Please ignore Vera Dietz

"It's one thing if he wants to ignore it. I guess that's fine. I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I try to slink through the halls unnoticed. But there's something about telling other people what to ignore that just doesn't work for me. Especially things we shouldn't be ignoring. 

Kid bullying you at school? Ignore him. Girl passing rumors? Ignore her. Eighth grade teacher pinch your friend's ass? Ignore it. Sexist geometry teacher says girls shouldn't go to college because they will only ever pop out babies and get fat? Ignore him. Hear that a girl in my class is being abused by her stepfather and had to go to the clinic? Hear she's bringing her mother's pills to school and selling them to pay for it? Ignore, ignore, ignore. Mind your own business. Don't make waves. Fly under the radar. It's just one of those things, Vera. I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right."

This is the first book I read after my exam, it was good but it wasn't that good. But one thing's for sure its really something teens and young adults can relate to. Life is bumpy and teenage years can be hell. Everyone around in school is trying to become somebody and people are constantly in a fight with themselves, it just makes matters worst for the people around them. Vera Dietz is a good kid, though her life hasn't been very easy, I really loved her dad, though I found her friend Charlie to be a maniac to be quite honest but yeah like I said, the story is still good.

Somewhere along the line, I want to write a young adult novel, I just want to write something that kids can relate to, so that they know that yeah life is crappy but you have to keep going anyway. That friends are important and so is family but what's most important is to figure out who you really are and what you want to be.  

Sometimes, you really wish life came with an instruction booklet, or that we just signs from somewhere like no, turn back. The outcome is not worth it or keep going, things will get better in a week but then I guess we wouldn't learn, and what would be the fun in that? :)