![]() While they get off to a rocky start with Sol insulting Alex in Yiddish, Alex eventually learns that Sol likes music when he brings his guitar to the nursing home by accident. ![]() Plot Summary: Alex is arrested for drinking and driving (details below), and is forced to spend 100 hours with Solomon Lewis, a sour man suffering from emphysema. While some of Alex's life lessons and plot resolutions are a bit predictable and unrealistic, this touching, funny book is fast-paced and enjoyable. He is unsure if she feels the same way about him, but know-it-all Sol makes them a couple by calling her Mrs. During the course of the book, Alex discovers he has growing feelings for his best friend since childhood, Laurie, a “terrifying goth pixie” who practices karate and Chinese hand-weapon combat. ![]() The notes of the title come into play when in addition to his community service, Alex is required to write letters to the judge about his progress with Sol. After drinking what is left of his absent father's liquor, stealing and crashing his mother's car in the process of which he beheads a garden gnome, Alex Gregory is sentenced to community service at the local nursing home so he can learn some “valuable life lessons.” He winds up having to spend time with cranky Sol Lewis, who is suffering from emphysema but has a very interesting and surprising past, which will help Alex with his own guitar playing. ![]()
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