Reading Journal, Lola and the Boy Next Door

Lola and the Boy Next Door is a book that I read in high school, and I recently started rereading again. This book shows how the thrills of young teenage girl love can be so naive. Lola see love with her adult boyfriend to be filled with romance, and perfect bliss. The truth is that Max is a front man of a band, who really does not have any potential. He is selfish and self absorbed. Max is obsessed with the Lolita culture, where Lola is just a seventeen year old girl who loves to dress up. There is another love interest in the mix. Kermit Bell is his name. He is the neighbor boy who lives next door. Lola liked him when they were younger, but then something happened. When Lola is not at home with his dog, and her dads or at school, she is working at a movie theater, where her friend who works there has her boyfriend that hangs out from time to time. They tell Lola how bad Max is, and how good Kermit is. Lola thinks she is madly in love with Max, but at this point she does not really know how bad he actually is. Her dads dislike him, and Max even shows discomfort when Lola is not dressing up in wigs and heavy make up. Max likes the thrill of dating a younger girl without having her look like a younger girl.