Trippy

This was a dreamy, trippy experience, Metamorphosis Junior Year. I expected to blow through this short book filled with illustrations, diary entries and poems, but this is kinda like a rich dessert. The kind that looks so small it should take two bites but once you get into it you taste how rich it is and you have to slow down and enjoy. I'm hungry. Anyway, Meta was like that. At first I was frustrated because I couldn't rip through it. Then once I slowed down I realized I wished it was another hundred pages long. Ovid is a junior in high school, hence the title, with a sister lost to drugs. As a result his parents are extra protective with him. They want him to be very conventional and 'normal' but Ovid fears he isn't. Ovid doesn't want to go to a traditional college, he wants to attend art school. He's wildly creative and expresses himself through poetry and art. He uses the Greek myths to describe his family and classmates and himself in poetry. Kinda like how his name sake used the myths to make his own Metamorphosis. I admit I know little about the real Ovid. I can't even swear I ever heard of him but I think I did. Embarrassing, but I want to be honest! Still this book is one I'll remember for a long time.