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12/07/2004: "A Dance for Three? Please spare me..."
I was sitting in the library at lunch today, like I usually do. I reached into my bookbag to pull out a book. I purposely left America: the book, at home today. But I thought I still had "First French Kiss" to read. See, out library has an epidemic, as I like to call it. Our fiction section should be known as the Teen Angst section. No, seriously.
I didnt have a book though, so I was deserpate, and I wandered into the fiction section. Yes, I do judge books by the cover...and the title and the author. Well, I spotted a book on the end, which a seminice cover, and an ok title and I picked it up. I had never heard of the author, but what the heck, its only lunch. So I sat down with this book.
The book is called A Dance for Three. I was expecting something like girl loves two boys one boy likes the girl, the other totally ignores her...ect. I can stomach that for a lunch period. But no...I started reading this one. The first sentence should of tipped me off.
"Milo wasn't the first boy to kiss me but he was the first one to bite me."
THAT should of told me something right there. But no, I kept on. Eventually little miss poor 15 year old has sex with a wonderful handsome rich 17 year old. They 'love' each other and he is all over her ever chance he gets. Then *gasp* she gets pregnant! Her mother finds out and all she can say is "I cant believe this is happening to ME!" To her? I thought it was the daughter...in fact it is. Then the pregnant girl has to take care of her self absorbed mother because her father died from hiccuping. I mean, she literaly cooks her mothers meals, goes grocery shopping, ect. All the while her mother is jobless. Ok, quacked up enough yet?
Nope! Gets better, she tells the father. The boy throws her against a dumpster and beats her. And of course tells her that 'its YOUR problem, not mine'. How stupid. Then she hears him having sex WITH HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND. NOW its screwed up.
And the bell rang. This is withen the first 60 pages. It is *messed* up. And this stuff is in our library. Now someone answer me this, what kind of teenager reads this stuff for enjoyment, and not just some random book? Who would actually *pay* to read this? Its SO depressing. And its like, suicidal material. And its labeled under teen fiction in our library. Yes this stuff does happen, but *who* wants to read about it? So excuse me while I go vomit, im sure there is a book in the library about a girl who is a dancer and wants to just be 'thin.' I swear they are becoming more and more like 'how-to' guides these 'teen' books.