Starting Going Bovine

I'm starting to think that I should actually begin this project retroactively. My starting date is now...um, yesterday, September 20, 2009. Which moves my ending date up a week as well. Why this change of heart? I bought the book that's *actually* going to be my first book, Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

I'm still deciding how I'm going to structure this, so bear with me. Let's see how this goes, and we'll go from there.

Title: Going Bovine
Author: Libba Bray
Number of Pages: 480
Short Summary:Can Cameron find what he’s looking for? All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.
How I Came To Own This Book: Bought it
History with the book: I don't have that much of a history with this book...except that I've been waiting for it for nearly two years!! Ever since I finished Libba Bray's last novel, The Sweet Far Thing, I've wanted to read more from her. And then she came up with this idea for a book about a sixteen-year old boy with the human version of Mad Cow disease. I was discussing with the Borders cashier how odd this choice was considering that the last three took place in Victorian England. Though, having read her LiveJournal for over a year now, it's not too surprising.

One of the quotes on the cover says that it's "like discovering an alternate version of The Phantom Tollbooth, where Holden Caulfield has hit Milo over the head and stolen his car, his token, and his tollbooth." Um, AWESOME! And it's descriptions like these that give me hope for the world. When it's possible for one of my favorite books from middle school to be invaded by one of my favorite books from high school by one of my favorite authors from college, I couldn't be more enthusiastic.

Well, now that I switched my starting date, I better get going! Times a wastin'!