Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Review: A Match Made In High School
Published: February 4, 2010 by Razorbill
Format: Paperback, 278 pgs*
Source: Gift
Description:
When the principal announces that every senior must participate in a mandatory year-long Marriage Education program, Fiona Sheehan believes that her life can't get any worse. Then she marries her “husband”: jerky jock Todd, whose cheerleader girlfriend, Amanda, has had it in for Fiona since day one of second grade. Even worse? Amanda is paired with Fiona's long-term crush, Gabe. At least Fiona is doing better than her best friend, Marcie, who is paired up with the very quiet, very mysterious Johnny Mercer.
Pranks, fights, misunderstandings, and reconciliations ensue in an almost Shakespearean comedy of errors about mistaken first impressions, convoluted coupling, and hidden crushes.
My Thoughts:
This is yet another book I picked up in New York (a year ago)
The cover screams teen drama, and that's precisely what you get. Jerks, jocks, cheerleaders, rockers, love, betrayal, pranks . . . this book has them all. And there are parents. Real ones. Ones that get involved and actually have a role in the book. Oh, and real characters. Johnny Mercer isn't your hot jock or even the mildly attractive sidekick. He's just your average Joe, and Fiona's not exactly gorgeous either.
My biggest critiques are in the marriage class that seems incredibly unlikely (although incredibly hilarious) and in Fiona's best friend Marcie, whose actions don't always come across as being true to her character. Obviously I got over the interesting plot easily, as I enjoyed the book, but Marcie was a little harder to overcome; her unbelievable words and actions felt jarring to me on more than one occasion.
All in all this was a fresh, spunky read that I enjoyed. Props to Walker for creating a great YA novel for real young adults.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Ramblings, Updates, and Other News
Trying to get to my seat before commencement.
Diploma. I has one.
Me with my gorgeous little sisters. Marie, left, and Autumn, right.
Alright. So that's a short look at my college graduation. Good times. I have yet to receive my actual diploma in the mail yet, but I have a pretty holder for it when it does come in.... Anyway, I wanted to include a picture with my sisters because Marie is actually graduating high school tonight! EXCITING! I'm incredibly happy about this, as I would not have been able to make it to her graduation if my own hadn't come a week before hers. YAY good universe karma! Autumn still has another year to go, which means she had better pick a college soon. :) (Marie decided to go to my Alma Mater. I never thought that could make me happy haha.)
In other news, I have been applying for jobs and searching for an apartment. You'll know more when I do. Promise. Also, might I just add that preparing for a cross-country move is hard. I don't even know how I'm going to get most of my stuff up there. Crazy. Umm. Yea. that's where I'm at now. Upacking, repacking, packing more things, rearranging things. It's awesome.
How have you been? What are you up to? Did you miss me as much as I missed you? :P
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Oh, hi there!
*cue freakout*
I am ready to be done; don't get me wrong. Totally ready. However, I've never not been in school. I'm 21 years old and I've been in school since I was 5. I don't remember a time without it. And now comes the job search (which is incredibly difficult from here in Arkansas haha) and the apartment hunt (also difficult). I'm thrilled. I cannot wait to be finished with classes and out there doing what I love, working with books.
So I apply for jobs, and wait on the knot in my stomach to go away or at least get a little better. But it doesn't. And I'm not sure that it ever will. So that's where I've been. Trying to make it through one day at a time. I should be able to get you wonderful people some reviews this weekend. (I've got three for sure I need to post. I'm really behind. My apologies.)
Anywho, how are all of you doing these days?
Friday, April 1, 2011
Safe Zone
No, seriously.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Shiny New Project and TSA
In the mean time, I have begun work on what I have dubbed Shiny New Project. About a month or so ago, this boy popped into my head. I don't know where he came from. I didn't know his name or anything about him. I just knew he had a story, and he wanted me to tell it. And this is how he came to me:
"I was ten when the world ended. Well, sort of. My sister Laney was thirteen. She'd remember it better than me, but she never even made it to fifteen. She wasn't the only one."
That little guy had me. He did. but I'd promised myself I wasn't going to work on anything else until TSA was out for crits. And I didn't. So TSA got shipped to my lovelies, and Shiny New Idea became Shiny New Project. I wrote the first chapter (a whole whopping 3 pages) the first night without knowing anything more than those four sentences. Now I know a whole lot more.
This new book is some odd version of a post-apocalyptic/dystopian, and I say odd because the world has literally just ended, and the whole point of the book is the formation of the dystopian society/-ies. It's gonna be so much fun. No supernatural abilities. No paranormal creatures. Just people. Living in a futuristic world that's fallen to pieces around them.
EXCITING.
So, what're all of you fine people up to as of late?
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