for a sudden, flighty moment

[aamcnamara]

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The night before the Big Climactic Battle (or Appropriately-Coordinated Battles, as the case may be), no one's sure if what they're doing is right, emotions running high... can't back out now, though. And there are some neat little moments that apparently I've been setting up through this whole novel. So that's nice.

Between progress on this novel, learning that I don't completely fail at driving (road test in a week, eep! But I'm less worried after practicing tonight), and Prop 8 being overturned (anyone out there to whom that's news? If there is--yeah, it was)... pretty good day.

Also, I read A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend yesterday/today. It's by Emily Horner and a few years ago it would've totally rocked my world. I've figured out enough about the world and myself by now that it didn't have quite the same effect on me now, but that part of me that's always thirteen or fourteen on the inside (which will always be thirteen or fourteen on the inside) kept shying up to the text and skittering away again as I read, staring.

Queer YA is awesome--this adds in the questioning part, and the part where you aren't even questioning because that question hasn't even occurred to you or because you don't want it to. Wanting things without knowing their names, or thinking about them, or wanting to know their names, because you just can't be there yet.

And then it says that that's okay, and that you can have friends and relationships of all sorts without knowing Absolutely Right Now What You Are Go. Which I think is a really really good message for people to take away from a book, and not one that I see very much.

Additionally, there's a musical about ninjas and a whole bunch of other stuff. (Being a nerd, and not-quite-a-theater-kid--oh, so familiar--as well as, you know, the whole dead-best-friend part. Et cetera.)

Okay, okay, so maybe I'm still going "eeee! They wrote a whole book, just for me!". So sue me.

Comments

[aliseadae]

Why didn't you tell me all that in your emails? or IMs? Now I really want to read it.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Also? There is Billy Collins poetry in it.

[aliseadae]

Oooh.