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Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley
3.0

This came across my desk by accident--it had been ordered by our adult fiction buyer but our TS department assumed it was for teen. I can see why, and I'm debating ordering another copy for teen. I definitely think it would have a lot of teen appeal, although the jokes are most squarely aimed at post-college life. There are a few jokes that are a little bit adult (the word "sexting" is used) but I don't think there's anything in here that's more explicit than say, a [a:Lauren Myracle|157676|Lauren Myracle|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1224298383p2/157676.jpg] novel.

I hadn't heard of the Fairy Tales for Twentysomethings blog before, but this is that blog in book form. Like a lot of blogs in book form, I think this is the kind of thing that's absolutely cute and charming on Tumblr, but when you sit down and read a whole book of it, it's like, yeah, okay, I get it, what if fairy tale characters had Facebook.

Still, there are a lot of solidly funny jokes in here, and the artwork is adorable.