{"id":1145,"date":"2011-02-08T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2011-02-08T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T02:49:25","slug":"things-i-like-dramarama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/things-i-like-dramarama\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Like: Dramarama"},"content":{"rendered":"

I planned on giving this book a shout-out at some point or another, but now seems like a particularly good time, as I just had the pleasure of listening to its author, E. Lockhart<\/a>, share her wisdom about writing and publishing at Kindling Words<\/a> a couple weekends back. <\/p>\n

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I’ve read all of Emily’s YA novels, and adore all of them, but Dramarama<\/i> was my first and remains my particular favorite. It doesn’t seem to get nearly as much love as the Ruby Oliver books or The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks<\/i>, which makes me want to talk about its awesomeness even more. <\/p>\n

What makes Dramarama<\/i> so awesome? Well, there’s the incredibly authentic voice of its narrator, Sadye, who is smart and funny and dissatisfied and complicated in all sorts of wonderful ways. There is her devoted-but-far-from-perfect relationship with her best friend, Demi, who is black and openly gay and a complete and engaging character, never a message or a token. There’s the unique setting at a summer drama camp. But most of all, there’s the ending, which I can’t say much about without spoiling, but I love love love that it doesn’t shy away from the reality of Sadye’s situation to force a happy ending, and I think it is happier because it is real.<\/p>\n

Want to check out the book for yourself? Leave a comment on this entry by the end of Friday, February 11, and I will send a copy to one commenter!<\/b><\/p>\n

Selected by random draw, open to readers from all countries.<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I planned on giving this book a shout-out at some point or another, but now seems like a particularly good time, as I just had the pleasure of listening to its author, E. Lockhart, share her wisdom about writing and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}