# @proseandpucks on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-09-22T21:50:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Miracle (@miraclelucketti) — https://gondola.cc/miraclelucketti

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if the author’s note has me tearing up, i know i’m in for a ride, okay. skater boy did not disappoint.

as a former incredibly angry teenager that kept a lot of shit bottled up inside, i knew i was going to love this book. i am now a very softhearted adult, and i can’t lie, the beginning of this book had me worried i wouldn’t connect with wes because some of the choices he makes? teenagers suck, man. but he’s just so sad and angry and hurt that it broke my heart and i couldn’t help to root for him. it was very quickly apparent wes uses his anger as a way to avoid getting close to others because he was scared of getting hurt, and hello. hi. call me out harder, anthony.

packed with all the angst, anger, and unpredictable mood swings of youth, skater boy takes its reader through wes’ journey of self acceptance. on the outside he’s angry and violent, but on the inside he’s terrified and hurting and i don’t know one teenager, queer or not, that can’t relate to that.

there were so many great moments of seeing wes trying to keep up this front of what he thought a hard “punk” should be and realizing that that’s not what *he* is. i loved following along on his journey of self acceptance, of letting go of the things we have no control over, and falling for a cute boy that does ballet.

also- the chapter titles are absolutely GENIUS and i may or may not have gotten emotional over a relient k refrence. it’s fine. 

also also, this longboard was a birthday gift years ago because i’m obsessed with the andy warhol cow print but i cannot skateboard. the children at the skate park laughed my old ass outta there REAL fast. haha

FINALLY, i loved this book so much meganstags and i decided to have cookies made based on the cover to deliver to anthony at an event in seattle. he’s a GEM.

[slide 1: a white hand holds up a copy of anthony nerada’a skater boy in front of a long board with a skatepark covered in colorful graffiti as a backdrop. slide 2: cookies based on the cover design of the book lie around the book]
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#skaterboy #anthonynerada #novelcookies #sohoteen #emokid #poppunk #queerbooks #bookblog #bookreview #readersofinstagram #queerbookstagrammer #bookstagram

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queerbooks, anthonynerada, readersofinstagram, queerbookstagrammer, skaterboy, bookstagram, bookblog, emokid, poppunk, bookreview, sohoteen, novelcookies

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