<data:blog.pageTitle/>

This Page

has moved to a new address:

http://readeroffictions.com

Sorry for the inconvenience…

Redirection provided by Blogger to WordPress Migration Service
A Reader of Fictions: My Life in YA Book Titles

A Reader of Fictions

Book Reviews for Just About Every Kind of Book

Monday, August 19, 2013

My Life in YA Book Titles

Yet again, I've been stalking Jamie's blog, The Perpetual Page-Turner and she has yet another awesome survey thing, and I want to be part of the fun. This time, we're talking about your teen selves with book titles. I expect this to be difficult but SO. MUCH. FUN. Anyway, check out Jamie's original post here.

How would you describe your 16 year old self? The Off Season  - High school was not a good time for me. Haha.
When You Looked Into The Mirror What Did You SeeTen Things I Hate About Me  - Self-loathing, etc.
Your 16 your old self outlook on life/motto: All I Want Is Everything - If I just tried hard enough, surely everyone would appreciate me and life would be perfect
How You Think People Would Describe Your Personality: User UnfriendlyI can be a lot to take
Describe An Insecurity In High School: The DUFF - What friends I had were generally prettier, so what if I was just there to make them look better by comparison?  
Describe Your Worst Trait As A Teen: Hate List - Yeah, I pretty much hated everyone else as much as I hated myself.
Describe the contents of your diary/journal: Sucks to Be Me - Endless raging/wallowing, which is why I never took to journaling - even teen me knew that the diary entries were not representative.
Your biggest Fear:One Hundred Years of Solitude - Never being loved.
You excelled at: Mind Games - Reading.
You were always concerned about: How to Be Popular - *sighs* Such a cliche.
=You Thought Your Life Was: More Than This - Or, at least, it should be.

Love Life:


How would you sum up your high school love life? The Art of Wishing - As in wishing to have a love life.
Describe your most serious boyfriend from high school?  Imaginary Men - No boyfriends in high school, so...
Describe your first kiss: Not Exactly a Love Story - Not all it was cracked up to be.
Your philosophy on dating/love: Born of Illusion - I had crushes on EVERYONE.
Describe Your Worst Break Up: Over You - Not really had a bad break up, but having to dump someone because the feelings are gone is always awkward.



Family

Your relationship with your mom as a teen: Never Enough - Mom was a motivated student and liked to tell me how she was a valedictorian. Me, not so much.
Your relationship with your dad as a teen: One Plus One Equals Blue - We're similar in a lot of ways, but also often totally on the wrong wavelength and can't communicate effectively.
Your relationship with a sibling: Fat Cat - Only sibling was my cat, Tiger. Only child!
What you thought about your parents rules/parenting style: A Family of Readers To be positive on this list for once, my parents raised me to be a reader and I've always been grateful for that.


Friends:

Describe you and your best friend at 16: Sidekicked - I was her sidekick, but I don't mind that.
Your Social Status: The Rules for Disappearing - Trying to be unobtrusive enough that people would let me sit near them in class and at lunch.
Describe Your Group Of Friends: One Lonely Degree - In junior and senior year, things improved when I made one really good friend. She was my one connection to a social life.


School:

Your Perception Of High School Upon Entering: The Summer I Turned Pretty - Basically, over the summer before freshman year, I got a bit thinner, changed my style, and started straightening my hair, so I thought everything would change. Spoiler: it didn't.
Your relationship with academics: Deadline - Get shit done, but only at the last minute.
Your Weekends Were: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder - Reading, reading, reading.
If Your High School Life Was A Movie It would be called: Don't Expect Magic - Because there won't be any.
A Class You Wish High School Would Have Offered: The Realm of Possibility - Teach me what I could actually be; don't tell me that I can do anything if I try hard enough.
Your Senior Year Was: The Secret Year I did a few things my parents didn't know about and wouldn't have approved of with my friend that year.
Describe prom: The Vast Fields of Ordinary - Didn't go. Stayed home and read like any other night.
When High School Ended It Was: Bitter End - Can you tell I was bitter?


