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Everyone's Entitled to Their Own Opinion

Colleen Mondor's new Bookslut column is about various and quite different recent literary attempts to evoke the high school experience. She reviews several YA novels, including Dairy Queen, Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies), Nailed, and others. There is a very kind review of King Dork at the end of the piece. Thanks, Colleen!

I'm also in the current Onion/AV Club's Random Rules, where you put your iPod on shuffle and talk about the songs that come up randomly. The guy said I was one of the only people he has "done" who didn't have Guided by Voices on there. There is Donovan and Rose Tattoo, though.

Otherwise, here's a pretty enthusiastic review from a 15 year old on Flamingnet.com; Library Girl, initially reluctant, finally surrenders herself to the buzz; Holly found it relatable, but supects that Tom might be a "little bit too precocious"; Scott laughed; on the other hand, Emily disagrees, breaking it down like this: "3/4 excellent read, 1/4 sexist bullshit," which is an even worse ratio than Watership Down, apparently; Mike Dirda of the Washington Post says KD doesn't sound like the sort of YA book he would "press on his kids"; and my name comes up rather confusingly in this gmail exchange between the Reader of Depressing Books and internet liter-auteur Noah Cicero.

Also, don't forget: I'm playing at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 14th with Uni and Her Ukelele. Flag Day. Paige's birthday. Come on, it'll be fun. It'll be an acoustic set, but there will be books there and I might read something depending on interest...

Finally, that's Kate in the picture. She has a terrific anecdote about how The Catcher in the Rye set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately end with the purchase of a washer and dryer.

Posted by Dr. Frank at June 7, 2006 08:53 PM | TrackBack