High school comedies are my jam. As a child of the 90s, movies like Can’t Hardly Wait, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Get Over It, Bring It On, Stick It, and Dead Poets Society are my jam. Books like Space Station Seventh Grade (Jerry Spinelli’s first novel) and This Side of Paradise were formative. Even though I’m a bona fide adult now with a family of my own, I still have a soft spot for movies like The DUFF and Dope. The appeal […]
Supernatural high school drama isn’t all that different from regular teen drama
Sophie Mercer is a witch and because of the various bad incidents her magic has gotten her mixed up in, she and her mum have moved a lot during her lifetime. After Sophie seriously misjudges the oomph of a love spell at her current high school’s prom, and there is a huge scene, Sophie’s normally absentee father, a European warlock of some kind, gets involved. Sophie is sent off to a boarding school. On a remote island, where she will stay until she graduates at […]
“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
My first introduction to Stephanie Perkins was last years’ holiday anthology My True Love Gave To Me, which she both edited and contributed to. Her story, It’s a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown was my favorite of the group and I find myself thinking of its characters, Marigold and North, every so often six months later. Her characters were vibrant and their dialogue rang true. It really was a lovely story and I’m hoping that her contribution to 2016’s Summer Days, Summer Nights is a continuation […]
March (Book 1): An Origin Story
What’s hard for kids to recognize – hell, what’s hard for people to recognize – is that we’re living through history right this minute. That, someday, there’s going to be a kid, bored of his mind, doodling in the margins of his brain tablet (or whatever space technology kids are learning on in the future), barely listening to his teacher drone on and on about ‘the geopolitical ramifications of US drone strikes in 2014’ or – in deference to today’s book – ‘Let’s compare and […]