false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792799m/5644891.jpg 5644891 3 Remember that book you read at that time in your life when everything seemed to be going crazy-the one book that brought the world into focus and helped soothe your raging teenage angst? 5816338 1 6 2009 Shelf Discovery total:220|5:43|4:90|3:65|2:19|1:3| 220 811 694 117 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 19:29:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 19:43:19 -0800 2009 The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, A Reading Memoir) because we have a bad habit of sharing library books. I had read Jezebel's Fine Lines column and come across this title somewhere, and when Stacey put it into my very hands I could not resist w...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 20:42:51 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 20:47:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:14:16 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:31:34 -0800 2009 Secret Lives was the book I had read ages and ages ago and forgotten the name of. I did a little poking around and realize that that book had been recently mentioned by the author of this book in an NPR int...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:37:37 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:01:57 -0700 2009 I was a fan of Fine Lines on when it first appeared on Jezebel and I have been so eagerly awaiting this ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 11:22:06 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 11:32:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 18:51:08 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 18:57:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:27:09 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:28:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:15:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:51:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 26 07:58:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 08:20:06 -0700 2009
Well, it turns out that pretty much every woman you know has read them too, and loved them just as much as you did. Here, Lizzie Skurnick discusses some of the best-known selections from yo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 25 21:08:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 19:18:37 -0700 2009
I cannot even articulate the, speaking absolutely literally, visceral response I had to this book.

It made me miss my sister even more than I already miss her almost every single day; it was from her that many classic works of "young adult" lit came into m...more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon May 11 05:53:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 05:54:34 -0700 2009 http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/...

Launched from her regular feature column “Fines Lines” for Jezebel.com, this spastically composed, frequently hilarious omnibus of meditations on favorite YA novels dwells mostly among the old-school titles from th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:02:28 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 11:53:33 -0700 2009 Jezebel.com column and in this book, is that she rereads classic teen lit and writes about it. Of course I am intensely jealous of her that she does this and gets paid for it, but that did not decrease my enjoyment of this book. I even liked reading about the boo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:33:58 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 19:50:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 16:17:41 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 05:54:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 18:45:25 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 18:49:50 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 11:11:44 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 11:50:56 -0700 2009
This book is a much appreciated expansion of the author's "Fine Lines" column found on Jezebel.com and it is SO MUCH FUN. Brief essays (a bit of a stretch: maybe meditations?) on the era of YA novels from the 70s to late 80's. SO MUCH FUN...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Sep 02 07:54:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 11:13:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 16:23:39 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 10:47:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 06:34:55 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 06:37:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 21:36:18 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 16:37:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5644891