![]() ![]() ![]() i was carrying u, don't u c?").īut Myracle's triumph in ttyl comes in leveraging the language-stretching idiom of e-mail, text messaging, and IM. i read it in our bodies, ourselves") and the unintentionally hilarious (Maddie's IM reduction of the Christian poem "Footprints"-"oh, no, my son. ![]() ![]() Conversations range from the predictable (clothes, the delicate high-school popularity ecosystem, boys, boys in French class, boys in Old Navy commercials, etc.) to the the jarringly explicit (the girls discuss female ejaculation: "some girls really do, tho. Grownups (and even teenage boys) might feel as if they've intercepted a raw feed from Girl Secret Headquarters, as the book's three protagonists-identified by their screen names "SnowAngel," "zoegirl," and "mad maddie"-tough their way through a rough-and-tumble time in high school. Audacious author Lauren Myracle accomplishes something of a literary miracle in her second young-adult novel, ttyl (Internet instant messaging shorthand for "talk to you later"), as she crafts an epistolary novel entirely out of IM transcripts between three high-school girls.įar from being precious, the format proves perfect for accurately capturing the sweet histrionics and intimate intricacies of teenage girls. ![]()
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