{"id":9832,"date":"2018-10-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2018-10-09T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:30:15","slug":"teen-tales-of-love-profanity-bullying-friendship-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"Teen tales of Love & Profanity, bullying, friendship, and more (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hardbackTeen angst and adoration,
\nfamily, friends, love, work –
\n40 true stories from authors you know and authors you’ll want to meet.<\/p>\n

The book’s subtitle explains it all: “a Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life” and its subject index includes Stories about… Authority Figures<\/a>, Being Sneaky, Friends-Bad, Friends-Good, and much more.<\/p>\n

You can find this eclectic book at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> as the 2015 hardcover or 2016 paperback (2 different covers).<\/p>\n

What personal story would you be bold enough to share?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Love and Profanity: a Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life \/ edited by Nick Healy, with Kristen Mohn, Nate LeBoutillier, and Lindsy O’Brien. Switch Press, 2015 (hardcover), 2016 (paperback) [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Writers share vignettes from their teen years in this collection of autobiographical short stories, ranging from mild to wild, mundane to life-altering, divided into four “Love and” sections – profanity, physics, madness, and apologies.<\/p>\n

By including YA authors we recognize like Kwame Alexander, Carrie Mesrobian, and Jon Scieszka alongside new-to-us writers like essayist Joey Franklin and science writer Esther Porter, we see a wide range of teen experiences from different genders and sexualities, regions of the US, economic and social conditions, and family configurations.<\/p>\n

The subject index itself portrays teenage life, noting Stories About… Being Helpful (or Not), Bullying, Cars, Crushes, Romance Gone Wrong, Siblings, Struggling to Fit In, Working, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teen angst and adoration, family, friends, love, work – 40 true stories from authors you know and authors you’ll want to meet. The book’s subtitle explains it all: “a Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life” and its subject index includes Stories about… Authority Figures, Being Sneaky, Friends-Bad, Friends-Good, […]<\/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":[157,80,23],"tags":[22,4,197,45,20,5,16,18,44,46,43,39,49,15,9,21,226,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-graphic-novel","category-nonfiction","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-bullying","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-short-stories","tag-surprises","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\/9832","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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9838,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}