When Michael Schaub and the Largehearted Boy started raving about Emma Schaub’s Fly-over State on Twitter, it took me roughly 48 seconds to order up the book. That kind of hype cannot be withstood. Besides,…
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Smell ya later
It’s a tricky thing, reviewing a book that’s a recommendation from a friend (or in this case an I Will Dare reader). Well, I guess it’s only tricky when you didn’t enjoy the book. If…
If I were a teenage lesbian in the 90s I?d have loved Ariel Schrag
When we last left off, Ariel Schrag had just finished tenth grade. As good as her freshmen and sophomore years were to read, junior year is even better. The first thing I noticed about Potential…
Fuck, I really loved the hell out of Blankets
“It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.” That’s a line Rob Hudson (John Cusack) says in the movie…
And we go on after some lip sync chicks
While slowly falling under the winsome spell of sixteen-year-old Sebastian Pendergrast, the main character in The House of Tomorrow, I made a crack about how an author could increase the chances of me liking his/her…
A charming tale of teenagehood featuring L7 & Gwen Stefani
I approached Ariel Schrag’s Awkward and Definition with a little bit of trepidation. Earlier this year I made the proclamation that I was going to read one graphic novel a week, and since I’m an…