Many of my book blogging friends enjoy public humiliation. I never get around to doing Fragment Fridays, so I decided to do a video review. These are the first videos I’ve ever made, so bear with me. Hopefully I will either get more comfortable and learn some video editing skills with practice, or you’ll all [...]

Tags: Christmas, family problems, friendship, humor, identity, romance, treasure hunt, video
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Ollie can’t be bothered to care about anything but girls until he gets his Deathday Letter and learns he’s going to die in twenty-four hours. Bummer. Ollie does what he does best: nothing. Then his best friend convinces him to live a little, and go after Ronnie, the girl who recently trampled his about-to-expire heart. [...]

Tags: dating, death, friendship, humor
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Self-proclaimed nobody CG Silverman sees her move to an upscale new school as her chance to be somebody different. Her devil-may-care attitude attracts the in-clique, and before CG realizes it, a routine game of truth or dare launches her to iconic status. While this rebel image helps secure CG’s newfound popularity, it also propels her [...]

Tags: friendship, high schools, humor, identity, secrets, self-perception, sex
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It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad [...]

Tags: child abuse, coming of age, family problems, fathers and sons, homosexuality, humor, interpersonal relations
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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. –From Goodreads Two [...]

Tags: homosexuality, humor, interpersonal relations, romance, theater
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