The Future

How You Felt About The Prospect of College: Out of This Place - Woo! New people! New places! New opportunities!
How You Thought Your Life Would Be At 25: All I Ever Wanted - Totally was my version of "Thirty, Flirty and Thriving." Teen me would not be impressed with where I am now, but I'm cool with it.


Your Life Now:

Describe Your Love Life Now: Wasteland - Bahaha. No love life.
Describe The State Of Your Friendship With Your High School BFF: The Distance Between Us - She lives in NYC, but at least I get to see her for BEA!
Your Relationship With Your Parents Now: Be More Chill - So much better now that they can't tell me what to do really.
Your Thoughts On Your High School Reunion (either if you had it or if it’s upcoming): What I Was - I don't know that I'll go, because I might revert a bit to my old self and you can see why I wouldn't want that.
Biggest Lesson You Learned In High School: Live Through This More like, I made it through middle school, so I would get through this too.
One Thing You WISHED You Had Learned: The F- It List I don't give a fuck about the people who don't like me.
Advice You Wish You Could Have Given Your Teen Self: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - You'll turn out mostly alright in the end.
Something You Could Learn From Your 16 Year Old Self: Major Crush - How to not be so picky about guys. I mean, I don't want to be THAT not-picky, but younger me was more open to possibility.

Well, that was a bit embarrassing. But now you know what I was like in the past. Scary, is it not?

Labels:

3 Comments:

Blogger Christina Reads YA said...

"How would you describe your 16 year old self? The Off Season - High school was not a good time for me. Haha." <-- Me neither. I don't understand when people say it was so good.

"When You Looked Into The Mirror What Did You See: Ten Things I Hate About Me - Self-loathing, etc." <-- Me too. Having three older brothers did not help.

"Describe An Insecurity In High School: The DUFF - What friends I had were generally prettier, so what if I was just there to make them look better by comparison?" <-- Prettier. More outgoing. Less awkward. This book so worked because it was so easy to fall into that concept.

"Your biggest Fear:One Hundred Years of Solitude - Never being loved." <-- Yep. S'why Teen Me fell for that Twilight stage.

"You Thought Your Life Was: More Than This - Or, at least, it should be." <-- this is me like 24/7. The life of a dreamer on repeat.

"Describe your first kiss: Not Exactly a Love Story - Not all it was cracked up to be." <-- YES, YA HEROINES, WHY DON'T YOU EVER REALIZE THIS?

"Your philosophy on dating/love: Born of Illusion - I had crushes on EVERYONE." WHY ARE OUR EXPERIENCES SO SIMILAR. I've had a crush on someone new nearly every year since like first grade. o.O

"Your relationship with a sibling: Fat Cat - Only sibling was my cat, Tiger. Only child!" <-- Pfft. Pffffffft. I wish I could have considered Skittles and Shadow my siblings o.O.

"A Class You Wish High School Would Have Offered: The Realm of Possibility - Teach me what I could actually be; don't tell me that I can do anything if I try hard enough." <-- NOT JUST IN HIGH SCHOOL. LIFE. I'm still trying to figure this one out.

"Your Senior Year Was: The Secret Year I did a few things my parents didn't know about and wouldn't have approved of with my friend that year." <-- ME TOO. Also known as sneaking into the house via the garage door and lying about it the next day! Woo!

"Describe prom: The Vast Fields of Ordinary - Didn't go. Stayed home and read like any other night." <-- Prom was so not worth it; be glad you didn't waste your money. I wish I had read instead.

"How You Felt About The Prospect of College: Out of This Place - Woo! New people! New places! New opportunities!" <-- AAAAAAAAAAA reading this makes me so nostalgic for that feeling again.

"Your Relationship With Your Parents Now: Be More Chill - So much better now that they can't tell me what to do really." <-- So lucky. Mine still try. I'm nearly 22, and up until last year, my mother would *still* wait up for me at night.

So, Christina. There's a bit about the past of another Christina :P. And I have a feeling this comment is super long, so I'm going to sneak away now...

August 19, 2013 at 2:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another one to add to my to-do list ;)
-Krys

August 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM  
Blogger bebelllllllll said...

I CAN RELATE.

August 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM  

Post a Comment

Every comment is appreciated and I will almost always respond, because I love conversing about books!

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home