{"id":1366,"date":"2009-04-07T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2009-04-08T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:29:42","slug":"the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-an-account-in-words-and-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/07\/the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl-an-account-in-words-and-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-1366\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diary-Teenage-Girl-Account-Pictures\/dp\/1583940634\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1239154643&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Phoebe%20Gloeckner\">Phoebe Gloeckner<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 312 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Frog Books (November 14, 2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1583940634<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1583940631<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love the mix of graphics and story.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a hard book to read from a content perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 Its part graphic novel and its written as the diary or notebook of a 15 year old girl.\u00c2\u00a0 She does drugs.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s sleeping with her mother&#8217;s boyfriend.\u00c2\u00a0 Her mother drinks.\u00c2\u00a0 Her sister is a &#8220;good girl.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The main character, Minnie Goetze, a Jewish girl living in San Francisco, has a fling with a lesbian.\u00c2\u00a0 The cast of characters could be formulaic but its not &#8211; there&#8217;s a gritty and real quality to the writing.\u00c2\u00a0 The comics are generally drawn similarly to R. Crumb.<\/p>\n<p>Its very painful to read but its also a really great read, and the graphics add a great deal to the work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-1366\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 1366);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-1366\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-1366\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures Author: Phoebe Gloeckner Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Frog Books (November 14, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 1583940634 ISBN-13: 978-1583940631 I love the mix of graphics and story.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a hard book to read from a content perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 Its part graphic novel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-phoebe-gloeckner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-m2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}