Me on Waiting on Wednesday (89)

Waiting on Wednesday is a bunch of weekly fun hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. :)

Title: Stealing Parker
Author: Miranda Kenneally
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks

From Goodreads:

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She’s on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she’s made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother’s scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.

Now Parker wants a new life.

So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

But how far is too far before she loses herself completely?

I have this thing with contemporary YA that I haven't actually explained... ever... at all... which is that I don't usually read it because I don't want to read the hard-hitting gritty stuff that'll inevitably make me sad and weepy. I know this isn't, that this is more of a romantic comedy sort of contemporary YA, but still. So, that's the reason why I don't read a lot of contemporary YA unless it's the funny kind.

Like this. I read Catching Parker last week and really liked it. I know a book is good when it makes me laugh out loud and not just in my head. And I like the cover, even if it took me a while to realize that the beige-orange part at the bottom is the dirt of a baseball diamond's infield. *head-desk* And I really like baseball, too.