I love Rob Thomas's (who created Veronica Mars) versions of high school. Everyone is just a little smarter and quicker than in real high school, especially Steve, the gifted student who wastes his potential until a guidance counselor steps in. But the relationships depicted felt genuine--between Steve and his fist girlfriends, between Steve and his friends in the Grace Order of Dadaists, and between Steve and his father, the emotionally distant astronaut.

Also now I want to watch Veronica Mars again.

I'm just going to put this out here: for a graphic novel starring WOLVERINE and GAMBIT, this was pretty weaksauce. Come on. Kick it up a notch.

Cute! Super quick read. I want to read the next volume but not desperately.

I dug it. Basically my review of Volume 3 holds for this one. Except I will also add, nice job with Spider-Man.

Oof. So good. I love Satrapi's brutal honesty. I love her honest assessment of the nihilist punks and of her own struggle and her family. I love her art.

Super cute and funny! A Wild West retelling of Rapunzel where Rapunzel actually, you know, does stuff. She escapes with no help from the prince (who's a wuss) but later teams up with Jack (of Beanstalk fame) on an adventure to determine the source of the witch's power and how to defeat her. Great illustrations, too.

OK. I wanted to like this. I came into this siding with the book, because I was all riled up about it getting kicked off of Bitch Magazine's list of YA books for feminist readers, on account of, uh, all the rape. And I'm not like a huge fan of rape or anything, but I think it's a topic that can be handled well in YA books (see: [b:Speak|439288|Speak|Laurie Halse Anderson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1298540261s/439288.jpg|118521]). But my main problem with this book was that it was so boring and slow-paced! It was over 400 pages long and I feel like this story could have been told in 200 pages. Like, perhaps the rape (especially the book's ending) was problematic. But mainly, the parts where the protagonists are in their safe, magical heaven are boring and go on for way too long. I get it, I get it, you have to choose between your safe magical world where nothing happens, or the dangerous real world where you can have true friendships but also have to face danger. But to make that point I do not think there needed to be quite so many chapters in the super boring magical world.

I mean whatever. I give props to her for the unique voice of the book, and I even agree with the book's thesis. But I did not enjoy the experience of reading this book.

Oh and I bitched about this book on Twitter and Margo Lanagan retweeted it and made me feel bad about myself. But then she replied nicely to my apology. I still feel kind of tense about it. Is she on GoodReads?

OMG. So creepily prescient. Brilliant.

I stayed up way too late reading this and then when I woke up I immediately grabbed it to keep reading. Very engrossing. A very funny and realistic high school experience, except with a Groundhog's Day (the movie, not the holiday) twist. Sam has to keep repeating the day before she dies in a car accident, and, well, I don't want to give anything away, but she learns a lot as she explores different paths she could take. Weirdly, it felt much more realistic than the thematically-similar [b:Thirteen Reasons Why|1217100|Thirteen Reasons Why|Jay Asher|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181958465s/1217100.jpg|2588213], although Before I Fell has a fantasy element that 13 Reasons doesn't. My favorite book in some time.

I loved this book intensely in high school and just re-read it for my YA lit class. It held up really well. I'd forgotten enough of the plot that it was still surprising. I remember the later books in the series getting really strange, but this one is so intense and compelling. Definitely check it out if you didn't read it in high school.