DREAM SCHOOL (FIGMENT, 2011) IS THE SEQUEL TO GIRL BY BLAKE NELSON. '“Dream School” is first and foremost an enduring account of what it looks, feels and sounds like to be young.' - The New York Times
If these women wanted boyfriends they should just get one and stop analyzing everything. It wasn’t really that complicated. I guess I agreed with her. And yet, I was one of those women.
Dream School//Blake Nelson (via youngadultbookquotes)
aubrey plaza as andrea marr
But other times I had the feeling I was supposed to be apart from things and seeing things in a bigger way, like I was supposed to be the recorder of it all - even thought that would probably be a harder life.
dream school/blake nelson (via youngadultbookquotes)
I don’t know if it was meant to be, but did anyone else read this as a Girl prequel? I thought it felt like Nelson was telling Todd Sparrow’s origin story.
This is Buffy, season four but a hell of a lot hipper in language and setting, and without the supportive Scoobies. That search for like-minds who “get it” is, in fact, what drives Andrea as she reaches out further and further from her comfort zone. That she ends up over her head should not surprise readers of Girl, but the journey has always been the destination with Andrea, and again Nelson slams one out of the coming-of-age ballpark.
Colleen Mondor, at Bookslut
MJ WRITING: class
Tonight is my class. I bought a new grey skirt for the occasion. Going to Gap was the high point of my day so far. I don’t know who their new designer is, but it is working. Coral and plaid and V-neck sweaters everywhere, a lesbian’s dream come true. In my class we are going to write about…
“And I put on my dress and looked in the mirror and practiced sneering and looking bored and I was ready!”
Two books-
“one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during the twentieth century”
And “catcher in the rye for the grunge generation”
But it seemed so hopeless because I had already changed so much and broken so many pacts and it just seemed like the older you got the more corrupt you became and really, if you thought about it, in terms of your morals and stuff: you were dying from the day you were born.
Girl//Blake Nelson (via foreveraflower)
