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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI will share what I am reading right now even though it is embarrassing. I’m reading this YA series called Heck about these teens/tweens who die and go to Limbo/Hell for kids and try and break out. It has some hysterical references, ie. Ethics taught by Nixon and such. I have a pile of books to read and I don’t know what to go for next… Water…[Read more]
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Shystraddlers 12 years, 4 months ago
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YA should never be embarrassing.
Ok, true, I enjoy YA… but this is younger than most I would read… and not at all queer like most YA I read. But the series was recommended by a bookstore employee as being one adults could find humor in, and I’m in the mood to read a book I don’t have to think about.
I was going to go on about how it’s neat how sometimes good YA gets to say things that adult books don’t, and even though the voice can seem false, the message can be better/truer. And then I looked up that series and saw the words “marshmallow bear explosion.” Which is clearly the truest experience of all. (Though I have heard very very good…[Read more]
Yes, they die initially in a marshmallow explosion. And it’s so full of puns, this series! The third book just came out in paperback and I got it for free, so I’m going to be starting it shortly.