TMI
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
An entertaining and relatable young adult novel for the digital age where a misunderstood teenager finds solace in an online persona.
TMI—the most dreaded phrase in all the land for Becca, also known as the Overshare Queen.
Becca’s tendency for oversharing—confessing all of her business to anyone willing to listen—never seemed like a problem to her until she gets into series trouble blabbing about her sweet, band-geek boyfriend’s sloppy kisses. Becca wonders: is it better to resist the temptation to talk? Can she break her overshare addiction? And how does someone kick a lifelong TMI habit? She simply must spill, but rather than 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 she knows is actually going to read it, right?
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In Quigley's first book, the heroine is an "overshare artist": Becca cannot keep her thoughts to herself. Living in Pine Prairie, Minn., where "everyone sticks their cold, sniffling noses in each other's business," Becca finds herself the catalyst of many dramas, especially after she creates a blog, Too Much Information, where under the name Bella, she records her (thinly veiled) fantasy version of her high school life ("Bella's greatest worry is that if she doesn't confess her deepest desires and choicest bits of gossip, she may explode, leaving her parents to clean up the gory mess"). Predictably, Becca's blog doesn't stay secret for long, causing additional turmoil among her friends and enemies alike. While Becca's personality can be over-the-top and some characters feel stereotypical (when her friend Jai comes out to her, Becca thinks, "the kick-ass wardrobe, the faux hawk, the love of show tunes, and the advanced baking skills all point the boy away from the path of heterosexuality"), readers seeking breezy but believable teenage drama will find it in spades. Ages 12 up.
