Holiday Break Reading Challenge - Day 12 - A Book in Pictures

The challenge for day 12 is to create a summary of the book I'm currently reading using pictures.  I actually just finished a book late yesterday, and I started reading A Storm of Swords (book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire) this morning.  Since I'm only into the prologue of my new book (and it's very complex with lots of characters), I thought Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini.  Unfortunately, I wasn't overly impressed with this book.

 

 



Jeremy Heere is a the quiet, loser of his school.  He keeps tracks of the insults thrown at him by his peers on self-made humiliation sheets.  All he wants is to be with Christine, but she is dating Jake, the popular guy.

 

Jeremy attempts to talk to Christine at play rehearsal.  They are in A Midsummer Night's Dream together.  However, he knows that he can't compete with Jake Dillinger.

 

 

 

Jeremy goes to the Halloween dance to see Christine, but he runs into Rich, a popular boy who has always been mean to him.  Rich tells him that he used to be uncool too, but he got a squip, a nanocomputer that comes in the form a pill.  The computer attaches to the person's brain and helps them become cool.  All Jeremy has to do is pay $600 dollars for his very own squip.

 





 

Jeremy gets the squip and begins to change.  The squip advises him on what clothes to wear, what to say and not say, and how to treat people.  He treats his best friend badly, and almost ends up with gorgeous girls who he really doesn't care about.  He finds that for some reason the squip can't help him get Christine.  Nothing seems to work on her.  He discovers that he has a defective squip when he makes a fool of himself in the play and loses Christine, possibly for good. 

 

The book leaves the reader wondering if Jeremy is able to fix his mistakes and reconcile with Christine. 

While the book was good in places, I had a hard time with it.  It was basically the old story of the loser kid who becomes cool and forgets the things that are truly important.  However, unlike all those stories, Jeremy doesn't really learn anything from his experience.