{"id":2849,"date":"2013-10-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2013-10-08T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:53:10","slug":"this-song-will-save-your-life-by-leila-sales-book-review-will-this-change-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2849","title":{"rendered":"This Song Will Save Your Life, by Leila Sales (book review) &#8211; will this change work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2856\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=2856\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"667,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"This Song Will Save Your Life\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2856\" alt=\"book cover of This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales published by Farrar Strauss Giroux\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life-200x300.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/This-Song-Will-Save-Your-Life.jpg?w=667&amp;ssl=1 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/news\/science-news\/2005\/cognitive-therapy-reduces-repeat-suicide-attempts-by-50-percent.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Repeat suicide risk<\/a>,<br \/>\nperennially unpopular girl,<br \/>\nor rave-worthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beginnerdj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DJ<\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\nwhich persona would you choose?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lmYeS4PykN0?rel=0\" height=\"259\" width=\"345\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Widely available at your favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">local library<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a>, <em>This Song Will Save Your Life<\/em> is a Fall 2013 &#8220;Fierce Read&#8221; &#8211; catch Leila Sales at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/author-page\/?aid=5043\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Book Festival<\/a> in Austin at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>What songs are on the playlist that keeps you going when things get rough?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 This Song Will Save Your Life \/ Leila Sales. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013. [<a href=\"http:\/\/leilasales.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/thissongwillsaveyourlife\/LeilaSales\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmYeS4PykN0\" target=\"_blank\">book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: Elise wasn&#8217;t sure what to add to her killing-myself playlist, but never dreamed that she&#8217;d finally find friends through a suicide attempt and music.<\/p>\n<p>Being born unpopular was the problem &#8211; Elise hadn&#8217;t had a friend since grade school, and high school was simply hell. Her remarried mom with the perfect husband and two perfect kids didn&#8217;t see it, her rock musician dad didn&#8217;t see it, so Elise figured why live at all?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, killing herself didn&#8217;t work, made her more of an outcast at school than ever, kept her awake at night. Running in the dark calms her down and one night brings her to a secret dance club in a warehouse. Great DJ, awesome music, folks don&#8217;t mind that she&#8217;s just 16 &#8211; Start is the best thing that ever happened to Elise.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, she lives for Thursday nights at Start (never mind that Mom thinks she&#8217;s asleep upstairs)\u00a0 where Vicki, Pippa, and Char respect her eclectic taste in music, encourage her to try becoming a DJ, and like her for herself &#8211; especially handsome Char.<\/p>\n<p>Secrets can be hard to hide, though, and Elise&#8217;s lack of sleep and dropping grades trip her up (have her folks ever stopped considering her a repeat suicide risk?).<\/p>\n<p>How can she keep DJing at Start?<br \/>\nWhat suddenly made affectionate Char so distant?<br \/>\nWhy is high school so important anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Her dad taught her about all kinds of music, her mom taught her about social activism &#8211; maybe Elise needs her friends at Start to teach her how to live.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat suicide risk, perennially unpopular girl, or rave-worthy DJ &#8211; which persona would you choose? Widely available at your favorite local library or independent bookstore, This Song Will Save Your Life is a Fall 2013 &#8220;Fierce Read&#8221; &#8211; catch Leila Sales at the Texas Book Festival in Austin at the end of October. What songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,4,5,16,18,40,44,43,39,49,86,15,9,21,35,33,3,8],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}