Review: Popular - Maya Van Wagenen

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Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

Review: Popular - A Memoir - Maya Van Wagenen - April 2014

What would you do in order to become one of the popular crowd ? Would you undergo an experiment in order to see how a change in personality on the outside could land you sitting at the popular kids table ? Maya's family loved antiques and classic items and one day her father brought her a 1950's guide to being a teenage girl written by former 50's model Betty Cornell. Maya decided to for the year adapt the 50's ettiquette, fashion and the whole she-bang in order to see whether the same rules still applied to today's society and whether it made a difference or if she got a reaction from her peers. Popular was a quick read and very fascinating as each month we read as Maya tries something different and new from 50's fashion to hairstyles to posture. We read as Maya soon discovers who her friends are and that the popular kids are exactly the same as everyone else and that they hold the same conversations as say - the art geeks. This was a fun story and very inspirational and I applaud Maya at giving this a go and writing about it , as not many people in today's society would put something as extreme as she did into action and continue it day in and day out for the whole entire year. Teen Girls, if you have ever thought about how you could move up the social food chain of high school and be "one " of the popular kids - unless you are already there, then check out Popular by Maya Van Wagenen. The other thing that I loved about this was that Maya was eventually contacted by Betty Cornell - the model and author of the book she had been following which was quite exciting for Maya as you can imagine.







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