I am currently reading the book Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (the girl who actually wrote it is anonymous). Im a little over half way into it so far and I'm really enjoying it, unlike a lot of books that I read. This book is written in the form of diary entries. Each entry has a date, some passages are only a few paragraphs and others a few pages. I have read many other books in the past that were written in diary entry form. I like reading that type of book the best because it is the style that I prefer most when writing.
The teenage girl in this book becomes addicted to drugs, and lives a very interesting life. The diary entries begin with the girl moving to a new school and feeling like an outcast. She meets a new friend Beth who she spends every day with until the summer when she goes away to summer camp. For the summer the girl moves back to her hometown with her grandparents. She runs into a girl Jill who invited her to a party. At the party they all played a game where some of the drinks had LSD in them. She had one of those drinks. Her diary entry includes vivid detail of the intense trip she experienced. This was interesting to read about because I've never quite herd and understood what the drug actually does to you. Seeing how it is from the person who experienced it for herselfs' point of view was intriguing.
From this experience on the girl starts experimenting with other serious drugs and becomes addicted to her grandparents sleeping pills. As time goes on her friendship with Beth ends, and she starts to hangout with a new crowd of people. She makes a new best friend Chris and they both begin to date college boys Ted and Richie. They start selling drugs for their boyfriends to help them out until they find out that the boys were just using them for money all along. They turn them into the police and then decide to run away to San Francisco. This was my favorite part of the book because my plan is to move to San Francisco or somewhere in California after I am finished with college. They start their own little store and she tells her struggles of how hard it was to earn her own money and live on their own.
During Christmas time the girls move back to their homes. She turns into a new person free from drugs and other negative things. I am not finished with the book just yet so this is as far as I've gotten. I'm excited to finish this book and learn about the rest of her story. My prediction is that she won't be able to stay away from the party scene, and she will get right back to where she was before. I've only herd positive things from my friends who have read this book before so I expect it to just keep getting better and better.
