{"id":6365,"date":"2015-08-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2023-04-01T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:29:45","slug":"every-last-word-by-tamara-ireland-stone-book-review-can-poetry-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"Every Last Word, by Tamara Ireland Stone (book review) – can poetry save your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookDig and dig and dig to answer a question,
\nSwim to the right rhythm (always in lane 3),
\nKeep obsessions hidden from everyone, always…<\/p>\n

Most folks toss around “OCD” for any neat-freak behavior, but Pure-O (Purely Obsessional) OCD<\/a> isn’t that at all. Reading Sam’s tumblr<\/a> gives glimpses into the teen’s life, worries, and soul-searching.<\/p>\n

This strong book was published in June, so your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore <\/a>should have it for you now. Stone wrote it based a young woman that she knew, then fact-checked all behaviors and responses with mental health professionals to bring us a very true Sam.<\/p>\n

Venture down the stairs, into the Poet’s Corner – will you bare your soul and share your thoughts with others?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Every Last Word \/ Tamara Ireland Stone. Little Brown, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Sam keeps her obsessional OCD and her at-school persona separate until she is befriended by Caroline and dares to share in the hidden Poet’s Corner.<\/p>\n

Her best friends are the Crazy Eights, the popular, snarky girls at their high school –\u00a0 Samantha can never let them know about her obsession with 3s or the dark thoughts that careen through her head.<\/p>\n

She could never tell the Eights about her new-found friendship with smart and unstylish Caroline or share with her therapist her growing attraction to the guitar-playing guy in the Poet’s Corner – why not?<\/p>\n

As the poets share their deep feelings and funny reactions to life, Sam discovers her own voice and realizes that she’s grown away from the Crazy Eights – but will she be able to cope with the bullying that her long-time friends will surely unleash if she leaves them?<\/p>\n

If only life at school were as simple as swimming to beat her best time in the summer…
\nIf only she could control her obsessional thoughts and be normal…
\nIf only she could glue all her worries onto a wall and leave them, as her new friends do when they paper the walls of the Poet’s Corner with their writings…<\/p>\n

Friendship, romance, poetry, becoming your own self – Every Last Word<\/em>\u00a0 that Sam writes in her color-coded notebooks comes from her heart.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dig and dig and dig to answer a question, Swim to the right rhythm (always in lane 3), Keep obsessions hidden from everyone, always… Most folks toss around “OCD” for any neat-freak behavior, but Pure-O (Purely Obsessional) OCD isn’t that at all. Reading Sam’s tumblr gives glimpses into the teen’s life, worries, and soul-searching. This […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,4,11,20,5,37,16,18,44,43,39,27,96,93,15,9,21,35,33,3,8,61],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"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\/6365","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=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13743,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/13743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}