TMI by Sarah Quigley
Synopsis (from product description on amazon.com:
Friends call Becca the Overshare Queen, but her tendency for TMI never seemed like a problem to her until she blabs about her sweet band-geek boyfriend’s sloppy kisses—and gets dumped! Realizing it may be better to resist the temptation to overshare face-to-face, Becca decides to blog anonymously about everything instead. On her blog, Too Much Information, Becca unleashes her alter ego, Bella. Bella tells it like it is . . . though perhaps with a bit more drama. After all, no one’s going to read it, right?
Review:
Despite the fairly simple plot, this book was wonderfully fresh and original. Becca is a truly likeable character, who doesn't mean to open her big mouth as much as she does. Verbal diarrhea is just her nature.
Sarah Quigley gets the teenage angst just right without going over the top into melodrama. Another thing that impressed me about Quigley's writing was her spot-on portrayal of high school theater. Becca's interaction with her friends also reminded me a lot of some of the high schoolers in my youth group.
I think Quigley also hits the nail on the head with her themes of privacy on the Internet/blogs, or the lack thereof.
This is a book that I definitely recommend for its' funny, fresh take on the intense need of our culture to share everything about our lives with immediacy and pretend anonymity.
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