Yes, "best ass" and "freshman class" DO rhyme. Good observation.

I'm reading this young adult book, Thirteen Reasons Why. It's the story of a high school boy listening to tapes made by a girl who committed suicide. It's a very good book--good characters, great plot. I'm about a third of the way through and have no idea where it's going.

I got the book out of the library, which is adding another layer to this experience, because someone who read this before me wrote notes in the margins. She's clearly a teenager, from the comments (and female from the handwriting). And I'm loving seeing her comments. Now I know how the target audience feels about it all.

It seems clear that she wanted other people to read this. I mean, first of all, writing in a library book. But this was hammered home by what I just ran across: She wrote something, and erased it. She'll write that Skye is a cute name, and that she had this "epic hang out" with someone, but she erased that a character who decided to stop wanting to be part of anything sounded kind of like her. And yet, having the entire school calling the main character a slut wasn't that bad--not bad enough to cause the character to kill herself ("I mean, what happened sucks, but life goes on...").

It's intriguing, and I'm looking forward to continuing reading this book with some company.