i read this one fast (mostly while walking down the street... i may have seen my soulmate by northwestern today... someone else that reads books while walking... heh, i love it)...

i guess some compare it to cather in the rye, and honestly, i don't really remember catcher in the rye since i read it when i was 12... so i don't know if that's accurate or not...

basicaly it's about a girl being who she is. she grows up in florida, she's a lesbian, she has no desire to be a secretary or a wife, she's smart, and she wants to be something. there's discussion of roles and stereotypes in it too, which i really appreciated because i think life is really just to precious to try and form yourself into a role someone else has created for you... there is no set way to be a woman, a southerner, a lesbian, a christian, a certain race, whatever, no one can fit into any one predestined stereotypical role, we are all too amazingly different... ok, that was me going off on a tangent... anyways, i laughed a lot when i was reading and there were sad moments too... i love reading books where the characters just seem so real, so very human...

my favorite line: Damn, I wished the world would let me be myself.