I was originally planning on reading FALLOUT, the sequel to CRANK and GLASS, but I had trouble really getting into the new perspective of the book which is from the outlook of Kristina's three children.
I started to read Go Ask Alice instead. So far I haven't learned much about it except for that the main character has purchased a diary in hope that it will help her vent about her life as a fifteen year old. She has so far written about how sick of her old hometown she is and now is moving to a different state with her family. She hopes to find a new beginning at her new home and a fresh start from her boring home now.
(The book Go Ask Alice is completely anonymous, and is written in diary format.)
Blast from the past. This book, Brooke, was THE BIG DRUG BOOK for my generation. This and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (for depressed teens). There were no other books dealing with that issue...which was obviously an issue we knew about, many of us having been raised by hippies with lax attitudes toward herbal refreshment.
ReplyDeleteIn some ways, I wonder if our innocent semi-ignorance was better, or worse?