You were racing in a car beside a boy you just don't know

(remember when I was all like, I'm gonna review books here? Well, here we go...)
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

Anderson has written 3 other YA books, and I've read 2 of them. I HATED Catalyst, for a bunch of reasons I don't remember any more. The main character was too selfish and whiny, I think. And not just normal selfish and whiny. Part of it, too, was that I've always always disliked perfectionists. You know, the kids who cry if they don't get a 4.0. The valedictorians who go nuts. This girl only applies to, Harvard, I think, and then I believe the readers are supposed to feel sympathetic when she doesn't get in and is therefore screwed. Of course, I only applied to one school as well, but it was a fairly easy school to get into, and I was a year younger than normal, and the tuition remission and all that. There's a huge difference between only applying to Pitt and only applying to Big Fancy Ivy. Also, I'm sick of books where there's a supporting character who's a poor kid with all these problems but the main character finds that person's heart of gold and learns something, and that's pretty much what I got out of Catalyst.

--Work related interruption: I may have to throw those 2 kids out. It's too nice out for them to be that stircrazy inside. Go run around outside, dammit!--

Fever 1793, or some such year, I haven't read, but I used to confuse it with Running Out of Time by Haddix, which I have read, and which is great, and is the book that people have accused Shamalan of ripping off with The Village. I don't think he did, any more than EdTV (that was the name of that movie, right? Matthew McCaughnahy, who I need to stop bringing up in my blog?) ripped off The Truman Show. The central idea both had can be done so many ways.

Then there's Speak, which is really good and powerful. It's about a 9th grade girl who, right before school started, went to a party and got raped by a big popular upperclassman. She stops speaking (hence the title). It's something that could be so heavyhanded and pre--

I wrote this whole huge thing and was on a roll and accidentally clicked "recover post", leading me to lose over half my goddamn post, so, suffice to say, Prom's a good, funny book for lots of reasons that are now lost to the stupid fucking internet.
Hate.