written really, really badly and have way too many stupid details about the food and paying for it and...it's just bad. Ugh.
What do You think about A Sideways Glance (2010)?
Cute short story about a school crush ... It took me back to my old school crush days.
—Poseidon811
This was really stuipd. It was pointless to read. It was so stupid it made me laugh.
—duaa
