fuckyeahsassymagazine:

I just ordered this book and I’m so stoked to read it. I knew nothing of it until I read How Sassy Changed My Life and discovered  it was excerpted in Sassy and became so popular among readers that it was published shortly after. (What can’t they do?)

The author is Blake Nelson, not to be confused with the actor Tim Blake Nelson. I only mention this because I was buggin out for a hot second thinking Tim Blake Nelson was writing young adult novels without my knowledge.

Anyway, I’m sad I didn’t know about this book in Jr. High. I have a feeling Blake Nelson may have rivaled Paula Danziger for my main author jam. I think we should start a youth outreach program that involves sending copies of this to any girl with a copy of Twilight.

This is the only non school book I’ve had the chance to read all year. I KNOW! And I had to wait til Thanksgiving Break, too. It’s been perfect though, I’m almost done, and it makes me like being a teenager because even though it’s mostly awful there’s a place for that awfulness and even a way to celebrate it because eventually you’ll be too old for angst to be charming (I’m pretty sure I’m already too old, but the right side of my brain doesn’t need to hear that.) (I totally had to google which side is the creative, non-logical one.)

Also, there is now a sequel? HEY NOW!