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Tune in Anytime

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I was laughing before I finished the first page. Sophie's reactions to the shambles her life becomes are just hilarious. I wanted to do pretty much the same thing when my parents got divorced. Ms. Cooney is a very talented author.

We all enjoy watching soap operas on television, but have you ever imagined READING a soap opera? Well, if you haven't and you like soap operas, then you will LOVE Tune in Anytime. It is a soap opera in words. The story takes place in modern times with a mixed up family. Sophie Olivette is sixteen years old and lives in a mansion with her mother, Edith; father, Daniel; and soon-to-be step-mother, Persia. Her sister, Marley, is off in college. Persia was going to college with Marley, but when Marley brought Persia home, love was in the air between her and Daniel. Edith, meanwhile, is out in the boon docks trying to find her "inner-self". She doesn't care what happens to her. All she cares about is her solstice party for her rock garden that will help her be more at ease with her inner-self. She wants peace and is letting Daniel run their marriage and divorce. Sophie is amidst all of this suspense, romance, evil schemes, innocent victims and at the same time, has some true love waiting for her. She has to be calm for her sister, angry with her father, forceful with her mother, ignorant with Persia, and kind to her friends. I strongly suggest this book for teenagers. Even if soap operas aren't your type, you will still probably enjoy this book which has a little bit of everything. Enjoy!

I have literally read every book Caroline B. Cooney has written and for some reason I put off reading this book. I am not the soap opera type and thought there was no way I would like the book. Boy was I wrong! I finally decided to read it and fell in love with this book! It is really an amazing story. The emotion throughout the whole story is so intense you feel like your in the book! The characters give off a quality that you are still laughing and thinking about weeks later. I found myself taking quotes from the book and using them in conversations. I told every one of my friends to read it and loaned it to everyone I know. This is a really great book!

Tune In Anytime was an okay book. Personally, I didn't like it becuase it was very boring.All this girl talked about was her life, and how horrible it was. I do though think Mrs. Caroline B. Cooney is a talented writer, but I found this book not as enjoyable as some of her other titles. I didn't find the way the girl decribed her life as being horrible, it doesn't appeal as a book that would lift my or any teens spirits if they are going through what she did. I gave it three stars for her effort af trying to understand what it is like for us teens, but it wasn't the same. So please think about what I am writing before you spend $ on this title. You may like some other titles though from Mrs. Cooney, like, Flight #116 is Down! or Emergency!

What a purely delightful read this book is! "Tune In Anytime" is set up like a soap opera with each new episode a continuation of the lives of the Olivette and Larkman families. A family drama, the book is quite the deviation for Caroline B. Cooney, a suspense genre writer.

Poor Sophie Olivette is the still point amidst the self-centered members of her family: Daniel, 49, who plans to divorce his mate, then remarry a young model; Edith, the old wife, a long-time self-seeker; Marley, older daughter, feisty college student; and Sophie, a sensible high school student longing for her family to remain intact.

At the beginning of each chapter an italicized script introduces a typical soap opera plot, then adapts it to the Olivette family. The chapter follows the thread but in most unusual ways. First, the writing is pure magic. I will reread this book just to recapture the lovely enchantment of Cooney's words. Second, the characters never react to events in expected ways. There is an aura of mystery and other worldliness to them. Could it be caused by the stone circle on the Larkman property, where Edith plans a solstice party to precede the New Year's Eve wedding of her soon-to-be ex-husband. There's a bulldozer involved.

One of the best parts of the book is the slowly evolving romance between Sophie Olivette and Ted Larkman, high school student and third-generation gravel pit operator. His parents are doubly involved: in the plot and in the magic. Sound confusing? The novel is open-ended, but how the relationship turns out is as obvious as fairy dust.

Think of the best of Woody Allen, then you have a sense of the strange evolving in this modern day fairy tale. Very highly recommended!

Tune In Anytime was about a 16 year old girl, Sophie who is going through a really hard time in her life. Her dad is getting remarried to her sisters college roommate, Persia. Sophie's mother could care less about the situation. But Sophie and her sister conpletely agrees with her but the two have different thoughts of how to deal with the situation. Basically Tune in anytime is about a family who is seperating, and about the girl who just wants to fix it all her way.

I hated this book. I usually love books and finish every one in less than 3 day but this book was just horrible. It took me over 2 months to read it. I kept hoping it would get better but it didnt. Nothing ever happens. In the whole book people have pointless conversations and thoughts. The ending was stupid... very horrible and not realistic at all. I wouldnt recommend this book to anyone. Save your money for something better.

Sophie's life has suddenly turned into a soap opera. Her mother has always been sort of strange, getting interested in odd things. Now she seems to think there is some special meaning in the partial Stonhenge erected in her neighbor's yard. She wants to finish the stone circle and dance around it in the dark. Sophie's father has decided he has had enough, and he is planning to divorce Sophie's mother and marry the former college roommate of Sophie's sister. He will then sell their beautiful home and find a small apartment for Sophie and her mother to live in while he travels the world with his new young wife.

No one seems to think that there is any reason for Sophie to be as upset as she is. She hates her father for being insensitive and not listening at all to her concerns. He doesn't even seem to notice she exists anymore. She is angry at her mother for not fighting back, for pretending everything is fine and living in her own little world. She is angry at her sister for being away at college and being so self-centered that she won't come home to try to help.

So Sophie comes up with a plan. She will bulldoze her house. That way her father will have no money to travel the world and his new fiance will leave him. And they will all live happily ever after. But will her neighbor, her quiet and sensitive classmate Ted whose family owns gravel pits and several bulldozers, help her with her plan? Or will he be able to talk her out of it?

I thought the character of Ted was great, and I loved his family and his relationship with them. I also liked how his parents dealt with Sophie and her mom. I hated Sophie's parents, though. Her father was a horrible person and I wanted Sophie to hate him completely. Her mother was far too concerned about herself when she should have been concerned about her daughter. Their marriage wasn't worth saving.

Sophie is so mad because her dad is with a woman named Persia which is sophie's sister Maley's age. Not to mentio he is still married to mom. Sophie's dad doesn't care, and her mom acts really weird. Sophie thimks that since her dad wants a divorce the he doesn't love her mom anymore. Sophie then thinks that maybe she will never be loved or be able to love again. Eerything leads up to a party that her mom is throwing with a bunch of her friends. While at the part all of her anger builds up and she decides to bulldoze her husbands house. At the end her husband is very upset but sophie and her mom have a sense of relief, and no longer does her mom act weird.

Tune In Anytime is about a young girl named Sophie, who is 16-years-old and her dad is getting remarried to a 23-year-old. Her name is Persia. She was Marley's ( Sophie's sister) roommate, but when they went home to visit Marley's family, Persia fell in love with Daniel even though she knew that he was married. Daniel didn't care eather. He loved Persia as much as she loved him. Sophie hated her and would make her life miserable for the rest of her life.