Haddad, S. (2012). Socially awkward. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1466452787 Kindle, $2.99
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Annotation: When Jennifer Smith sets up two facebook profiles as part of her Master's Degree thesis project, she becomes obsessed with reconnecting with her old high school crush. Missing out on every social cue, she struggles to gain perspective and take control of her own life.
Booktalk: Bored? Lonely? Wish you lived a more glamorous life? A thesis project away from finishing her Master’s Degree in Sociology, Jennifer Smith feels like her life is as boring and ordinary as her name. She has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Claire, but this project offers her a look at life from the other side – from Claire’s side. To examine the effect of attractiveness on how people respond to women, Jen creates two online Facebook profiles: a real one for herself and a fake one for the person she wishes she were (an exotic, slim, and beautiful model named Olivia). When her long-time high school crush friends Olivia and begins to pursue her online alter ego, Jen is thrust back into those painfully awkward memories. What should she do? How badly does she want to be with Sean? How far will she take the deception?
Booktalk: Bored? Lonely? Wish you lived a more glamorous life? A thesis project away from finishing her Master’s Degree in Sociology, Jennifer Smith feels like her life is as boring and ordinary as her name. She has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Claire, but this project offers her a look at life from the other side – from Claire’s side. To examine the effect of attractiveness on how people respond to women, Jen creates two online Facebook profiles: a real one for herself and a fake one for the person she wishes she were (an exotic, slim, and beautiful model named Olivia). When her long-time high school crush friends Olivia and begins to pursue her online alter ego, Jen is thrust back into those painfully awkward memories. What should she do? How badly does she want to be with Sean? How far will she take the deception?
“Nothing good ever comes from making up lie after lie to get close to someone. Either tell him the truth and get it over with, or just end the project early.”
I couldn’t bring myself to tell Claire that I’d already started writing the paper based on what I’d learned with Olivia’’s profile so far. … Was I addicted to the freedom of anonymity? To being someone I wasn’t? Was it Sean that was keeping me online? Without the profile, I’d have no tie to him at all. And then what?” (p. 94)
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