Recommendation from a good friend: The Princess Diaries, a young adult novel by Meg Cabot. Best bit: the quote at the beginning from Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess:

"Whatever comes," she said, " cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."

Princess Diaries is cute and silly. Deep? Not very. Naughty? Only a wee bit. Framework? A series of journal entries by a young lady, over a three-week period, as she learns that she's the crown heir of a tiny European nation. Discovery? Her prior teen troubles are radically changed into new, albeit equally tiny, troubles. Bottom Line? Hmmmmmm ... hard to say. First in a series of a dozen books plus some films. Fast and fun reading.

^z - 2023-10-15