A light-hearted romp(although with a darker theme featuring a couple of young gun toting robbers) taking in the demise of record stores, the rise of downloading culture, music blogs and young love.Allie our young protagonist is a likeable record store clerk navigating her parent's divorce and bot...
Dialogue after reading this book:Teenage Me: OMG I loved it!Reviewer Me: What? WHY?Teenage Me: Uh, why not?Reviewer Me: Oh, so you want the list? Firstly, the plot...TM: Was so good! It was relatable, musical, cute...RM: Sure, it was cute and easy, but it kept going off on weird plot twists.TM: W...
When I first started this book I was concerned about the amount of issues crammed into the story. I thought there was no way that Prinz was going to be able to address all these issues. I was wrong. This teen romance is framed within a tragedy that happens outside of the main characters' control....
When I listen to this LP, recorded in 1979, I try to imagine what her life must have been like then. After building a career on sounding fresh and young and folksy, her voice was now raspy and world-weary from years of drug use. She sounds raw and damaged. This album makes me curl into a ball. It...
I sat at the kitchen table, lost in thought, but then I took my laptop into Lucky’s room. Rocket was still on a date with Fin. My mom was still out in her studio and my dad was at the farm. The house was quiet. There were bits of Rocket’s fur on the quilt in the shape of a curled-up dog. No one b...