drama written and illustrated by raina telgemeier

NEVER, did I ONCE think, 'Oh my god this is so inappropriate! How could this have an age rating of 10 and up?! This should have a warning label! Parents should know about the deviant sexual behavior this contains! Ugh, I was totally mislead and this was just wrong on so many levels.' I gave this book 2 stars because I thought it was 'just ok.' Here was my thought process while reading it: 'Oh, this is fun, it's reminding me of my time in drama, huh, well, the side love stories are kind of blah and I want to read more about the musical and set design and everything, oh, I totally saw that 'twist' coming, well, this book was ok but I wish it was longer and I wanted more character development and less emphasis on any sort of romance.' Well, go read the top 1 star review here. You might be wondering why the negative reviews made me sad though, since I myself gave this 2 stars. Note: don't even BOTHER with Amazon if you're looking for, lack of a different term, better opinions. What made me sad though, was coming home and reading the negative reviews. Heh, whatever! I finished the whole thing AND kept my heart rate in the 130s the whole time.

I actually rode one of the bikes and was sitting in the front row where people walk past and I probably couldn't have chosen a more children's-looking book.

So I thought I'd bring something easy that didn't require a lot of concentration since they play music in the gym and I normally can't read if I hear music with words, but there was just enough ambient noise for me to block it out. I took this with me to the gym today, I've been going to the gym regularly for the first time in my life to try to correct some injuries instead of succumbing to surgery and I wanted to try to read while exercising. It might be difficult to tell from the page count, but this is actually a graphic novel.

Drama written and illustrated by raina telgemeier