Sometimes, after a particularly disappointing book, you need to bring in a ringer. Why Girls are Weird is Pamela Ribon’s first novel which was inspired by her early 2000s blog Pamie.com. It is the story of Anna Koval who creates the online persona Anna K to learn HTML and create a collection of funny stories for a friend’s birthday gift. She sprinkles fact and fiction throughout her website, her most deceitful lie is telling her public she is still in a relationship with her ex-boyfriend […]
Notes to Boys by Pamela Ribon
I started reading Pamie.com in high school. It was one of the first online journals I ever followed (back in the dark days of 2003). While the others that I discovered at the time (Velcrometer, Tomato Nation) have fallen off my radar, I still follow everything Pamie writes with a religious fervor. While I, of course, love her fiction, I’ve always like her true stories best. She has mentioned countless times in her blog how she used to write incredibly long letters to boys, letters […]
Confessions of a Teenage Stalker
I don’t follow Pamie.com like I used to, my sister usually forwards me the highlights, but she was one of the first blogs I read way back when. I’ve read all her novels and was pretty excited when her first memoir was announced. Notes to Boys focuses on Pam’s raging hormones while she goes through adolescence in small town Texas. Little Pam (as she affectionately refers to her younger self) is intense. I cannot believe she published some of these letters and poems because they […]