![]() Is it probably not appropriate to feel this way about a fictional character’s suicide contemplations, but with material like this I couldn’t help it: “I could overdose on pills, but I remembered, as I went through the bathroom cabinets, that my dad doesn’t keep many pills in the house. Somehow, Sales has managed to make this section both achingly heartbreaking and… quirkily funny. On the first day of school, Elise feels like her plan has failed when things don’t quickly turn around, and… She studies ‘in’ celebrities, trendy clothes, and popular TV shows and movies Elise, however, cannot bring herself to listen to pop music, and she clings fiercely, but secretly, to her Pixies and LCD Soundsystem. Before her sophomore year, Elise decides to take on her own popularity as a sort of summer project and she sets off to become versed in mainstream pop culture. In a refreshingly funny but sad voice, Elise Dembowski describes her life as a high school student who just doesn’t fit in. ![]() ![]() It was probably my favorite read of 2013. I know my review won’t do this amazing little book full justice. ![]() Happy New Year! I think it’s pretty fitting that my review of This Song Will Save Your Life will be my first post of 2014. ![]()
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