Prom: it's either the highlight of one's high school career or it's a pointless ritual that forced upon teens. My prom was a bit of disaster and rather boring. I totally could have skipped it.
I really, really liked Brian Sloan's A Really Nice Prom Mess. It was funny and sweet and I think it would make a great movie. I'd want to pair this with I love you, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle. Actually, it would fit in well with Paper Towns. Dennis Cooverman has this image of Beth Cooper that's built on fantasy and Q has the same kind of reverence for Margo Roth Speigelman.
I'm having brain block right now. I'm going to have to come back.
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I decided to read Looking for Alaska (Thanks, Joelle!!) after finishing Paper Towns. Now I want to know who is this mysterious, crazy, beautiful girl in John Green's life. It seemed to bother a lot of people that Margo didn't go back with Q after he had come all that way for her but I don't see how else to could have ended.
Q had a very good support system with his friends...they went with him on this adventure but they also pointed out how he was ignoring everything else in favor of the ever elusive Margo Roth Speigelman. Q's parents are also supportive and he seems to talk to them more than other teens we've encountered this semester.
I think we all want these kind of intense friendships where support is always given even if there are disagreements. Q has this kind of friendship with Radar and Ben. Cameron is a little more on his own but he picks up all these people along the way. I really loved Prom Mess. I wish I could have gone to prom with Cam.
I'd like to pair Prom Mess with Freak Show so the similarities between Shane and Flip could be discussed but I wouldn't want to pigeonhole either of these books.
And this is totally random but I think I might want to pair Freak Show with Little Brother. Both characters experience a traumatic event which would make some people want to run and hide and act like it never happened but these two characters decide to fight back and stand up for what they believe in and who they are.
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I threw up at my prom because I had mono! I am so tragic. But people were all, ooh are you drunk? I was like my liver is falling out I can't drink! I just realized just how bad my prom was...damn
ReplyDeleteAww!! My first prom date backed out on me because he had an audition and he was like "I feel bad. My friend would like to go. He didn't get to go to his." So, his friend came with me and he was boring and weird and had frog eyes and he spent the evening talking to someone else's date.
ReplyDeleteThe more I think about Paper Towns, the more I like it, I have to say. Again, I was totally sold on the first half, and then the second sort of fizzled for me. Still, overall I thought it was pretty good.
ReplyDeleteProm Mess is one of my favorite books ever. I still can't believe I actually got a guy to read it, either. It totally was the cover, and he loved it, went around showing it to everyone in the teen room...hilarious!