Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Sorry, you kind of need a magnifying glass to see this picture, but it's the only one I could find.
It's Teen Angst?Naaah..., author Ned Vizzini's autobiography. I finished reading it yesterday, and ohmyword it's so great. It takes you event-by-event through his Junior High and High School years, and man! the dude is hysterical.
Let's face it-we all had those awful years of development when we obsessed over something, anything. For Ned it was video games, for me it was certain fantasy-fiction works. Those years were there, we can't deny them, though we can try (really hard) to forget. Mr. Vizzini writes us through those awful years, poking fun at himself, and the laughable way he coped with everything. It's so great to hear someone else look at life and know that it's not some tight rope that you have to walk perfectly. He makes fun of himself, and his high school, and his decisions, and really comes out ahead for his honesty. I recommend (obviously).





Lydia

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