I am a self-proclaimed bookslut. I love the library. I love bookstores. love AMAZON.COM. I really I even love garage sales that have lots of books. Possibly the only things I love as much as books are purses, and they are frivolous and impractical.
From time to time I will read a book that really sticks to my ribs. The latest on is called High Before Homeroom. I thought it would be a flaky YA novel, and on one level it was. But it went so much beyond that, I nearly forgot that layer of it. Maya Sloan is the author, and she hits the nail on the proverbial head with her depiction of mediocrity, those of us who are bored with our own mediocrity, and the responses to it. Its almost like she has lived it.
This novel is wonderfully written, wonderfully executed, and suprisingly not as far-fetched as one might expect. (A lot of YA novels are.) Bravo, Ms. Sloan. You rocked my world, and nobody has done that for a while.
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