BOREDOM!

This is what my boredom and desire to avoid homework leads to.

This is what I do with my time.

also. I have opted to do the whole one-post-a-day-for-a-month thing in the month of march, so look for that.

Edited: March 1st, 2009

Freaked

In my Children’s Book Publishing class, half the students were assigned to read The Hunger Games, and the other half were assigned to read Graveyard Book.  Unfortuately, I was in the half that was assigned to read Graveyard book; because I had already read it (as had another girl), I was given a different book to read called Freaked by first-time author J.T. Dutton. I have an ARC of it (advance reader’s copy, for those non-publishing-industry folks cuz it doesn’t come out until March 17), and I’m not quite through the first chapter yet. Dutton has a good style and voice, but the subject matter doesn’t quite make sense.

It’s about a prep school teen obsessed with the Grateful Dead. A Grateful Dead book? for teenagers? In 2009?  I barely know anything by the Grateful Dead and I’m 26… It seems a bit out of place to me, and I think the publishers are having problems marketing it to kids, hyping it instead as a “crossover” book.  Dutton certainly could’ve picked a band that more teens could connect with. I think the large pot culture in this book affected her choice of band, plus, as far as I can tell, the book takes place in the early 90′s. I’m only like 30 pages in, so I can’t really comment on the success of her choice.

Edited: March 1st, 2009