![]() ![]() YA)Ī Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. A modestly successful debut for indie music retailer Prinz. ![]() Once past the exposition-heavy first chapters, Allie's voice grows appealing and authoritative, while other missteps-blog posts are wrongly called “blogs,” and what self-respecting music snob would omit Johnny Marr’s tenure in Modest Mouse from a sentence cataloguing his long career?-are annoying, but ultimately trifling quibbles. ![]() Allie’s blogging success helps her move from a cantankerous intolerance for iPods to an age-appropriate adoption of the digital-culture tools that help her keep her beloved music alive. On the side, Allie goes undercover with best friend Kit to prove that Kit’s rocker boyfriend Niles is a faithless jerk, handles her mother’s re-entry into the dating scene with grace and humor and nurses a serious crush on M, a newcomer who turns out to be extremely dangerous. Her blog and fanzine channel her obsessive theories, enthusiasms and knowledge, all fueled by her job at Bob & Bob’s, a legendary and now fading record store on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue. Allie is devoted to musicians in every genre, as long as their tunes were pressed onto vinyl. ![]()
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