I am clearly the least creative at 12am. I wanted to briefly review some of the books I've read over the past week, thanks to non-musical-having free time.These were certainly a fun read. I saw them in my school library during my free class period, and remembered seeing TTYL on a banned books list. That obviously piqued my interest. (I'm only kind of kidding.) So along with being banned from some libraries because of frank teenage discussion of risque content (i.e. sex), I was also curious about these because they detail high school drama. That's something I pride myself in being mostly removed from, so reading these books made me shake my head about all of the gossipy things I have "missed out on." The formatting of these books is very unique. You can really follow the three main characters (Zoe, Angela, and Madigan) as they grow up throughout the books. The last one was my favorite, probably because it details the girls' senior year, college acceptance, and overall growing up. So many feels were felt. I think I remember tearing up a little bit. Overall, these are good, but they are very blunt about a couple mostly taboo topics and do push envelopes, so read with maturity and a little bit of caution. These are fun books that were stocked by a high school library, so there's that! I must confess, the title scared me a little. In the end, the intrigue won over, and then I figured out that this is a memoir. I was extremely interested when I started this book. In fact, I even went through the trouble of checking it out to take it home over the weekend. (I read the series above sitting in the library. I'm a nerd.) The cover is interesting. It caught my eye. Now about the insides of this book! It's eye-opening. It's really unique. I had never read anything like this before. I thought it was a really clever concept and this actually happened which makes it even better. This is a great book. It combats a lot of stereotypes and addresses teen pregnancy in a very poignant way. (I am secretly rejoicing that I got to use the word "poignant" on my blog.) This book is really inspiring. It encourages readers to rise above stereotypes and what people expect of them. I think the world could use a little more of that.
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Happy April! I am going to share with you some of my adventures. I am also continually going to employ sentence structure that is rather strange, because right now, I feel like I need a little ridiculousness. Let's see...the last thing I discussed here was my new doctor and my honors program admittance, so I'll proceed from there.
Wow, that is one long list. To me, it's absolutely exhilarating because I love my life, but to you, darling reader, I'm sure it's a bit dull. So in my endeavors on this blog....I think I'm going to post more varied things, and when I give you long, rant-filled updates, I will try to include actual pictures of actual things, i.e. pictures of my goats and how my pale I am, or any more spring/summer adventures. I enjoy throwing all of the words up there for the wonderful thing called self-expression, but I understand that my self-expression is pretty boring sometimes. I'll do better. It's all for you, bb.
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