Tweak by Nic Sheff

So I just finished this one last night. If you've ever felt the temptation to try drugs read this book. It will totally turn you off the idea. Nic Sheff went through solid hell with his meth addiction and he tells us all about it in his memoir Tweak. From homelessness to starvation to much worse things he tells a brutally honest tale of hitting the bottom more than once. His father wrote a companion book called Beautiful Boy which I haven't read but which presumably tells his side of the story.

Nic's story is inspirational but very graphic in many ways...violence, sex, drug use (duh) and it is a nonfiction memoir so this is true stuff. Just something to be aware of when you pick it up.

Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

This book is SOOOOOOOOOOO good. It's all about Steve York, a Senior who might not graduate because he's short one Engish credit (and also smoking a lot of pot). His guidance counselor throws him a line, in the form of a 100 page written assignment on the topic of His Life. If he writes the paper, he gets the credit. Steve chooses to write about how he went from a stellar, all-A's student his first years of high school to a pot-smoking, class-cutting Senior. Steve experiences his first love and his first sexual experience. The twist that is thrown in at the end is so perfectly veiled throughout the book that you won't see it coming and so I'm not going to tell you what it is. READ IT! IT IS AWESOME! Till next time! -Suzanne