This one was maybe not quite as funny as [b:Macbeth #killingit|25387441|Macbeth #killingit|Courtney Carbone|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1445274126s/25387441.jpg|45137990] and [b:srsly Hamlet|23743761|srsly Hamlet (OMG Shakespeare)|Courtney Carbone|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1418767865s/23743761.jpg|43357974]--I think the tragedies are funnier in emojis. ([skull emoji]) This was still pretty entertaining though. Like with the others, I think would be best paired with the actual text in classrooms or read by real nerdy nerds.

OOF.

Totes adorbs graphic novel-hybrid! I'm not even mad that I accidentally learned some ocean facts.

Loved this! I think for a lot of kids a book like this--where the Asian protagonist Chloe Cho is outraged that there aren't any sci-fi books with Asian protagonists--might be the first time kids think about or put into words the importance of representation in media. It's also a great, very realistic story about friendship and identity and family secretssss

oh my goshhh

I loved this so much, I love Scarlett so much, this is probably the YA book that I have felt TeenRenata could have most identified with. (The previous thing TeenRenata could have most identified with: Liz Lemon's high school reunion flashbacks on 30 Rock.)

It's so smart and funny and compassionate, not only for Scarlett but also for all of its characters (even when Scarlett herself is not, yet).

It also felt like the most realistic portrayal of online fandom I've seen, including the weirdly-not-creepy online-friend-mentorships that come up between younger and older fans? And also the way Scarlett identifies fandom as being a feminist act of reclaiming--that's something I've seen thinkpieces about but maybe not explicitly addressed in fiction before.

ugh this book is so funny and great, all you nerds should definitely read it

oh my god, this is so funny and weird and sharp. I kept texting random panels to friends while I was reading because some of the jokes were so funny that I just had to share them even out of context. Ben Caldwell's art really sells it too--the newscaster's face when she announces 10 million dead in the Twitter Wars KILLED ME. (Ten million and ONE dead.)

I was sort of familiar with the original Prez series, mainly because it somehow had a crossover with Sandman at some point?! So I know there were a few callbacks to that in the new Prez, but I don't think it really matters if you're not at all familiar with it. I think that any kind of politically-minded teens will be primed to get the world of social-media obsessed corporate personhood that President Beth Ross is fighting against. There are some risque jokes that make it best recommended to teens but they might just go over the head of interested tweens, idk.

I've heard nothing but raves about this series so I was expecting it to be pretty great. GUYS: IT'S PRETTY GREAT.

I love these WWII alternate versions of DC ladies! Even when they are DC ladies I wasn't familiar with before (eg Stargirl, Mera). Definitely goes beyond cute surface level AU and really gets at like...both some of the realities for women in WWII, and also kind of the core values of these superheroes?! Particularly Wonder Woman & why she decides to enter the war <3

SO GREAT even if, like me, you are mostly a casual DC reader.

first things first: the catalyst for this story--that Lara Jean writes these letters to boys she has crushes on to get her feelings out and exorcise the crushes AND THEN SEALS THEM IN ENVELOPES WITH THEIR ACTUAL ADDRESSES WRITTEN ON THEM--doesn't quite add up for me. I mean the first part, yes, but WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THEIR ACTUAL MAILING ADDRESSES ON THEM, LARA JEAN, THAT IS JUST A RECIPE FOR DISASTER?!

anyway once you get past that, I really loved this book and these characters <3 I read the whole thing in one very enjoyable afternoon and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel. It's very sweet and funny and the characters felt so real to me. A great readalike for Sarah Dessen et al. I think it's great for maybe some very studious, rule follow-y teens who might need a gentle reminder to ~live a little~.

I loved the This American Life episode about this story, and I picked up this book at some point when it was a Kindle Daily Deal and never got around to reading it...until now. So I'd kind of forgotten some of the details from the TAL episode, and the book obviously goes into it all in way more depth. And also some MORE stuff happened after the episode was recorded. So it felt pretty fresh to me even though I'd heard a lot of the story before. It's a seriously intense story and I admire all the investigative work Pete Crooks did. But also I kind of didn't care? I'm not a big fan of true crime/mysteries and in retrospect, the This American Life episode had exactly as much detail as I wanted about this. If you are a fan of true crime you might appreciate this book more than me. I definitely highly recommend the This American Life episode though! ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/447/the-incredible-case-of-the-pi-moms )

There's like, a lot going on here. So much that 1990s Earth could not contain it and it spread to the moon and the future. That is just too much happening for my taste.

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-49-x-men-x-cutioners-song/